Shape Deposition Manufacturing

It's called Shape Deposition Manufacturing. (At least by some people.)

Here's a Stanford Lab that's done a lot of work on it.

http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/biomimetics/ http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/biomimetics/sdm.html

http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/bin/view/Rise/ShapeDepositionManufacturing

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It's a very cool subject which we'd be very happy to have under the RepRap umbrella. It would mean lots of tiny gears, or gears which mesh nicely etc.

Here is a google scholar search on "shape deposition manufacturing" http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=shape+deposition+manufacturing&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2001&as_sdtp=on

Let me know if you guys want me to give SDM its own forum.