Exponentially grow your toolbox by learning to make molds with a low-cost 3D printer.

Make the mold out of the right material. Mayku recommends that production molds be printed in nylon, which stands up best to the heat and stress a thermoforming mold will be put under.

We’re accustomed to covering the use of 3D printing in casting, usually as a lost-PLA former in metal casting. That’s not the only use of the technique though, and perhaps one of the simplest ...

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Mold 3D printing helps automate composite bathtub, shower production As part of its efforts to automate as much of its production process as it can, Lyons Industries acquired a Massivit 10000 additive ...

Making composite parts from 3D printed paper molds Honda made autoclave-capable molds at one-tenth the cost of CNC-machined metal using Mcor's SDL technology.

Around 2015, headlines about 3D printing reached a fever pitch. But here we are, a few years later and not a headline is in sight. 3D printing’s superhero era has given way to practical use ...

COOKFOX designer Pam Campbell and Gate Precast's Mo Wright discuss the use of 3D-printed molds from Oak Ridge National Lab to create unitized window panels for One South First, a ...

Printing fixtures, jigs, and molds can be an indirect way of using 3D printing to expand your toolbox. In part one we printed the molds; in this part we will print a part to make the mold with.