Henri,
Soligen uses a method called DSPC (direct shell production casting) to cast
metal parts. We print a ceramic shell directly from a STL file. Castings in
aluminum, magnesium, stainless steel, brass, bronze, and most other alloys are
all possible using this patternless method. Our success stories can be found on
our web site, http://www.soligen.com. This method can also create tooling for
sand casting and permanent mold casting. In addition to patterns, DSPC allows
us to print ceramic cores for multiple design verifications without the expense
of creating and modifying production tooling. Some metal castings made using
DSPC are mulit-cylinder heads, intake manifolds, impellers, valve bodies and
engine blocks.
Sincerely,
Robert Welther
Soligen, Inc.
Henri Koukka wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'd like to know different ways to get metal parts/moulds using rp (direct
> or indirect). Process chains how parts were done would help me lot. Here
> follows exampeles...
>
> Wax pattern (rp) -> investment casting
> Direct Aim mould -> injection moulding of waxes -> investment casting
> Sand cores and cavities (SLS, EOSINT S) -> sand casting
> SLS of metals
> Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS)
> etc.
>
> These were quite familiar examples. Let me know your wildest ideas how to
> get metal parts. If you have any succes stories about your projects on the
> web let me know...
>
> Cheers
> Henri
>
> PS. The (ultimate) list about rp-methods I've been gathering can be found
> on http://ltk.hut.fi/~koukka/RP/rptree.html . Thanks for all those friends
> (especially Elaine, Marshall, Juergen, Ray, Dave, Wei Feng...) who helped
> me when I created it. If you feel there is some absencies on the list tell
> it to the mouse at the end of the page.
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