The application of computer has greatly changed the technological means of jewelry design, change the procedures and methods of jewelry design. Application of rapid prototyping technology with high precision, high efficiency in jewelry design, shorten the jewelry product development cycle, reduce the cost, improve the product designquality
The amount of. Application of rapid prototyping technology in jewelry design, jewelry design is the development trend of the information age.
Due to the rapid development of computer and the popularization, jewelry design into a new information age. On the one hand, the application of computer has greatly changed the technological means, jewelry design procedure and method. On the other hand, high technology represented by computer technology opened a jewelry design
New field. The advanced technology must be combined with the excellent design, can make the humanization of technique, the real service to humanity. Jewelry design topromote high-tech progress, especially the rapid prototyping technology has played a great role in promoting.
A, rapid prototyping technology overview
Rapid prototyping technology is a new technology developed in twentieth Century 90’s. It is based on the principle of dispersion and accumulation, the CAD model of part by means of discrete, become the discrete surface, discrete linear, discrete point can be processed, and then uses the physical or chemical means, these
The discrete surface, line and point accumulation overall shape parts. The specific method, based on the 3D CAD model of part, after the format conversion, by slicingthe, the cross-section of two dimensional contour shape. According to the outlineshape, with a laser beam to selectively
Curing liquid photosensitive resin layer, or cutting paper or metal foil layers, or sintered layers of powder materials, and the spray adhesive or hot melt materialinjection source selectively, the formation of the cross section contour shape, and gradually added into three-dimensional parts. Fast
Quick forming technology is different from the traditional "removal" processing method, it is to use a new "growth" processing method, namely the first point and linea layer of "thin hair dry body", and then use the multilayer sheet gradually added intocomplex shape parts. The basic principle of rapid prototyping is the complex of three
Dimensional processing into a simple superposition of two dimensional processing, so it is also called the "layered manufacturing". At present, the main method of rapid prototyping are: laser curing (SLA); selective laser sintering (SLS); laser laminatedmoulding (LOM); fused deposition modeling (FDM).
Two, application of rapid prototyping technology in jewelry business
At present, in the jewelry industry in the rapid prototyping machine main application:the laser molding machine America Solidscape company MEIKO T6X series, the Japanese, their work principle is the use of fused deposition modeling method (FDM).Solidscape company T6X series using spray wax type construction
Die technology, in which two wax injection device of different, can eject thermoplasticplastic construction materials and supporting materials. The laser forming machine ofMEIKO company of Japan is the raw material of resin, resin mold which produced can be directly pressed sizing model.
T6X series device America solidscape T66 in the equipment, process jewelry the original as follows:
1 using the CAD design software to establish 3-D graphics jewelry ornament;
2 the graphics file conversion for the rapid prototyping software can handle STL file format;
3 rapid prototyping data processing software slicing model (section cut out all the highplane);
Treatment of each section 4, find the need to support the location, shape and forms asupport;
5 with the appropriate parameters of each section is filled, so as to form a thin layerwith a certain thickness on the nozzle movement under MII;
6 will handle the device driver of data passed to the MII, started in rapid prototyping manufacturing;
7 until the model is finished, the wax is removed in the heating chamber, baking,temperature is higher than the red wax melting point, rather than green wax with low melting point, so the red wax melting, and green wax does not change. The melt endred wax model in special cleaning solution cleaning, removal of residual red wax, after drying
To obtain the green wax is complete, can be directly used for investment casting.
Compared with the traditional production of jewelry design, rapid prototypingtechnology has the following characteristics:
1 greatly shorten new product development cycle, speed up product time to market;
2 multiplied to reduce the cost of developing new products;
3, increase the success rate of production of new products;
4 support synchronous (parallel) project;
5 support technological innovation, improve product appearance design.
Interaction between the three, rapid prototyping and jewelry design development
Jewelry design is different from other design, it is designed a material entity stereo, at different stages of design, the specific ideas on renderings test no entity body, must be supplemented by a three-dimensional model for the design scheme to constantly monitor and modify. The traditional jewelry design
Method is: designers use the method of hand draw three views and renderings, playversion of the division by sawing, filing, welding and other traditional crafts Handmade.The version is the most important part of jewelry manufacturing process, only throughfrom the master version of Handmade to designers
The drawings into real, since version is directly related to the quality of quality jewelryproducts. Application of rapid prototyping technology to replace the traditional manual model making can be more precise, fast, intuitive, complete the delivery of productinformation. The more important is to establish a concurrent design system structure
System, design, structure analysis, optimization of manufacturing three-in-oneintegrated in a system, the division of the personnel can timely feedback information,so as to shorten the development cycle, and ensure high quality design,manufacturing.
Jewelry design is technology, art and market a combination of science, advanced technology to promote design and development, developed in recent years will berapid prototyping technology to promote the jewelry design is a major step forward. In the information age, jewelry design from the design, model making by computer
Integration of highly flexible, CAD model driven directly, the forming process of theinformation process and material process integration, so that the heterogeneousmaterial prototype; rapid forming technology, highly integrated advantages, the rapid prototyping technology to high precision, high efficiency, low cost to manufacturethese
Model. At the same time, because of the professional characteristics of the designitself, jewelry design will be forming space of rapid prototyping technology andequipment, the molding material, software compatibility and other aspects of the new requirements, jewelry design will also promote the rapid prototyping technology"redesign" procedure, jewelry
Design and rapid prototyping technology will eventually form a benign interaction development. The rapid development of computer technology and the popularizationand the rapid development of the Internet, make jewelry design is a significant change of hitherto unknown. Jewelry design to promote high-tech progress, especially therapid prototyping
Technology plays a great role in promoting.
High and new technology has opened up a new field, jewelry design on the one hand,the application of rapid prototyping technology with high precision, high efficiency in jewelry design, shorten the jewelry product development cycle, reduce cost, improve product design quality. On the other hand, jewelry design because of its own
The characteristics of the new requirements of the rapid prototyping technology.Application of rapid prototyping technology in jewelry design is the development trend of jewelry design in information age.