CNC Machining
CNC Machining services for your prototypes, jigs, fixtures & nests and even low volume or start-up manufacturing.
Materials
Rely on Broadview Product Development for your quick turn CNC machining needs. Custom parts made to your specification with short lead times.
We can cut from your CAD files or our engineers can help design your product for you.
Our machinists and CNC equipment can handle simple to complex prototypes and low volume runs in a variety of materials and finishes. Whatever the size of your project, we can help you with it.
- Aluminum Alloys (6061, 7075 and many more)
- Steel Alloys
- Stainless Steel
- Non-Ferrous Metals (Copper, Brass etc.)
- Plastics (PVC, Delrin, Acrylic, Polycarb, UHMW, Nylon)
- Phenolics
Finishing Options
- Media Blasting/Sand Blasting/Tumbling
- Polishing
- Painting
- Anodized
- Powder Coating
- Plating
- Heat Treatment
Urethane casting can be lower cost and higher quality than 3D-printing alone with low cost tooling and parts in as little as 3-5 days.
Many production plastic materials can be simulated through Silicone Urethane Casting (RTV) from shore-A 20 elastomeric rubber to hard injection molded plastics, from water clear to tinted to opaque, even color matched, or glass fiber fillers for additional strength when needed.
Ideal for quantities from 10 to 1000 that look, feel, and perform like production injection molded parts.
Urethane casting is also ideal for low volume production, start-ups, and even custom manufacturing fixtures and tools.
Urethane Casting
Get Production representative parts in rapid time.
Urethane Finishing options include
- Clear, Opaque, Custom Colors
- Sand and/or blasting to any level
- Applied textures, stipples
- Polishing from matte to high gloss
- Lenses, Polished, clear-coat
3D Printing - SLA
(3D-Systems Stereolithography)
Available materials
- Accura Clearview for clear 3D-printed prototyes such as lenses
- Accura Xtreme for highly detailed prototypes with great finishing characteristics along with strength and flexibiliity
- Somos PerForm for high temperature applications
available finishing options
- Sand and/or blasting to any level
- Applied Textures, Stipple to patterns
- Chroming or Metalizing
- Polishing from matte to high gloss
- Lens-clear polishing and clear coat
Broadview utilizes commercial SLA printers to bring your projects to life. Due to it’s high level of detail and ease of finishing SLA parts are often used for show samples, client presentations, direct use, and are often used as master patterns for mold making. We offer a variety of materials from this process to fit your needs.
3D Printing - FDM
(Stratasys FDM)
Broadview utilizes commercial FDM 3D printers to produce quality prototypes within your timeline.
FDM Printing Material Options
- ABS M30 (Black is Standard but additional colors are optional)
- PC (White)
- Nylon 12(Black)
- ABS-ESD7 (black, electrostatic dissipative)
- ASA (many colors avalable, UV stable)
- PC-ABS (black)
- PPSF & ULTEM 9085 (heat and chemical resistant)
FDM printed prototypes are great for applications such as engineering testing, design evaluation, environmental testing, fit form & function evaluation, jigs fixtures & nests for production along with sales shows or presentations.
Additional 3D Printing
- SLS (Selective Laser Sintering) in Nylon, NylonGF
- Polyjet - Objet
- Jet Fusion (HP 3D-Printing in Nylon)
- CLIP 3D-Printing (Carbon3D)
- DMLS (Direct Metal Laser Sintering)
We will 3D-Print your design, and our engineers can provide design services for you when needed. With our fast turn-around quality 3D-printing combined with our finishing capabilities we will create the prototypes you need on-time, and on-budget.
Jigs and Fixtures
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Broadview product development has the know-how in manufacturing; utilizing our vast engineering expertise in combination with our in house prototype manufacturing model shop we are able to optimize your manufacturing process.