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A Bottom-up Design Framework for CAD Tools to Support Design for Additive Manufacturing

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Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2016 (SDM 2016)

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Additive manufacturing (AM) technology is enabling a platform to produce parts with enhanced shape complexity. Design engineers are exploiting this capability to produce high performance functional parts. The current top-down approach to design for AM requires the designer to develop a design model in CAD software and then use optimization tools to adapt the design for the AM technology, however this approach neglects a number of desired criteria. This paper proposes an alternative bottom-up design framework for a new type of CAD tool which combines the knowledge required to design a part with evolutionary programming in order to design parts specifically for the AM platform.

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The authors would like to kindly thank the University of Bath’s doctoral training studentship and the EPSRC (EP/N005910/1) for their help and financial support in this project.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, Bath, UK

    Steven Goguelin, Joseph Michael Flynn & Vimal Dhokia

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  1. Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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  2. Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Dorset, United Kingdom

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Engg, Rm S1.04, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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Goguelin, S., Flynn, J.M., Dhokia, V. (2016). A Bottom-up Design Framework for CAD Tools to Support Design for Additive Manufacturing. In: Setchi, R., Howlett, R., Liu, Y., Theobald, P. (eds) Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2016. SDM 2016. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 52. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32098-4_35

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