From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Mold Design
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Materials - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Mold Design
Materials
- [Instructor] Let's take a look at materials commonly used in prototyping and rapid production. I'll define the main material types of polymers, thermoplastics, and elastomers with example materials, key features, and differences. Lastly, I'll talk about some of the different forms these materials can come in, as that affects which processes they can be used in. For better or for worse, there's a ton of crossover between categories through the shared nature of formable materials. So there are crossover exceptions in almost every category. As you can see, polymer is divided first into thermoplastics and thermosetting categories, which do not intersect. And elastomers are generally thermoset, but some are thermoplastic. This'll make more sense in a minute. I promise I'll only talk about the molecular chemistry of materials for this first differentiation. The rest is qualitative comparison. Polymers are the overall main category of materials that exhibit plastic or formable…
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