Choosing Your Material: The Most Common Aluminum Alloy for Machining and Strategic Metal/Plastic Comparison
The moment a design concept moves from a digital file to physical reality, the most critical variable becomes the material. A material’s characteristics—its hardness, thermal conductivity, stiffness, and density—dictate the entire manufacturing strategy, the tooling required, the machine rigidity needed, and ultimately, the cost and performance of the finished part. Engineers seeking production must possess […]