Progressive mold shop is a full range of technologies including CNC, high-speed machining and sinker and wire EDM. No one technology is the answer to every moldmaking requirement. 3D Keltool is a complementary technology that is the ideal solution for many applications. And 3D Keltool delivers significant benefits when creating mold inserts or parts with complex shapes and intricate details, that would necessitate a lot of time-consuming EDM work.

The Power of Two Proven Technologies
3D Systems' stereolithography and 3D Keltool are technologies that deliver breakthrough solutions. They enable organizations to revolutionize their product development process by accelerating time-to-market while reducing related costs by as much as 70%. Perfectly complementing 3D Systems' solid imaging and SLA technology, 3D Keltool is an advanced time-compression tooling solution that generates high quality, production tooling inserts for injection molding and die casting applications, directly from stereolithography (and other) master patterns. 3D Keltool is an unparalleled tooling solution, perfect for creating complex part geometries, which can be more time-consuming for a CNC and/or EDM machine.

3D Keltool is the only proven technology capable of creating production steel tool inserts quickly and economically. 3D Keltool inserts have been used in production-tooling runs involving as few as 100 pieces, up to millions of injection molded and die cast parts. Users can leverage the power of two performance-proven processes - stereolithography (SL) and 3D Keltool. This integrated approach to rapid production tooling delivers the speed and accuracy of stereolithography master patterns and the production of sintered metal core and cavity tooling inserts. The result is rapid production tooling inserts created in eight calendar days.