162. What is rapid prototyping?What use is it?
Rapid prototyping is a fast, flexible, interactive software development methodology, it is to adapt to the current advances in computer technology and the tremendous demand for software growth occurs. Rapid prototyping of the core is interactive, fast The prototype built to replace the forms, stiff (not easy to modify) specifications, users actually running on the computer and try to develop the prototype and provide real feedback.
Rapid Prototyping (Rapid Prototyping, referred to as RP) is in this social context, was born in 1988 in the United States, quickly spread to Europe and Japan, and introduced into China in the early nineties.
Comprehensive application of rapid prototyping technology of modern technology, directly and quickly design data into the computer kind, the image that, rapid prototyping technology to achieve the so-called "all wishes come true" dream. Rapid prototyping technology has been widely used in manufacture of rapid conceptual model (such as tests designed to look good the product looks nice, trendy not trendy), rapid test model manufacturing (such as inspection of the product is good or bad design, performance, how), Rapid Tooling (direct manufacture of molds) and fast functional parts (direct manufacture of parts) and other fields.