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Rapid Tooling: Faster, Better, and Less Expensive

Don’t think of rapid tooling purely for prototyping or short runs. Additive tech is making it possible to produce steel tools that have decided benefits for injection molding and die casting.

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Processes

The Time Compression Processes Zone includes information on the major manufacturing processes employed in rapid product development. That obviously includes classical rapid prototyping and manufacturing processes such as 3-D printing, fused deposition modeling, selective laser sintering and stereo lithography to make parts and tooling. But it also includes the use of more traditional processes deployed in a rapid product development mode such as machining, casting, injection molding and others. The Processes Zone also includes much on reverse engineering processes, practices, software and equipment.