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A quality tool, die, or mold begins with quality design. Leech design engineers possess the background and experience necessary to provide the manufacturing industry with an unparalleled source of tooling and mold design. Numerous in-house manufacturing applications necessitate their in-depth understanding and design expertise for each process.

Equipped with high-end technology CAD systems, Leech can quickly provide exacting designs for the highest quality precision tooling, dies and molds to customer specifications. For even greater flexibility, Leech provides file transfer/translation capabilities, enabling system compatibility, increased accuracy, and/or further enhancement. A prototype service is available to assist in product design evaluation and to aid in verifying manufacturing process capability. Leech is ultimately a Design-Build-Run service providing cost-saving manufacturing to customers. By utilizing Leech's single-source options, handling is minimized and efficiency, accuracy and savings are maximized. From design to packaging Leech has long prevailed as one of the most valued and respected manufacturing centers in the industry.

Here is some information to help with questions on what we use for CAD/CAM

AutoCAD

• AutoCAD 2012, Inventor 2012

Mastercam

• X5

SolidWorks

• SolidWorks 2012

The following are the formats of CAD/CAM data that we can utilize in either 2D drawing or a 3D solid models:

Plastic Mold
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  • • .dwg (Standard AutoCAD drawing file)
  • • .dxf (Drawing exchange format)
  • • .iam ( AutoDesk Inventor assembly file)
  • • .idw (AutoDesk Inventor drawing file)
  • • .igs (Initial graphics exchange specification)
  • • .mcx (Mastercam part file)
  • • .par (Solid Edge part file)
  • • .prt (Pro/Engineer part drawing)
  • • .sat (acis format)
  • • .sldprt (Solid Works part file)
  • • .stp (Step format)
  • • .x_t (Parasolid format)

Other File formats that we can utilize:

  • • .pdf ( Adobe Acrobat)
  • • .tif (Image File)

Any questions should be directed to:

Tooling
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Progressive stamping die
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