Posted on November 16, 2019 By Youde
Surface finishing is a broad range of industrial processes that alter the surface of a manufactured item to achieve a certain property. surface finishing is a process for artificially forming a surface layer with different mechanical, physical and chemical properties on the surface of the substrate. The purpose of surface treatment is to meet the corrosion resistance, wear resistance, decoration or other special functional requirements of the product.
【1】 Paiting
Painting is the most common and simple process; it has a quite strict requirement for the effect of painting. First of all, the color should be novel, especially the digital prototypes. It basically uses plastic paint with metal texture.
【2】Oxidation
Oxidation is actually anodizing, aluminum is easy to oxidize under natural environment, so the oxidation treatment is mainly for the aluminum parts.
【3】Brushing
Brushing is a process that make a number of varying stripes on the surface of prototypes, which looks beautiful. Brushing is common process on metal products. It is mostly made by manual brushing;
【4】Plating
Electroplating is mainly divided into water plating, vacuum plating, and ion plating. Water plating is more commonly used in plastic materials; vacuum plating is easy to control the thickness of the coating; ion plating can only be used for metal materials.
【5】Biting flowers
The bite flower is mainly used for plastic materials, and it is mainly white, black and gray, extremely common in rapid prototyping.
【6】 Silk screen
The graphic and LOGO are printed on the surface of product by pure hand.
【7】Laser carving
Need to make the translucent characters and engrave characters on the metal surface, so need to use the laser engraving process;
【8】Sandblasting
On a smooth surface, it is sandblasted and then oxidized or plated to make it look beautiful.
Rapid prototyping have the structure prototypes and the appearance prototypes. Generally, the structure prototypes don't need make surface treatment, but the appearance prototypes need to be processed by the above surface processes, so that it can be used for prototypes display.
Youde offers a wide variety of surface treating to ensure that your parts meet all of their structural and appearance requirements. Contact us today to learn more how Youde make your prototyping part. We would be happy to discuss your project details and provide a no-obligation quote for our services.
