Application of digital pattern-less molding technology to produce art casting

Compared with the conventional casting process, digital pattern-less casting technology has many advantages such as good machining accuracy, a short processing cycle, and low production cost. It is a new rapid manufacturing technology for castings, integrated with CAD/CAM, casting, CNC machining and many other advanced technologies. With this digital casting technology, no pattern is needed for making molds; it is precise, f lexible, and green. Usually, art castings have complex structures and are made in small batches or even made in a single-piece, especially for large-sized art castings. So it has the shortcomings of high cost, low eff iciency and long time for making a pattern to produce art castings with the conventional casting processes. However, the digital pattern-less casting technology can be applied to fabricate art castings, since it can greatly shorten the manufacturing cycle and lower the production cost, thus having a very good prospect. In this study, based on the digital pattern-less casting technology, a plaque casting with artistic Chinese characters(a Chinese poem) was designed and manufactured, and the production process was demonstrated in detail.

The history and present of art casting in China

History of art casting in china has been over 5000 years. In the past few thousand years, numerous forming and decorating skills of art castings had been created, and left behind precious treasures in the world metal arts and crafts. In individual historical period and at different terrain, a unique artistic style formed, which flashed brilliant light in world artistic treasury.

Contemporary art casting's education in Guangdong

Based on the practical experience of establishing three art casting laboratories in three different colleges of Guangdong,this paper focuses on the development of contemporary art casting's education.By analyzing the reason for the shortage of professionals nowadays and the characteristics of modern foundry industry in the Pearl River Delta,the authors try to find out what kind of knowledge structures a modern foundry industry professional should have.Then,from the viewpoint of education,the authors introduce how to combine the art casting laboratory and the creative art casting course as a new teaching pattern,on the one hand,to attract more students to study casting technology,on the other hand,to train them to be qualified professionals for the modern foundry industry.

Invitation to the 6th China Art Casting Congress 2009 and Call for Papers

Sponsor: Art Casting Technical Committee of China Foundry Association Organizer:Aerosun Corporation Art Statue Division Foundry Journal Agency (CHINA FOUNDRY Journal)Themes: Standardization, Cooperation, Win-Win Success Standardization: Thoroughly implement the 'Quality Standard for Art Casting'.