What is Plaster Mold?
Plaster mold casting is a prototype manufacturing process for simulated die-castings. Although there are several variations of this process, it usually begins with a master shape of the die-casting. […]
What is Electroforming?
Electroforming involves electroplating a thick shell (several millimeters thick) onto a master pattern. Before plating can commence, the surface must be made electrically conductive. […]
What are Cast Aluminum and Zinc Kirksite Tooling?
For higher production volumes and more aggressive polymers, it is critical that the tool material has a high degree of mechanical hardness. […]
What is Investment Cast Tooling?
Some companies have used investment casting with RP models to produce metal tooling. Most of the tools cast so far have been in aluminum, […]
What is 3D Keltool?
The 3D Keltool process typically starts with a CAD design of the core and cavity mold inserts, followed by the creation of the core and cavity patterns with stereolithography or some other RP process. […]
Five-Axis CAM Software Considerations
With five-axis machining, the problems of 3+2-axis machining are not removed; they have been shifted from the programmer to the CAM system. […]
What is Flexibility in five-axis cam software?
Flexibility in five-axis milling strategies is an important feature to consider. If one is using a three-axis CAM package with several milling strategies, […]
What is Reliability in five-axis cam software?
Reliability of the five-axis cutter paths is critically important. With the addition of the two rotation motions in five-axis the chance for collisions greatly increases, […]
Five-Axis CAM Software need ease of use
Ease of use and five-axis programming were once thought to be mutually exclusive. Traditionally, five-axis programming was considered difficult, time-consuming and extremely interactive. […]
What are the Five-Axis Machine Limitations?
Five-axis machine limitations can affect how one chooses to perform five-axis machining on a mold. CAM software must be able to simulate the particular five-axis machine and adjust the cutter paths to avoid running into a rotational limit. If a particular five-axis machine has a limit on the c-axis, […]