DESIGN 4 CASTING

Throughout my years in the foundry industry I have come to realize that the process of getting a casting produced from a design has changed significantly. Gone are the days of taking a blueprint to a pattern shop and have them create a master pattern for you, then you would take the master pattern to the foundry of your choice and they would create a production pattern that would suit their needs. Typically you would hold the master pattern in your archives, and when an engineering change was needed, or it was decided to move to a different foundry, you would make the changes to the master pattern, and start the process over. The master pattern was the way companies were assured the casting maintained its dimensional integrity throughout the years of changes... In today's digital world, a company now sends a blueprint or cad model to a foundry, and their pattern shop uses that information to create tooling cad files to produce the pattern equipment. This new process has significantly..

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