Comment by jbl0ndie
1 day ago
Lovely project and a really great idea.
Have you come across soft tooling for injection moulding? It's a lower cost, short run approach using much less durable moulds from various materials.
1 day ago
Lovely project and a really great idea.
Have you come across soft tooling for injection moulding? It's a lower cost, short run approach using much less durable moulds from various materials.
Before you have that working you'll have 3D printed a containerload of these ;)
Besides the lack of flexibility if you want to make changes. I've used soft tooling for some projects but I was (1) never really happy with the results and (2) ended up breaking the molds quite often resulting in a lot of wasted material and expense. 3D printing is the way to go for projects such as these.
Thank you!
I didn't know that was a thing - I'm going to look into it.