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I thought that Rapid Prototyping was about stacking thin layers of material: how can DeskProto that uses CNC milling be called Rapid Prototyping ?

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I thought that Rapid Prototyping was about stacking thin layers of material: how can DeskProto that uses CNC milling be called Rapid Prototyping ?

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Some people indeed do define Rapid Prototyping as a technology to produce prototypes by adding material (Additive RP), which does exclude CNC milling as there material is removed (Subtractive RP). However, in our opinion this definition is incorrect: Rapid Prototyping is about creating a physical prototype: (1) from 3D CAD data, (2) Rapidly and (3) Automatically. The actual process used does not matter and will be a kind of black-box to the designer.