Look ahead: silicone mold production will accelerate the model to create a new pattern!

Rapid tooling manufacturing technology (RT) is to adapt to the market demand, can quickly and easily make tools and tooling of a new technology. Rapid prototyping technology based on rapid prototyping technology is a new technology developed in the late 1980s. It is a combination of the traditional method and the rapid prototyping technology. Compared with the traditional technology, the rapid tooling technology from the product development and design to the production of the prototype model, until the product mold manufacturing, product production has shown great superiority.

From the ancient handmade to the later CAD drawing, and then to the present RT, its development will form an integrated manufacturing system.

The rapid tooling technology is suitable for China's national conditions, and has broad application prospects. Compared with the high speed milling process, it has the advantage in the surface with fine complex shape and the electric spark machining.

According to the mold material, the production cost, the RP prototype material, the production batch, the mold precision request has developed many kinds of technical method. At present, the method of rapid tooling is generally based on the indirect method and direct method, and the method of rapid tooling based on RP is more indirect. According to different materials, mold molding method indirectly produced a soft mold the bridge mold and die.

Soft mode (tooling soft) is generally refers to the silicone rubber mold. With SLA, FDM, LOM or SLS technology, such as the production of the prototype, and then turned into a silicone rubber mold, the two parts of the mold after the infusion of polyurethane, curing, that is, to get the required parts. Bridge mode (tooling bridge) is generally referred to as the direct injection molding of epoxy resin mold. Compared with the traditional injection mold with epoxy resin, the cost is only a fraction of the traditional method, and the production cycle is greatly reduced. Die life than steel, but higher than the silica gel, up to 5000 ~ 1000, to meet the needs of small and medium volume production. Die hard tooling) usually refers to is a steel mould, namely indirect manufacturing metal mold and using rapid prototyping direct machining of metal mold.