With sand casting, it is comparatively simple to handle design changes by changing the mold by modifying the pattern or core boxes, which are often made of wood). It’s more complicated with ...

One advantage of sand casting is that it is relatively simple to change the mold (by modifying the pattern or core boxes, often made of wood) to accommodate design changes. With investment casting ...

Rapid prototyping uses three-dimensional (3D) computer aided design to quickly fabricate a part or, alternatively, a sand mold for casting a part from metal. Currently there are many limitations with ...

Sand casting has been around since, well, since a really really long time ago. For thousands of years, people have been pouring molten metal into finely crafted sand casts, and there’s really no ...

1 Blocks of tufa stone, ready for carving. Photo courtesy Thunderbird Supply Company, Gallup, N.M. 2 The artist draws a design onto a block of tufa, a porous volcanic stone found in New Mexico and ...

This is the oldest and simplest (in theory but not in practice) means of manufacturing shaped components. In sand casting, reusable, permanent patterns are used to make the sand moulds. The ...

To make those parts, Magnus Metal borrows elements of sand casting and 3D printing to perform what it calls digital casting. Before casting work begins, the company’s software slices a design ...