Masuo:
Whether the part is large or small - each rapid tooling case is unique and
therefore may lend itself as impossible (practically) for anything other
than traditional tooling.
For example, you may be able to cast an injection capable tool for most of
the part (say the outside of the dash) but because of the inside detail, so
many inserts are required - you wind up being better off just tooling via
traditinal means. I'm sure you already know this but it bears repeating.
It's not to say you couldn't utilize RT. I've seen some very large and
intricate parts molded in tools from CEMCON. Have you checked them out?
Here's the web page (I think): http://www.cemcom.com/prod01.htm
Regards,
Brad Fox
At 01:13 PM 5/1/98 +0900, you wrote:
>Dear Mr.Dickens and my colleagues,
>
>In Japan, there's the need for the large parts prototypes such as dash board
>and bumper.
>Since they cannot believe the reliability of CAE, they prefer to have the
>parts made by real plastics.
>Sometime they use the vacuum casting which is just used for their initial
>concept models but, they usually build the prototype injection tool to
>inject the real plastics although it cost them 60-70% of the real tool, and
>always look for the cheaper way of prototyping.
>Is there anyone who can suggest the solution for this kind of needs ?
>They're not satisfied with urethane vacuum casting but as far as I know
>there's no good injection tool like epoxy tool to inject the large size
>parts like dash board.
>Any suggestion is highly appreciated.
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