Epoxy and Silicone Molds are popular
RapidMade Advantages:
- Reduce Cost
- Decrease Lead Times
- Keep Intellectual Property in the US
- One Stop Shop for Design, Tooling and MFG
- Unprecedented Ease and Design Freedom
Types of Available Tooling and Parts:
Epoxy and Silicone Molds
- Tooling in days, not months
- Reduces investment costs for short run production
- Lower material costs than 3D Printing
- Reusable tooling allows for many castings
- Many available casting materials, including but not limited to: Urethane, epoxy, polyester, medical and food grade resins, plaster, and many other resins and composite materials
Injection Molds and Inserts
- Injection mold tooling in days to weeks, not months
- Very inexpensive part cost
- Tool life from 10k+ unit from prototype tooling to hundreds of thousands of units from production tooling
- Top quality aesthetic finish and mechanical properties compared to other Rapid Prototype technologies
Sand Casting Patterns
- Least expensive way to fabricate quantities of small to large metal parts
- Typical materials are aluminum, bronze, zinc and steel
- Tooling can be produced in less than 1 - 2 weeks and cost a fraction of traditional methods
- Capable suppliers of core boxes, follow boards, gates and risers and other necessary sand cast tooling
- Unit production in days, not weeks
Investment Cast Patterns, Molds and Waxes
- Highest quality of finish of all casting methods
- Typical materials include aluminum, bronze and steel
- Available tooling includes: master patterns, silicone rubber molds, and wax burnout patterns
- Can direct print one-off or small batches of direct burnout patterns without investing wax tooling
Vacuum and Thermoform Tooling
- Heavy gauge production plastics available like ABS, Polyethylene, Polystyrene and Polycarbonate
- Light gauge packaging plastics available like PET and Polystyrene
- Can form parts up to 12 feet long
- Prototype tooling available in as little as a couple of days
- Production tooling is good for over 100,000 forms and is porous for highest part quality
Carbon Fiber, Fiberglass and Other Composite Tools
- Decrease tooling and mold lead time compared to traditional methods
- Increase complexity of design without increasing cost
- Soluble cores available for hollow parts
- Waxed finishes available for easy de-molding
- Save money on prototype and production tools
Sheet Metal Stamping and Forming Tools
- Very low cost tooling for small batches of sheet metal parts
- Male and female tooling available for traditional two die stamping as well as single die hydro-forming
- Tools delivered in a fraction of the time compared to traditional methods
- Inexpensive and durable composite tooling available as castings from pattern
Robotic Arm End Effectors
- Custom tooling that fits any part with complex internal geometries like vacuum channels
- Reduce weight, inertia and material waste during fabrication
- Simplified designs are easier to engineer, manufacture and assemble - cutting down on cost and time for tooling fabrication
- Improve tool life by cutting down on breakable components
Molded Paper Pulp Packaging Tools
- Get high accuracy tooling for a fraction of the cost of machined tools
- Prototype tooling can also be used as permanent tooling good for thousands or even tens of thousands of molds
- Tools can be turned around in days instead of weeks
- Tools can be used as patterns to make tooling for multiple lines or facillities
Custom Jigs, Clamps, Fixtures and Other Tooling
- Most miscellaneous tooling can be fabricated rapidly and for less cost using additive manufacturing
- Use existing CAD data for the part to design mating tooling
- Quickly test for geometric conformity or hold parts for post operations or inspection
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