Definitions/Buzzwords

QuickCast - A method of building SLA parts that produces hollow patterns very quickly. These patterns are used in place of wax in the investment casting process to produce metal castings.

Durometer - instrument used to test hardness and durability of a metal or substance. Measurement in low numbers usually denote softer matter, with high numbers indicating harder material. Two scales, A & D, describe the material's hardness. i.e. SHORE A 25 is very soft, SHORE A 90 is medium soft, SHORE D 90 is very hard.

Tank Time - the increment of time needed to perform an SLA job.

Test Block - an SLA part of known dimensions and features built specifically to test accuracy of an SLA machine.

ABS - (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) A high impact plastic whose strength, rigidity, and exceptional electrical properties have made it one of most used materials in plastic injection molding for computers and many other modern electronic devices.

UL Testing - Safety standards testing done by Underwriter Laboratories, a non-profit, independent agency that tests, certifies and writes standards for the safety of products for consumer, office and industrial machines and devices.

UL 94 V0 - Standard for material flammability, denoting UL test results for flame retardency.

RTV - Room temperature vulcanized rubber, the material used to make soft tooling or molds for polyurethane castings. this is text meant just to take up lots of space at the bottom of the page, so that if there is only a table or something in the content part of this page, the content still takes up the majority of the screen. if there is not any text here, then sometimes there will be just a table here, and the left navigation bar to the left will be kinda wide...