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Vaupell Saves Time and Money with Accurate 3D Printed Casting Patterns

Vaupell produces investment casting patterns for high quality aerospace parts in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional methods with QuickCast™ SLA printing from 3D Systems and antimony free resins.

Our advanced software, hardware, and materials for 3D-printed investment casting patterns enable aerospace parts manufacturers to create complex casting patterns in a fraction of the time it takes to create molds using traditional tooling.

By using our additive manufacturing process, you can create hollow patterns that allow for greater design complexity, reduced component weight, and lower assembly costs.

Improve Investment Casting for Aerospace Parts Manufacturing

  • 3D Printed Pattern for Investment Casting

  • Create Stronger, More Reliable Patterns

    Our 3D-printed hollow casting patterns are strong enough to support parts during manufacturing. While durable, these patterns can still collapse under their own expansion, and their unique material and design allow for complete drainage.

  • Complex design for investment casting

  • Build Complex Design Features More Easily

    With greater design freedom and economy, you can produce incredibly complex casting patterns. Aerospace parts designers can also consolidate shapes to reduce component weight and assembly costs.

  • Reduce Lead Time with Investment Casting

  • Reduce Lead Time

    Avoid the time and expense of using machine injection molding tools for casting patterns. Our tool-less casting pattern production allows you to create patterns for aerospace component manufacturing faster. In many cases, you can go from CAD model to low volumes of final casted parts within 48 hours.

More Aerospace and Defense Applications

Thales Bracket Close-Up Aerospace

Lightweight Brackets
Metal 3D Printed DLR Fuel Injector

Propulsion
Laserform Heat Exchanger Closeup for Aerospace

Heat Exchangers

  • What Can You 3D Print With Metals?

    Design, test and produce metal parts with 3D printing that are simply not possible with standard manufacturing. Create lightweight, high-strength structures and deliver new capabilities.

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  • 3D Printing Metal Parts and Materials

    Direct Metal Printing (DMP) gives you complete design freedom to manufacture stronger parts that are light, durable and perform better than other means.

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Learn More About Our Solutions for Investment Casting Applications
3D Systems ProX 800 3D Printer (SLA) for prototyping and 3D printed investment casting patterns

ProX 800

SLA quality at high throughput to address the broadest range of applications

Highly accurate, humidity/moisture resistant, antimony-free casting patterns

Accura Fidelity (SLA)

Highly accurate, humidity/moisture resistant, antimony-free casting patterns

Geomagic Design X reverse engineering and 3D scanning software

Geomagic Design X

Reverse Engineering Software

3D Sprint

Plastic Additive Manufacturing Software

3D Systems ProX 950 3D Printer (SLA) large-format 3D printing

ProX 950

All the benefits of SLA 3D printing in extra-large format

3D Systems Accura CastPro SLA

Accura CastPro (SLA)

Highly accurate with excellent humidity/moisture resistance

Syringes of Accura Patch and Accura Bond

Accura Patch & Accura Bond (SLA)

Post-processing SLA materials

  • Vaupell Saves Time and Money on Investment Casting

    Learn how a 70-year-old aerospace components supplier is delivering unprecedented speed and quality to its customers at a fraction of the cost of traditional investing casting.

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  • Investment Casting Applications for Aerospace

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    Our team can help you solve your most difficult design and production challenges with additive manufacturing solutions. Together we’ll identify your needs, working with you to optimize your designs, prototype, validate and define a manufacturing flow.

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