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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 5190978, member: 51347&quot;]Back in the early 90’s, we were making 3-D molds from steel and copper “filings”. CAD/CAM software ran lasers on 3-D axis and we could scinter/form the filings into any 3-D shapes. We chose to produce prototypes for concepts, but mainly negative imaged them into making molds for plastic injection molded parts. Generally took 8-12 hours to produce. We called them prototype molds, could be as large as 60 cm x 60 cm x 60 cm. We could injection mold up to around 50,000 parts from them, so they were damn good “prototype” molds, with very clear detail and surfaces to our specs. We literally could sell the products from the molds onto the consumer market, without any concern to quality. They were that good.&nbsp; We also could injection mold powdered metals to make metal items such as knife handles, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>We did this all in North America. However, the machinery, albeit at that time, carried a $6Million price tag, and was available worldwide.</p><p><br /></p><p>We were able to amortize the capital costs through creating injection molds that made everyday product. Then, we also had the added benefit of creating concept prototypes within a 12 hour cycle from finalizing CAD/CAM drawings.</p><p><br /></p><p>With our being able to produce items of this quality and detail 30 years ago, I am not surprised that you could produce quality items today, use artificial weather chambers to age product, and create fake anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>We were saying “The Future is NOW”, 30 years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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