On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Bill Noack wrote:
> simulate an elastomer of 40 or 50 durometer. Is anyone developing or
> currently selling something without going through a soft tooling
Dear Bill,
On a recent trip to Japan, I saw some really interesting soft,
flexible material fabricated on a commercial laser curing (i.e.
SLA-like) device. The material is not yet commercial, and won't likely be
available in the US for quite some time, which is a pity.
In my sample bag, I have a piece of "spongey" material that I got
from DTM several years ago, made on the Sinterstation. But I've never seen
anything about a commercial offering of this material or technique.
Du Pont, of course, has their flexible resin, but it is rather on the
hard side. Your inquiry is a good one, I believe there will be quite a
future for automated fabrication in flexible materials, as they come on
the market.
Best regards,
Marshall Burns
marshall@ennex.com
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