Design is a matter of balance: weight vs. strength, cost vs. quality, speed vs. accuracy, and so on. As development progresses, prototyping is an essential part of the balancing process, and ...

A critical phase during product design and development is verification of your design. Design verification can be attained either by simulation or prototyping. Prototyping is usually the preferred ...

In the previous article on this topic, I stated the importance of prototyping during product design and development to verify your design. I reviewed the many plastic prototyping options available to ...

Melker of Sweden's new Värmdö kayak. Prototypes are how companies measure if a new product will sink or swim. At Melker of Sweden, a sport kayak maker, they take this product development stage quite ...

A new rapid prototyping machine additively builds parts that end up looking as if they were injection molded. The ZBuilder Ultra from Z-Corp., Burlington, Mass., makes components using a digital light ...