Definition
The term Rapid Tooling has three different but related meanings (Mennig and Stoekhert 2013):
- 1.
Strategies for the fast (or rapid) conception of tools, tool inserts, dies, and molds in the sense of a methodology.
- 2.
All, even nonadditive, manufacturing processes or process chains that support to make tools, tool inserts, dies, and molds faster and cheaper than it was possible with traditional tool making but for a lower production outcome. The term includes all kinds of copying or secondary rapid prototyping processes like vacuum casting.
- 3.
Additive manufacturing of tools, tool inserts, dies, and molds in the sense of direct digital manufacturing.
This entry only deals with Rapid Tooling in the sense of direct digital layer-oriented fabrication as defined under bullet point 3.
Rapid Toolingsometimes is misunderstood as automated making of the entire tool. In fact, it delivers complex tool...
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Gebhardt, A., Hoetter, JS. (2019). Rapid Tooling. In: Chatti, S., Tolio, T. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35950-7_16751-3
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