PROTOTYPING
Rapid Prototyping (RP) makes it possible to produce physical parts without having to manufacture them using machining tools by converting data retrieved from a CAD system, as well as to create a 3D representation of drawings and designs. Compared with other methods widely used until the 1980’s (creating models from foam plastic, wood or wax manually, or using NC machining tools), the introduction of RP systems has significantly reduced the time required to produce a physical model.
Modeling
Restoration of architectural objects
Making master models
Making souvenirs
Interior Design
Making busts and bas-reliefs
Flora and fauna
MODELING
Express manufacture of scale models
Development of scale models is based on unique technologies that facilitate the achievement of maximum realistic details (in scale models of all types of buildings – public, private, shopping centres, residential complexes etc.). Our models are used for exhibitions, sales offices and for educational purposed.
Prototyping allows us to make an exact model of a future object and helps to visually present the ideas of an architect or a designer to clients, to demonstrate exactly what the finished product will look like. The greatest advantage of this technology is the amount of time required to build a prototype mode – just one day!
The built model allows specialists to view the prospective facility from any aide or angle, and to verify the compatibility and ease of assembly of the parts. The model instantly reveals any miscalculations or inaccuracies, which are more affordable, and easier, to correct in the design stage. Maxjmum realism allows for the revelation of even the slightest errors and/or ineffectual engineering decisions.
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Despite the limitations on the measurements of any single item (480 mm x 480 mm x 380 mm), RP allows the creation of perfectly matching parts which can be assembled together. Due to this, the size of the final item is virtually unlimited. The following images show a completed model of a plant measuring 1200 mm x 1300 mm, and consisting of 9 parts.
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Restoration of architectural objects
MODEL OF THE CHINESE KITCHEN BUILDING
A model of the Chinese Kitchen building on the palatial estate in Lomonosov, near St. Petersburg, Russia, was built for NAVGEOKOM. The palatial estate was a country residence of Katherine the Great. NAVGEOKOM specialists had scanned the building and submitted the STL file to us. The model was made using SLS technology.
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MAKING MASTER MODELS
The lengthiest process in foundry production is making the master model, which can take up to several months per component.
RP allows us to manufacture an SLS model based on drawings in less than one week.
1. We offer two types of master models for foundrymen – melting and highly rigid. For melting models, we use materials that are affected by temperature and can be melted. This material burns out at high temperatures, leaving virtually no ash residue
2. The highly rigid models are made of a readily workable material. Items made from this material can be sawed easily, drilled and polished. (See Fig. 1 below)
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With simple finishing work a perfectly smooth surface can be achieved with a shore hardness of 80. These models for making foundry moulds have a very long service life.
3. Such hard durable models can be functional models. They could serve as housings for functional prototypes of electronic devices. (See Fig. 2 below)
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Or as a component of a ready made machine. (See Fig. 3 below)
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MAKING SOUVENIRS
No exhibition, presentation or advertising campaign is complete without souvenirs. A souvenir associated with an event could include the logo and telephone number of your company,
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Corporate gifts with your logo on them for partners and colleagues for celebrations or awards which can help improve partner relations.
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Interior design
DECORATIVE ITEMS MADE TO ORDER
Our company makes exclusive interior and exterior design elements made to our clients’ specifications in quantities ranging from one to several dozens of items.
Sketches, drawings, design projects or items selected from our catalogue can be used as source material.
EXAMPLES OF DECORATIVE ITEMS CAN INCLUDE:
• Ceiling lights, wall lamps, chandeliers and floor lamps for the lighting and decoration of apartments, shops, restaurants, offices and concert halls as well as decorative street lights etc.
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• Decorative objects that can be used for finishing stairways, windowsills and door frames, as well as fences, stands hooks and strip moulding with complex patterns.
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• Bas-relief pictures created from well-known works of art or the clients’ own graphic material.
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MAKING BUSTS AND BAS-RELIEFS
Our company makes life-sized busts and bas-reliefs. We use two different technologies to create these:
1. Facial scanning: Done with a laser scanner. Once scanning is completed, the images are retouched to remove artifacts in order to achieve the desired result.
2. Generation of a three dimensional image using 2D photographs.
Scanning provides a much better likeness of the original than the method using a photograph. The average time to scan a human head is 15-20 minutes.
The second method the quality of the bust or bas-relief will depend on the quality and quantity of photographs, and on the amount of shooting angles.
Finished busts:
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Finished bas-reliefs:
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Flora and fauna
As the technology our company uses allows us to reproduce objects of any level of complexity, making wildlife mock-ups is easy to do. This can be indispensible for presenting extinct or endangered animals in exhibitions.
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We have a large collection of flora and fauna at our disposal, any of which can quickly and easily be turned into a model.
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