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I’m curious about the rapid prototyping. Little Armory
http://www.littlearmory.com made items in the past by hand making a master.
But a new round of items is coming that I had suspected where being designed
via some form of CAD and then mastered via something that I had seen at JPL a
number of years ago that was used to make visual prototypes of parts via
resin from CAD models. How much would it cost to just make one set of
masters that could then be used for traditional injecting molding?
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Hi Bruce,
Although I am sure Darrell would be in a better position to answer this than me,
I’ll try anyway. From what I can gathered, I think the rapid prototyping which
Darrell was talking about, is NOT the same method which Jeff uses to produce his
prototype armors and stuffs. For rapid prototyping, if indeed it is the same
thing which my friend once dabbled in with our custom-modified Gundam models
(yes, I honed my sculpting skill with my Gundams), then you’d need to have an
actual, ‘master’ object which the computer can duplicate according the ‘space’
that your item is taking up within the scanner (I think it works like a vaccumm
or something). Whereas to make something straight from a CAD program, it’d
involve a different process in which a chunk of plastic (or wood) would be
placed inside a machine, and then the computer would cut it layer by layer
according to the data it reads from the CAD program (I think this method was
featured in one of the Jurassic Park movies); you should also know that not
every plastic manufacturers have this relatively advance technology (mine
doesn’t), but I’m sure it’d be ultra expensive.
Hope that helps, and may Darrell correct me if I got any of the information
wrong.
Rgds,
Red Bean
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