Rapid Tooling – techniques of rapid production tools and prototype series

Rapid Prototyping - Rapid Tooling - Rapid Manufacturing

A Process for Solvent Welded Rapid Prototype Tooling

Rapid prototyping is widely seen as an effective tool for compressing time to market for new products. The typical process followed by industrial and mechanical design groups is to model a new product in a CAD system, rapidly prototype the component parts, use the parts as patterns for RTV silicone molds, and then cast polyurethane prototype parts from the molds. These prototype components are ...

Tools and techniques for rapid porting

Charlie Dolan, from Hughes Research Laboratories, discussed some of the difficulties in using trainable components in an information extraction system. The UMass/Hughes system used six different trainable components in their MUC5 system ; portability between the EJV and EME domains was achieved partl y through retraining these components. One of these components, the Trainable Template Generato...

Rapid Fabrication of Functional Mouthguard Using Rapid Tooling Approach

This paper presents the fabrication process of custom-made mouthguard with added features of air flow channel by using rapid tooling approach. Impression process was conducted in order to produce dental stone that will be used in thermoforming process to fabricate the custom-made mouthguard. Computer-aided design (CAD) were utilized to prepare the air flow channel’s design before attaching it a...

Rapid Tooling for Producing Stretch-formed Jewelry

In this paper, Computer Aided Designing (CAD) in conjunction with Rapid Tooling is applied to design and produce forming tools (punch and die) for stretch-formed jewelry (generated on thin sheet metal on top of which jewelry patterns are raised with forming tools by stretching the sheet metal beyond its elastic limit. The work presents a parametric voxel based CAD paradigm for modeling of such ...