HP Jet Fusion Delivers Injection Mold Quality without the Mold

3D printed part

Mold no more!  For small and medium-batch production runs, slash cut part cost and accelerate delivery speed with HP Jet Fusion:

• No tooling costs
• Limitless iterations
• Design freedom
• Lower engineering costs
• Collapsed delivery timelines
• Production-quality parts

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RapidMade Expands Services Offered

3D Printing, Manufacturing and Engineering

RapidMade's services now include:

Product Design and Engineering

• Simple static part design to fully automated mechanical and electrical equipment
• Design for prototyping and manufacture
• In-house prototyping capabilities for faster iterations and overnight customer feedback
• 2D and 3D drawings, tolerance and other manufacturing specifications, technology transfer and patent application documentation, equipment manuals, FDA and other compliance as well as other specialized engineering work

Rapid Prototyping

• 3D printing, quick-turn machining, traditional metal and plastic forming, short-run castings
• Thermoset and thermoplastic manufacturing, hard and soft metals, composites available
• Full-color concept models, functional prototypes, assembly and embedded electronics
• Quotes generally in under 24 hours, parts in days

Contract Manufacturing

• Production quantities ranging from one to tens of thousands
• A multitude of available manufacturing processes 
• Expertise in selecting the right manufacturing process for you
• Personalized attention to detail and top quality customer service
• Tooling and part library for easy re-orders

3D Scanning and Reverse Engineering

• Extremely high accuracy 3D digitization of parts as a reproducible STL file
• Available reverse engineering to create fully defined parametric files and 2D dimensioned drawings
• Inspection of manufactured goods to identify deviation from the original design
• Full-color scans also available

Industrial Pattern and Toolmaking

• Highly accurate tools in days, not months - at a lower cost
• Patterns and tools available for all standard manufacturing processes: Injection molding, urethane casting, sand and investment casting, sheet metal stamping, plastic forming and much more
• Additional finishing capabilities available

Displays, Exhibits and Promotions

• Full color 3D printing can be done as quickly as under 24 hours
• Print directly from renderings in CAD or BIM modeling software
• Great for architecture, store display and marketing customers
• Very fine feature detail and beautiful aesthetic quality

Finishing and Coating

• A wide range of finish options including paint, powder coat, plating, media blast, tumbling and much more
• Clear coat and dyed plastic available for cost effective finishing of prototypes and manufactured goods

Use RapidMade to Rapidly Make Industrial Patterns and Tools

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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