Met-L-Flo Case Study: Metal Prototypes
Posted by Rapid Product Development at 4/1/2009 4:37 PM 
Categories: News
Tags: Direct Digital Manufacturing DDM SLS Met-L-Flo
Categories: News
Tags: Direct Digital Manufacturing DDM SLS Met-L-Flo
Direct Digital Manufacturing
The best application for DDM products are those with complex geometries. Direct Metal systems enable metal parts to be made very quickly. This includes geometries that cannot be made conventionally, or made cost effectively using traditional manufacturing methods.
Investment Casting / QuickCast®
The QuickCast® method allows you to rapidly build highly accurate patterns that bypass tooling for metal parts. All types of parts can be produced with this technique.
Lost Wax Casting and Rubber Plaster
These methods are great for small and preproduction runs. Additive Manufactured patterns are widely used to get high quality parts quickly and in a variety of metals.
Sand Casting
Sand casting is a very good process that can use Additive Manufactured patterns to accelerate the production process.
The best application for DDM products are those with complex geometries. Direct Metal systems enable metal parts to be made very quickly. This includes geometries that cannot be made conventionally, or made cost effectively using traditional manufacturing methods.
The QuickCast® method allows you to rapidly build highly accurate patterns that bypass tooling for metal parts. All types of parts can be produced with this technique.
Lost Wax Casting and Rubber Plaster
These methods are great for small and preproduction runs. Additive Manufactured patterns are widely used to get high quality parts quickly and in a variety of metals.
Sand Casting
Sand casting is a very good process that can use Additive Manufactured patterns to accelerate the production process.
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ProtoCAM offers quick turnaround metal prototypes and rapid prototyping for metal parts. Depending on material, timing requirements, critical dimensions and post-machining operations, there are several different methods that can be used to satisfy your metal prototyping requirements. Selective laser sintering (SLS), investment castings, plaster castings, sand castings and CNC machining are the most common methods to manufacture rapid metal prototypes.
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Direct Digital Manufacturing is an extension of Rapid Prototyping to produce greater quantities of parts. As of 2007, the required machines have become practical in price, speed, reliability, and cost of use. This has led to the expansion of their use in industry. There has been explosive growth in the sales and distribution of the hardware. A new industry has emerged to create software to enable more effective use of the technology. Also, the number of materials that the machines can process has increased greatly in the decade to 2007.Modern machines can utilize a broad array of plastics & metals.
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Good post.Depending on material, timing requirements, critical dimensions and post-machining operations, there are several different methods that can be used to satisfy your metal prototyping requirements.
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The most common type of metal prototyping is aluminum casting. Rapid prototype aluminum castings can be created using investment casting, sand casting or plaster casting.
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ProtoCAM offers quick turnaround metal prototypes and rapid prototyping for metal parts. Depending on material, timing requirements, critical dimensions and post-machining operations, there are several different methods that can be used to satisfy your metal prototyping requirements.
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Good post....ProtoCAM does metal coating on plastic prototypes created from other rapid prototyping techniques such as SLA, urethane casting, and injection molding. Typical metal coated prototypes are plated with nickel, copper, and chrome.
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There are several different methods that can be used to satisfy your metal prototyping requirements. Selective laser sintering (SLS), investment castings, plaster castings, sand castings and CNC machining are the most common methods to manufacture rapid metal prototypes.
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Metal Prototype - ProtoCAM provides rapid metal prototyping services.
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Trident Steels handles a wide variety of metals, such as stainless steels, wear-resistant steels & so on, to produce top-quality Stainless Steel Investment Castings in all common alloys.
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I hear they are now offering DMLS - Direct Metal Laser Sintering for Metal Prototypes!
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