CAD Rapid Plastics Prototyping, Plastics, SLA, SLS

Stereolithography, Selective Laser Sintering, RTV Tooling are procedures we use to take care of all aspects of visual and physical plastic part design and functions. Conventional prototyping may take many weeks or months.

Consider the value of using our rapid CAD Plastic Prototyping Processing to give your business a considerable edge even in the most competitive markets. As a manufacturer - maker of cad plastic prototyping - prototypes, by using our plastic prototype machine, we can prove to you that it is actually the prime key to sucess by its implementation being able to shorten your product development time. Imagine obtaining a working full size model of a physical part of your project in much less than a week instead of paying several tens of thousands of dollars and waiting several months.

As a major manufacturer of plastic prototypes, our cad rapid plastic prototyping process is generally much quicker, sometimes in 24 hours. It is more cost effective in building cad aided rapid plastic prototypes or parts using a plastic prototype machine as opposed to conventional methods. Conventional methods can take many weeks and sometimes many months to complete and can be costly. We use Computer-Aided Engineering to create 3D parametric modeling using Pro Engineer and 2D Drafting.

Contact our Plastics Engineering Consultant for more information about items discussed on this page.

The prototyping - Stereolithography (SLA), Selective Layer Sintering (SLS), R.T.V. Tooling ( Rubber Molding/Urethane Casting ) is fast and affordable. RTV molding and urethene casting provide very economical ways of producing multiple parts.

These various plastics procedures that we use, enable us to deliver a unique, finished product, completely assembled, decorated, packaged, to ship to you usually in a few days, instead of months.

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General: 3D Printing or "how do you make a knob".

Do you have a plastic volume control knob missing from your Harmon Kardon stereo radio/TV set? Can't find it? Why don't you make one? In the future, you just might be able to do just that. How? You print it and then install it.

You print it. That's right, you print it. Not with paper and ink, but actual, layer by layer, using a range of materials, such as plastic, powder, and even metal, in a way that binds these materials together to form solid objects.

An exact description of 3D printing is somewhat elusive because several methods may be used; but most 3D printers stack thin layers of a material to form a 3D object in much the same way that a dot-matrix printer or an ink jet printer creates an image on a page. Your printer just keeps printing over the page area where it last printed to lay down a little more ink to raise the ink further away from the paper. Do it long enugh and you get a three dimensional image. Substitute plastic for ink and in the end you can hold your creation.

The process has been around for perhaps 30 years. It has had a relatively low profile almost unknown. The reason for this was the high initial cost of the printer. Also the printer being used during that day and age was subject to creating relatively low quality of the finished product.

What we do at MBT is a process called 3D rapid plastic prototyping, and is an essential tool enabling designers to quickly and easily produce a small working sample product that can be tested, tweaked if necessary and re-printed all within a matter of hours or a day. Contact our plastics engineering consultant to assist you.

3D printers print physical objects such as a cell phone shell, a wrench of any type, small raised objects, a plastic business card with movable gears on it, a small cereal dish or anything of a physical nature that you can dream up. Some of those objects that we do as representative items are shown at the immediate left on this page.

Here is how it works in just a few sentences. One of these printers that works with plastic lays down thousands of layers of acrylic-based resin or rubber or plastic on top of one another until the object is formed. All of this is controlled by a computer responding to a CAD program or what now could be called an "app" giving directions to a printer.

It takes just a few hours after you feed the CAD information to the printer for your creation to become a real item you can hold and admire in maybe just a day, instead of in several months.