Polyether ether ketone (PEEK) has become one of the most valuable high-performance plastics across industries such as aerospace, automotive, and medical. It’s known for its exceptional strength, heat resistance, and chemical stability. When it comes to manufacturing precision components from PEEK, CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machining is often the method of choice. In this blog,
Aluminum is a widely-used material across industries, prized for its lightweight, corrosion resistance, and impressive strength-to-weight ratio. From automotive parts to aerospace components, aluminum plays a crucial role. However, machining aluminum can be more challenging than it might seem. If you’ve worked with it, you already know that getting the best results requires careful attention
PEEK engineering plastics have good machinability, flame retardancy, non-toxicity, wear resistance, corrosion resistance and other characteristics. They play an important role in weight reduction, effective extension of component service life, and optimization of component utilization. Self-lubricating properties of PEEK PEEK has outstanding sliding properties. It can provide excellent wear resistance under various temperatures, pressures and
In order to communicate with your metal supplier most effectively, and more importantly, in order to choose the material best suited for your particular applications, you need to understand some basic engineering terms used in most metal catalogs. Stress Stress is usually expressed in pounds per square inch (psi). It represents the load in pounds
A vertical burn test in progress — the standard procedure for UL 94 V-2, V-1, V-0, 5VB, and 5VA classifications. RpProto offers all materials meeting UL94V0 standards for rapid prototyping and production for CNC machining (ABS and PC), vacuum casting (Hei-cast 8260) and injection molding. UL94 materials allow machined or thermoplastic molded plastic parts to
CNC Machining and Rapid Prototyping Prototyping, also known as prototype manufacturing, is the process where a manufacturer creates a small batch of products from digital design drawings. Manufacturers can use these functional prototypes to find flaws in the design and fix them before producing large numbers of parts. Companies can also use prototypes to participate
Prototyping Materials According to the materials used in the production, the prototype model can be divided into plastic prototype and metal prototype. At present, the mainstream material of the prototype model is plastic. It is due to the large number of applications of plastic products. The prototype model is directly produced with the same material,
2D milling Mastercam 2D CNC machining automatic programming ability is the most advanced of all automatic programming software. Complete functions, fast post-processing speed and high efficiency. Two-dimensional CNC machining is also called 2.5-axis machining, which mainly includes machining paths such as contour milling, slotting, face milling, and drilling. Here are a few main tool paths
The Importance of Prototypes The three-dimensional design software used in modern industrial design can intuitively express the three-dimensional model of the product on the screen, perform simulation assembly and motion simulation, and even static and dynamic analysis. But the screen is flat after all, and the size is limited, it can not be compared with
Aluminium is a lightweight material. It is essentially non-magnetic, which makes aluminum suitable for CNC machining. It has a low deformation coefficient, high dimensional stability, and impact resistance. Therefore, aluminum and aluminum alloys can maintain accurate dimensions under different conditions (such as temperature fluctuations, external shocks, etc.). Aluminum part Aluminum part The most commonly used aluminium
