Struggling to figure out how to produce those plastic parts, you hear about an opportunity that you've heard can produce plastic parts and still get them back and installed in time.

Obtain plastic parts in almost any engineering plastic in as little as one week with prototype tooling solutions that use 3D Systems sterolithography systems. In a day or less, you can produce core and cavity tooling insers directly on stereolithography systems, and use these as actual tooling inserts for injection molding. On the second day, you can be assembling your tool, and on the third day, be injection molding plastic parts. Owning stereolithography systems and injection molding capability pays dividends -- plastic parts in under a week. For other companies not fortunate enough to own this resource, a network of hundreds of expert service providers worldwide can service the needs of companies like yours to produce injection mold tooling inserts and plastic parts -- quickly and efficiently, directly from your CAD data.

When you need small quantities of parts in a variety of end-use plastics, stereolithography provides a highly versatile, superior method of producing both physical prototypes, or injection mold tooling inserts that can deliver the parts you need. Ownership of SLA systems provide the fastest turnaround, the highest level of control, and the level of quality that you demand - every time.

Satisfy UL, CE and other testing requirements. Or produce prototype parts or tooling inserts from solid imaging systems in a day or less. Meet the demand for end-use prototypes in a fraction of the time and cost normally associated with production tooling.

If your need for end-use material requirements are not as stringent, or you need just a few dozen or less, urethane castings from RTV molds offer high quality urethane parts very quickly and at very low cost.

When part requirements are in the hundreds, processes like Direct SL Tooling (referred to as Direct AIM), and durable aluminum epoxy molds offer excellent yields from low-cost molds.

At the high end, 3D Keltool tooling inserts are a cost effective alternative for quantities of smaller, highly complex parts that would ordinarily require machining, EDM or Wire EDM to produce. 3D Keltool is a production tooling solution that precisely replicates SL core and cavity patterns in just eight days directly from your CAD data.

In fact, dozens of secondary casting and tooling processes can be married with stereolithography to produce any quantity of parts, in any material, directly from your CAD solid modeling data. Stereolithography is the proven single choice of hundreds of leading manufacturers worldwide because it continues to demonstrate its versatility, quality, and speed to satisfy customer needs.