A sand mould being formed around a pattern. Lukas Stavek, CC BY-SA 3.0 . What we all understood as casting in our conversation was sand casting. Sand is packed around a pattern of the piece to be ...

Sand casting has been around since, well, since a really really long time ago. For thousands of years, people have been pouring molten metal into finely crafted sand casts, and there’s really no ...

One way of doing this is to use rapid prototyping technologies. Rapid prototyping uses three-dimensional (3D) computer aided design to quickly fabricate a part or, alternatively, a sand mold for ...