Huibao invention prototyping offers a full range of engineering support for both plastic and metal part design. Our customers come to us for our support and expertise to identify and address potential "invention prototyping" pitfalls.

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Assisting customers over a number of manufacturing hurdles including process selection; material selection, cost reduction, and feasibility studies. Our engineering capabilities include electro-mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, reverse engineering, value engineering, drafting, and 2D to 3D conversions. Time to market for invention prototyping Parts Huibao Manufacturing has surfaced a cost and time effective process to produce rapid tooling for thermoformed parts. With (SLS) Selective Laser Sintering, we are now fabricating Thermoforming Tooling for our customer so that they can produce low volume pre-production Thermoformed parts quickly and inexpensively. Previously our customer was using expensive and time consuming conventional aluminum tooling methods which would take several weeks to fabricate and was an expensive process.

This is the first time our customer had ever turned out several new product ideas in less than 2 weeks! To learn more about this recent development, Our SLA machines use 3D CAD geometry to create an exact model of your design. The 3D CAD model is sliced into thin cross-sections or layers. An ultraviolet laser solidifies each layer onto the surface of the liquid photo polymeric resin.

The solidified layers lower into a liquid bath until all cross-sections are built into a solid replica of your original 3D CAD model. This process takes a matter of hours to complete. Models can be produced from a semi flexible resin or a rigid water clear resin that can be hand polished to be transparent. Finished models can then be snapped together, drilled, tapped, painted, or even used as a cast part mold master.

SLA models are often used for marketing presentations, investor and customer feedback, visual verification, form and fit, and design modification. The invention prototyping process can hold tolerances of +/- 0.005 of an inch and produce features as small as 0.012 of an inch.