Digital Art Foundry

Casting Specialty foundry and digital pattern making service focusing on small run, one-off, prototypes and reverse engineering. Serving over a thousand customers worldwide, spanning over sixteen years. An early adopter of Rapid Prototyping and high-resolution 3D digitizing tools to produce complex castings in a wide range of ferrous and nonferrous alloys. Operating both induction and gas melting furnaces and using a variety of investment and sand molding processes to provide castings for oil companies, robotics, food machine manufacturers, agricultural equipment, museums, antique restoration companies, architectural restoration projects and collectors. Customers included Universal Studios, Shell Oil, Lodi Foundry, American Casting, The Scottish Castle Association, Jay Leno, Otis Chandler, University of California, and many others.

High resolution 3D scanning

Structured light, laser and contact 3D digitization for reverse engineering, prototyping, digitization of cultural artifacts, art, industrial design for pattern making, digital archival and 3D Printing. ≤0.05 mm resolution, Maximum Scan Volume 700×700×700mm
FDM Printing
Single and Dual Head Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D printers with a build volume up to 450mm x 450mm x 470mm , Layer Resolution down to 20 microns Material Compatibility; PLA, ABS, HIPS, Nylon, PC, PVA, and using Micro Swiss print heads, ruby and hardened steel print nozzles for carbon fiber, kevlar and metalized filaments.

Resin printing

Capable of printing at a layer height of 10 microns using burnout wax resin for investment casting as well as a variety of specialty resins for patterns or end use projects

CNC milling/scanning

The Roland Modela MDX-20 is a desktop scanning and milling machine that is compatible with many popular CAD software. The machine can be used to mill ABS, acrylic, wood, plaster, styrene foam, chemical wood, jeweler’s wax, and light metals such as aluminum and brass. The Modela software can accept .STL, .DXF, and .MDJ file types.