From the course: Rapid Prototyping for Product Design
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Building a silicone mold
From the course: Rapid Prototyping for Product Design
Building a silicone mold
So in this movie, we're going to get ready to build a mold for our GoPro Frame. So, here's an example of the final part that we 3D printed and we want to make a lot more of these. We want to make them using a molding process. So in this case, the part here it's got a couple nice features I want to point out that I have this little battery back up that can go in the back here. It's got a nice flat face and I want to create this mold that allows us to use all these features. So, the first step in this mold is taking and making a master. So, this part here was printed on a PolyJet machine and it's a pretty fine print but it does have a few little, little lines in there and a few little imperfections in the 3D print. So the first thing we want to do is clean up the print so you have a nice, smooth surface that's going to mold well. The key thing with molding is any type of imperfections in the master will automatically show up in the molded parts. So we want to make sure we spend a lot of…
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