Rapid Prototyping?
Rapid Prototyping?
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Once you have a model on Pro/e and a STL file, what is the next step to have a prototype of your model? If functional, the part would be an injection molded plastic hub cap no bigger than 10".
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RE: Rapid Prototyping?
Then he could go ahead an form the part.
My experience with rapid prototyping has not been happy. My parts were extemely brittle, could not function. Any attempt to make them smoother shattered them. Vendor re-did the parts once, same problems.
Does this help?
Pat ttp://www.aquasite.com/skonkworks
RE: Rapid Prototyping?
Insideman is correct if you want a non-functional STL part. The purpose of an STL part is to "feel and see" the part in real life - it is NOT intended to be functional. If you want a functional model you would have to talk to a prototyping house that could make you a mold. One other option is to have the part machined out of a chunk of plastic. This would be a better working model to test in your applications and may or may not be cheaper than a single cavity mold (depends on material and geometry).
Good luck to you.
Dave
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you may find a rapid prototyping vendor using same system close to you.
Hope this will help.
Mesut
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The next step would be to go to alu tooling.
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A good tip is to do a few designs or variations as it will cost very little extra to do multiple SLAs as long as they are of similar depth.