Dan Davis wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Is anyone out there willing to share a method for adding a leather grain
> pattern to a finished SLA part to be used as an RTV tool pattern? We
> are trying to replicate the grain for a piece of hard plastic auto
> interior trim.
Hi Dan:
I know one automitive manufacturer who had been doing something similar
by integrating vacuum forming with RTV molding. The first step is to
make a vacuum form tool and use sheet plastic with pre-existing leather
texture. Then you can attach various clips (produced using SLA or other
methods) to the formed part. The combined model is then used as a
pattern for an RTV mold.
Also, our ESPOR technology can copy existing textured patterns into
micro-porous air-permeable aluminum molds for production thermoforming.
Best regards,
Michael Tsenter
-- NEST Technologies 3849 Ridgemoor Drive Studio City, California 91604Tel: 818-761-6500 Fax: 818-761-6116 e-mail: nest@primenet.com web site: http://www.primenet.com/~nest/
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