It is a new design from our USA water bottle, before from concept
to reliability, we always have kinds of stages to step by step
develop the part. here are the details that I want to share with
you what we did.
First, it is a overmolding design, the metal part is overmolded in
the PP material.
Second, to verify the concept, we make the part by 3D printing
sample by PLA process.
Third, you can see two different colors to combine them together.
3D printing materials
mainly include engineering plastics, photosensitive resins, rubber
materials, metal materials and ceramic material. Such as
PLA,ABS,PETG, TPU, Nylon, PC and Metal ( Aluminum, SUS304)
3D printing process
FDM: Fused deposition modelling is an advanced 3D printing technique for the manufacture of plastic materials. If the desired
part isn’t precision, it is a Cost performance process for
choosing, coz the material is quite cheap and the printing speed is
quicker but the cosmetic will be a little bit rough. For the
consideration, if you just want to check the feature itself, this
is a save cost process to think about.
SLA: is a widely-used 3D printing process and the most popular of
the resin printing technologies. The process owes its esteem in the
additive space to its ability to produce prototypes that are
accurate, isotropic and watertight, as well as production parts
with impressive surface smoothness and more detailed features.
SLS: Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) is an additive manufacturing
process that belongs to the powder bed fusion family. The Nylon
material always used this kind of process for printing ,coz need to
have a strong strength.
So since now, this a 2nd generation for us that want to improve
from 1st generation, so consider the cost saving , we use the PLA
by FDM process to create the sample to verify. And for the PLA
there you can have many more colors that you want to have.
From the image , you can see the fitment also works well by this
kind of 3D printing.
