Casting Service

The Widest Range of Casting Services to Address Any Project Need

Casting for Your Rapid Manufacturing Requirements

3Diligent ProdEX’s casting service includes a variety of options to meet your needs, regardless of volume or material. Using our extensive 3D Printing capability to produce high-fidelity master patterns, we deliver outstanding urethane and silicone castings.

If you’re seeking metal castings, 3Diligent ProdEX provides both sand casting and investment casting approaches to support you from prototype to production volumes.

Casting Manufacturing Technologies

3Diligent example processes: investment casting

INVESTMENT CASTING SERVICE

SAND CASTING SERVICE

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DIE CASTING SERVICE

3Diligent example processes: permanent mold casting

URETHANE CASTING SERVICE

3Diligent example process: urethane casting

SILICONE CASTING SERVICE

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Investment Casting Service

The investment casting service defines the process of pouring molten metal into plaster or ceramic mold with high-heat resistance, letting it fill a custom-designed void in that mold, allowing it to cool, and then removing the solidified part from the mold. Relative to sand casting, this process is especially capable of achieving more delicate features. Typically, the pattern used to create the investment casting mold is created by 3D printing a master pattern and then put the part into a furnace where it can drip out, leaving a perfectly shaped void in which to pour metal.

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Sand Casting Service

The sand casting service describes a process in which an aluminum die-casting tool made of P-20 steel is used. P-20 steel is softer than H-13 steel, which means the aluminum die castings are made in less time and with less tooling cost.

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Die Casting Service

The cold casting services is the process of mixing metal powder with a translucent casting resin and pouring the mixture into a mold. The finished casting gives the appearance of solid metal. The process is faster and much less expensive when compared to the process of foundry casting molten metal.

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Urethane Casting Service

In casting, tools are the hard or soft molds used to manufacture components. Hard tools are made of metals such as steel or nickel alloys chosen because they are capable of withstanding thousands of production cycles but are expensive to produce and prohibitively expensive for short-run manufacturing. Soft tools are typically made of composite materials such as silicone, carbon fiber, or fiberglass. In soft tool casting (silicone tool) service the molds are softer than metals. Soft tools do not last as long so you can either make many soft tools (molds) or make one permanent mold. In some cases, you can make many soft tool molds for less than the cost of a single hard tool mold

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Silicone Casting Service

There are two types of molds, soft tool and hard tool. In our soft tool casting (resin tool) service, urethane molding produces parts from silicone, which is known as soft tooling. Injection molding produces parts from steel or aluminum, which is known as hard tooling. In soft tool casting (resin tool), a mold is made from urethane, and resin is poured into the cavity to produce the final component. Soft tool molds are considered permanent molds since they are used repeatedly.

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Example Industries

AUTOMOTIVE

3Diligent technologies: investment casting

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Example Materials

Aluminum Casting

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Example of gears made from titanium 3D printing

Titanium Casting

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Terry Trumbull

VP of Electro-Mech Components, Aerospace Industry

We worked with 3Diligent on a urethane casting project. The breadth of materials and services they offered, including flame retardant and color options, made them a great partner on this program. We were very satisfied with the experience.

Chris Wlezien

Technical Lead, LUNAR Design, Design Industry

We’ve used a lot of rapid prototyping companies in the past, but I really liked the flexibility, diversity and reach that 3Diligent offers.

John Pendleton

President, Kansas City Valve and Fitting

We used 3Diligent for some custom parts used in the fabrication of instrumentation control panels. Everything arrived on time and to spec, and we saved 30% vs. our previous supplier.