CAD CAM System for Manufacturing Innovative Hybrid Design Using 3D Printing

Additive manufacturing, commonly referred to as 3D printing, or layer manufacturing is a very dynamically developing direction in the development of manufacturing technology. The article presents considerations on the possibilities of using 3D printing technology for the production of prototypes of innovative solutions. The special advantage of using 3D printing relies in its ability to produce directly based on the CAD model, whose file is the source of information for generating the incremental control file. The article presents an example of 3D printing using the FDM method, in order to produce a special element of a hybrid structure using ready-made metal elements. It was pointed out that the use of 3D printing makes it possible to finish the elements. It has been pointed out that the specific features of 3D printing were developed with CAM software based on CAD model, which adapts to the capabilities of this technique. Geomagic as CAD software and Sli3R as CAM software are the usual choices. An example of 3D printed part for special hybrid design, made using metallic normal elements is presented.