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Shane Wighton, from the YouTube channel Stuff Made Here, used 3D-printed tooling to form a sheet metal component as part of a concept validation process. Metal manufacturing is essential for all areas of the economy. Because of their strength, stiffness, and long-term durability, metal components are used in applications... from appliances to construction parts and car body panels. Traditional metal manufacturing techniques include forming, casting, molding, joining, and machining. Sheet metal forming involves various processes where force is applied to a piece of sheet metal to plastically deform the material into the desired shape, modifying its geometry rather than removing any material. Sheet metals can be bent or stretched into a variety of complex shapes, permitting the creation of complex structures with great strength and a minimum amount of material. Sheet metal forming is the most cost-effective forming procedure today for manufacturing parts in large quantities. It can be highly automated in factories or, at the other end of the spectrum, manually operated in metal workshops for small series parts. It is a versatile, consistent, and high-quality procedure to create accurate metal parts with limited material waste. From metal cans to protective housing for hardware, parts created by sheet metal forming are found everywhere in our daily lives. In this article, learn the basics of sheet metals, the various sheet metal forming processes, and how to reduce the cost of sheet metal forming with rapid tooling and 3D printed dies. For a detailed overview and the step-by-step method, watch our webinar or download our white paper: Research conducted by Shane Wighton. Check out the fantastic 15-minute video on his YouTube channel 'Stuff Made Here'! its top-notch engineering content.:show more

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kache1 year ago

Send me a nylon printer for free. I'll change my profile banner to formlabs for a year my analytics are insane, it is a good deal, trust me on this

Wintergatan1 year ago

Awesome

kache1 year ago

@CooperZurad he was in the space lmao

MrManderly1 year ago

This is quite impressive ngl

Martin La Grange1 year ago

Lamborghini are already doing this for body-panel forms (and almost everything else), printing the forms in Nylons with SLS. Other parts are made with CFRP and other SLS material technology. As a result, a V-12 Lamborghini sells for US$1M but costs $100k to make...

David Hansen1 year ago

Handmade g-code is beautiful

UAV Bro1 year ago

This was fun

dirtman1 year ago

Is it weird to be excited by wire clips ?

Phoenix𝕏1 year ago

Ohshape is so funny man I was going to get started on the endowrist mechanism , and I decided to search to see if a person already worked on this before whole ass model completed

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