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Vacuum Casting Service
Fast, Reliable Vacuum Casting for Prototypes and Low-Volume Production: High Detail, Versatile Materials, and Quick Turnarounds for Functional Parts
- Low Cost for Molds
- Tight Tolerance ± 0.05 mm
- Delivery as Fast as 3 day
Save 30% cost on average!
What Is Vacuum Casting?
Vacuum casting, or urethane casting, is a versatile vacuum technique to draw liquid materials into a mold for creating plastic and rubber parts.
This process excels in swiftly producing complex, intricate components, making it ideal for early-stage quality checks and speeding up product development. Suitable for small to medium batches, vacuum casting offers precision akin to injection molding but at lower costs and quicker turnaround times.
Utilizing silicone rubber molds made from CNC or SLA master patterns, it replicates fine details and textures, ensuring consistency and high-quality finishes in every part.
Advantages Of Vacuum Casting
Precision Detailing
Achieves exceptionally detailed, accurate parts, perfect for complex designs and intricate geometries.
Material Diversity
Offers a wide range of polyurethane resins, simulating various material properties for versatile applications.
Cost Efficiency
Ideal for small batches, avoiding expensive tooling and molds, and significantly reducing initial production costs.
Rapid Turnaround
Quick mold creation and casting process allow for faster production cycles, essential for urgent projects.
Superior Finishes
Parts exhibit high-quality surface finishes, often needing minimal post-processing, suitable for aesthetic prototypes.
Design Flexibility
Facilitates easy and cost-effective design modifications, making it perfect for iterative development and prototyping.
Vacuum Casting Service
Quick Production Solution for Small Batch Plastic Prototypes
From Prototyping to Production: The Vacuum Casting Journey
Vacuum casting is the perfect method for producing top-quality prototypes and limited-run parts for various uses. AT-Machining assists in achieving your manufacturing objectives.
Prototyping
Vacuum casting is a cost-effective prototyping method, ideal for creating detailed prototypes for functional testing, offering precision and quality in small-batch production at a reduced cost.
Market Testing
Vacuum casting is ideal for market testing, offering rapid production of high-quality, realistic prototypes, enabling businesses to efficiently test and validate products in real-world scenarios.
On-Demand Production
Vacuum casting suits on-demand production, providing a flexible, quick-turnaround solution for creating high-quality parts as needed, minimizing inventory while meeting specific production demands efficiently.
Vacuum Casting Materials
AT-Machining offers high-quality urethane materials, expertly tailored for diverse applications across industries like automotive, construction, and electronics.
Our urethane products not only ensure compatibility with various engineering plastics such as ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene), PMMA (Polymethyl Methacrylate), PC (Polycarbonate), PP (Polypropylene), and PA (Polyamide) but also integrate crucial properties like impact resistance and high-temperature resistance.
This integration enhances the strength, durability, and versatility of our materials. The unique combination of urethane’s resilience and flexibility with the distinct properties of each engineering plastic leads to innovative solutions.
These solutions are perfectly aligned with the demands of high-performance applications, guaranteeing both reliability and excellence for your projects.
Vacuum Casting Technical Specifications
AT-Machining provides various vacuum casting tolerances, achieving 0.05 – 0.2 mm based on master patterns and part geometry. See our technical specs.
| Standard accuracy | Standard tolerance on ±0.2mm/100mm, with the highest precision able to reach ±0.05 mm. |
|---|---|
| Maximum part dimensions | The vacuum equipment can hold 2.0M*1.2M*1.0M mold specifications. |
| Minimum wall thickness | The minimum wall thickness is 0.5mm, the best is 1.5mm～5mm to ensure the mold is filled properly. |
| Lifetime of the silicone mold | Generally, each mold can produce 20-25 copies. For parts needing exceptional quality, like clear or intricate designs, a single mold typically yields only 10 to 12 cast parts. |
| Standard lead time | Depending on the mold's complexity and volume, up to 80 copies can be created within a timeframe of 6 to 9 days. |
| Surface textures and other functions | Colored, textured, painted, coated, clear polished, insert, and over-molding. |
The Applications Of Vacuum Casting
AT-Machining vacuum casting service, known for rapid production, affordability, and durable components, is preferred for custom automotive, medical, consumer goods, and more parts.
Automotive Industry
Vacuum casting is used to create detailed, durable prototypes of automotive parts like dashboard components, light covers, and interior trims. It's ideal for testing form, fit, and function in the design phase.
Medical Equipment
This method is employed for producing precise, biocompatible components for medical devices. It's suitable for creating parts for medical models, surgical guides, and equipment casings, ensuring accuracy and safety.
Consumer Electronics
For gadgets and consumer electronics, vacuum casting offers a way to prototype cases, buttons, and other parts with a high-quality finish. It allows for testing of aesthetics and ergonomics before mass production.
Industrial Machinery
Vacuum casting serves industrial applications by producing durable, functional prototypes of machine components, helping in design validation and functionality testing before full-scale production.
Gallery of Our Vacuum Casting Parts
We produced vacuum-casted prototypes and orders for diverse industries: medical, aerospace, automotive, defense, electronics, startups, automation, machinery, marine, and robotics.
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