As product designers, customers constantly come to us urging us to manufacture products in-house through 3d printing. Everyone is going crazy for 3D-prints these days. And understandably so, it’s like Star Trek magic—to be able to input some data in the replicator, press go, and voilà! Magic shapes will appear!
While the CEO of SurfaceID’s Montreal team is traditionally trained first and foremost in industrial design, the process of bringing a new invention from conception to manufacturing can’t be done without going through a thorough and extensive mechanical engineering phase. In fact the mechanical engineering is often far more involved
Introduction Vacuum casting is a low budget method allows to very quickly produce many plastic replicas from the silicone mold of a master model. Generally used for prototyping, the possible use of different materials available for injection allows to precisely reproduce the shape, feel (and sometimes properties) of the potential
