CastForm® PS

Directly produce complex investment casting patterns without tooling.
...for use with all selective laser sintering (SLS®) systems

APPLICATIONS

• Create patterns directly rather than through indirect methods

• Complex investment casting patterns

• Reactive metals like titanium

• Low melt-temperature metals such as aluminum, magnesium and zinc

• Ferrous and non-ferrous metals

• Economic, low-volume production castings without tooling

• Smaller parts can be joined to create very large patterns

• Sacrificial, expendable patterns

FEATURES

• Functions like foundry wax and is "foundry friendly"

• Low residual ash content (less than 0.02%)

• Short burnout cycle

• Easy-to-process plastic

• Good plastic powder recycle characteristics

BENEFITS

• Create complex patterns without welds or joints

• Reduce lead times resulting in faster time-tomarket

• Compatible with autoclaves, low-temperature furnaces, and vacuum plaster casting methods

• Easy to assemble and repair patterns

• Rapidly test new designs in iterative process

CastformTM PS patterns are comparable to conventional wax patterns in the following areas:

• Assembly methods and tools

• Stability and transportability

• Handling during assembly and repair

• Suitable for all cast metal alloys

• Low residual ash

• No ceramic shell cracking

• Usable for ceramic and plaster molds