finishing treatment

Finishing Treatment

Finishing treatment, or surface treatment, is a post or secondary treatment for parts for aesthetic, protective, or other purposes, usually involving one or more processes done by handwork or specific machines in prototyping and low-volume production.

At X Rapid Technologies, there are over 30 handcraft specialists to have your parts post-finished, from de-flashing to pre-fitting, including gluing, filling, sanding, modifying, painting, measuring, and assembling per your demand.

We offer finishing treatments such as painting, bead blasting, brushing, electroplating, water electroplating, nickel plating, powder coating, laser etching, silk screening, pad printing, etc. With our customized surface treatments, prototypes can look like real products. These kinds of prototypes are often called appearance prototypes, which are mainly used to test the appearance design, show in the exhibition, show them to investors, and so on. However, some surface treatments for metal parts are not for good-looking, but to form a protective layer to avoid rusting.

Painting

finishing treatment

With painting, you can achieve matte, semi-matte, glossy (high-gloss), a variety of colors, textures...

Suitable material: any material

Bead Blasting

finishing treatment

Bead blasting adds a uniform grit post finishing which covers the machining marks. It gives the surf...

Suitable material: any material

Brushing

finishing treatment

The surface of a brushed part shows a unidirectional satin finish. The metal surface obtains a non-m...

Suitable material: metal

Anodizing

finishing treatment

Anodizing, which is used to add the thickness of the natural oxide layer on the surface of metal par...

Suitable material: metal

Electroplating

finishing treatment

Electroplating adds a metallic coating to the surface of the parts to increase their corrosion resis...

Suitable material: metal, plastic

Silk Screening

finishing treatment

Through silk screening, logos and characters can be manually printed on the surface of the parts. It...

Suitable material: metal, plastic

Not every prototype needs to be post-finished.

  No matter you want your parts to be as machined or cosmetic looking, feel free to tell us your demands of finishing treatments.

  X Rapid Technologies is always ready to offer you the best finishing treatment solution.

Finishing Treatment FAQs

The surface treatments for plastic parts are usually de-burring, bead blasting, powder coating, painting, electroplating, silk screening, laser etching, etc. You can contact us to check if the finishing you want is available.

The surface treatments for plastic parts are usually de-burring, bead blasting, powder coating, painting, brushing, anodizing, electroplating, silk screening, laser etching, etc. You can contact us to check if the finishing you want is available.

Sure. Surface treatments in rapid prototyping can make parts the same as the product via a steel mold.

In some cases, finishings will affect the tolerances. Take anodizing for an example. Anodizing adds a layer to the part surface, which increases the thickness, thus changing the tolerances. So it is advised to take finishings into consideration while doing engineering. Whenever you are not sure about the surface treaments, contact us for detailed information.

It depends on your purposes of rapid prototyping. If you want to verify the structure design, no extra post treatments are needed. Just leave the parts as machined. If you want to verify the appearance design, surface treatments are necessary. X Rapid Technologies will offer the proper finishing solutions per your demand.

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