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Do you need prototype parts to help you accelerate your new product development? Our experts can help you select the right manufacturing technology to refine, validate and prepare your part designs for production.
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Rapid prototyping provides significant advantages to part designers. You can use it to:
Because of its utility and versatility, rapid prototyping has been widely adopted for these and other common applications:
Urethane casting is an ideal way to produce small quantities of parts quickly for functional and cosmetic testing. It can be used to produce parts with complex geometries and fine detail. One silicone mold can be used to produce the same part in a variety of durometers, so they can be tested side-by-side to determine which one works best.
Selective Thermoplastic Electrophotographic Process (STEP) is a revolutionary additive technology that enables you to produce high-precision prototype parts without tooling. Because it uses powdered versions of popular thermoplastics, it can serve as a single solution for everything from prototype parts and bridge production to full production.
Prototype metal parts can be made using a variety of methods, including:
Stamping
CNC-controlled cutting (water jet, micro water jet, laser and wire EDM)
Press brakes
Progressive dies
Multi-slide forming
Chemical etching
Our ICOMold by Fathom rapid tooling service produces steel tooling quickly, with delivery of sample parts in as little as 15-days. Not aluminum tooling, which has a limited life, but hardened steel tooling that is perfect for bridge and low-volume production of parts. No one produces rapid steel tooling faster than ICOMold by Fathom!
The Fathom team has decades of experience in hand-building large prototype parts using the traditional process of laying up fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) in wooden molds.
This process uses reinforcement material like fiberglass, saturated with liquid resin, which is applied and shaped by hand to fit the mold. The size of these panels is limited only by the size of the mold. Once the parts have cured, they can be finished and painted for use on products that are under development. Fiberglass layup is significantly less expensive than other methods of making large parts.
One Fathom customer utilizes our fiberglass layup skills to build body panels for new models of agricultural equipment. It’s the perfect way to confirm fit and finish before production.
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Prototyping?
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