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This chapter discusses how additive manufacturing can be used to develop tooling solutions. Although AM is not well suited to high-volume production in a direct digital manufacturing sense, it does have some benefit when producing volume production tools. This can be from the perspective of using AM to create patterns for parts that are required using materials or properties not currently available using AM or for longer run tooling where AM may be able to simplify the process chain. Commonly referred to as rapid tooling, we discuss here how AM can contribute to the product manufacturing processes.
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Gibson, I., Rosen, D., Stucker, B. (2015). Rapid Tooling. In: Additive Manufacturing Technologies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2113-3_18
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