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Industrial design often deals with parts which will be produced by a mould process such as injection moulding or die casting. These processes use an expensive tool and machine, but low material and labour costs during the production run. For most commercial quantities (say 10,000+), processes like injection moulding are the most cost effective. Unfortunately, tooling can be very expensive, a typical injection mould might be $10k for a simple part and $100k for a largish item, add more for special complexities such as sliding cores, high clarity, multiple cavities, complex detail etc. Add even more if you want to modify the design after you get the parts back. In the past, the designer would check & double check the drawings, post them off to the toolmaker, and then endure a nerve-racking several months wait for the first off tool samples... Rapid Prototyping (RP) is another tool in product design. It refers to parts that are built direct from a CAD file using a layered approach. (Also..

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