Firstcut service provides rapid injection-moulded and CNC-machined brass parts
Proto Labs
Firstcut service
Proto Labs’ Firstcut service can provide product designers with rapid injection-moulded and CNC custom-machined prototype brass parts in 1–3 days.
Customers upload their CAD models to Proto Labs’ secure servers via the website to receive a Firstquote — a fully interactive and firm-cost analysis that also contains detailed information for optimising the part design for manufacturing.
As soon as a customer places an order, Firstcut’s software automatically produces the tool paths required to program the CNC machines.
The machining process can also be used on a range of other resins that can be injection moulded, making it suitable for the initial testing of parts that will later be produced in much higher volumes.
For more information on this service, please click the link above to download the PDF.
Key specifications
- System eliminates non-recurring engineering (NRE) costs and delays, making it an affordable process for quantities of between 1 and 10 parts
- As well as brass, Firstcut works with aluminium, plastics and resins
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