Dies and Molds

With the outsourcing monster on everybody's heels these days, everybody wants to be competitive and deliver high quality results cheaper and faster, This is most evident in the Tool and die industry. Our services can help you achieve better faster results at prices that will give you an edge over your rivals.

Sheet metal dies and plastic molds have an unpleasant habit of sometimes knocking at your door without their CAD data attached to them. Usually, for tools with a few prismatic shapes they can easily be measured on conventional measuring tools like CMM and other contact probe methods. Yet, most tools have lots of freeform undefined shapes that measuring with conventional tools could prove to be a nightmare. Using our services can solve all of those problems. We use either one, or a combination of our non contact non destructive digitizing technologies to rapidly measure the tool which results in a dense xyz measurement point cloud data. With this data, you can:

		Reverse engineer the tool, die or part
		Troubleshoot, inspect or reproduce them quickly and precisely
		Make changes in your die or mold, even if you don't have the CAD data
		Make cutter paths right away from our data
		Store the digital shape for future use
		Inspect/compare the data to original CAD design and view the results in easy to understand color plots.
		Generate die and mold shapes from the digitized data of an existing product

For example, our systems digitize a typical 4 feet by 4 feet mold or die in eight to twelve hours depending on the complexity. The resulting point cloud data may contain points in excess of 5 million.