Hi,

Send me your files if you have one, for what part of plastic, that  you need 
a mould for and
I will send you more details. Go to www.dentnco.com to the lights section 
and see all the
products for that I did the moulds!
When I did all that moulds ( plastic injection and plastic thermoformation), 
here in Romania we did
first a 3D model in software (we used 3D Studio, but you can use anyother 3d 
modeling software)
to show your idea to both parts: your clients and your subcontractor, after 
that, if will be useful you can do a protype
in one way or other.
Anyway I think it's not the end of the world here!








----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan B. Pearce" <A.B.Pearce@rl.ac.uk>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [EE] plastic mould and ultrasonic welding


>> Are there any good tutorials on plastic mould? It seems to be very
>> important but quite a difficult topics. The mould is always not cheap to
>> make and hard to modify, not like electronics circuits. ;-(
>
> This is the sort of area where you just have to interact with someone that
> is very experienced with mould making, and knows the ins and outs of
> injection moulding. You have to get them involved at an early stage, 
> saying
> how big you need the box, what the constraints are, and so on, and have 
> them
> give input during the drawing stage.
>
> Then you get your one-off prototype done by one of a number of ways. The
> "well known" one is "stereo lithography" - you can find all you want to 
> know
> about this through google. To do this will generally involve sending
> electronic copies of your drawings to a company that does it, and in due
> course back come your examples, which should be good enough for doing fit
> checks, and so on.
>
> If you want to keep this part in house, then look at a "Z Printer" (as
> featured in CSI NY) from http://www.zcorp.com/ or a Versalaser from
> http://versalaser.com/ which both produce examples from electronic 
> drawings
> AIUI. I do not have any experience with any of these, but have seen 
> examples
> of Stereo Lithography and Z Printer outputs.
>
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