Casting Service

A Wide Range of Casting Service to Address Any Project Need

High-Fidelity Casting of Silicones, Urethanes, and Metals

3Diligent's casting service includes a variety of options to meet your needs, regardless of volume or material needs. Using our extensive 3D printing capability to produce high-fidelity master patterns, we are able to deliver outstanding urethane (Room Temperature Vulcanization {RTV}) and silicone castings.

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

Casting Service Overview

Casting, a manufacturing process dating back 7,000 years, is often used to create heavy equipment such as machine tool beds, ship propellers, and the like. Parts can be cast at the required size and as one piece, rather than by joining smaller pieces together as you might with other types of processes. With casting, complex shapes—difficult or uneconomical with other rapid-manufacturing methods—are possible. 

To create a casting, a liquid material is usually poured into the hallow cavity of a mold, allowed to solidify, and then ejected or broken out of the mold to complete the process. Metals or various time-setting materials that cure after mixing two or more components together (e.g., epoxy, concrete, plaster, clay) are ideal for creating castings.