A sand mould being formed around a pattern. Lukas Stavek, CC BY-SA 3.0 . What we all understood as casting in our conversation was sand casting. Sand is packed around a pattern of the piece to be ...

There’s trouble in the Kingdom of Random – the smithies of the realm are having trouble sand-casting copper. And while [King Grant] might not be directly asking for help, we think the ...

One way of doing this is to use rapid prototyping technologies. Rapid prototyping uses three-dimensional (3D) computer aided design to quickly fabricate a part or, alternatively, a sand mold for ...