COMPARISON OF GEOMETRIC PRECISION OF PLASTIC COMPONENTS MADE BY SUBTRACTIVE AND ADDITIVE METHODS

Abstract

The paper presents information on manufacturing processes of plastic components. Basic subtractive and additive methods are described. There were also manufactured elements of fan housing by using this two types of methods. Then, the elements were measured using a touch probe. The obtained results were analyzed, on which a comparison of components’ geometric accuracy was performed.

Keywords

• rapid prototyping
• Fused Deposition Modelling
• machining
• touch probe measurement
• points cloud