Digital Metal

Custom cast metal parts manufacturer - Instant quotes from CAD files, parts shipped in days.

[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

All told, we turn around finished castings in an active time of just a few days

We do this by automating and compressing front office admin, clever engineering, and classic physical automation.

We built our factory to do this in just 4 months.

Everything we do is a solve for speed.

Digital Metal is the fastest way to get cast metal parts; try us out today (https://t.co/BAjtfN7AnP)

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[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

Once the shell build is complete, we move to burnout and casting.

The whole process is called casting, but this is actually the shortest part. We melt metal and pour it into the ceramic mold we created around the printed tree.

We cut off the part from the sprue, clean up the gating locations, and get ready for final inspection and shipping!

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[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

After our tree is simulation-optimized, we 3D print it in one shot, avoiding costly and workforce-consuming time in pattern assembly (a hidden bottleneck in legacy investment casting)

We then rapidly build an investment casting shell; we do our shell builds in ~6 hours, whereas in legacy shops, it can take 3-5 days.

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[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

Once our customers have checked out, we then immediately prepare the file for manufacturing.

We run custom simulations to identify the solidification front, shrinkage zones, and best gating locations (right)

The software determines the best surfaces for gating and generates primitives into last zones to cool from sim results - combining these is where we generate gates and assemble the complete casting tree (left)

Typical DFM review, gating analysis, simulation, and tree planning is a full-time job for a casting engineer, and can take up to two weeks; we're done just hours after an order is placed.

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[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

Our customers visit our website (https://t.co/BAjtfN7AnP) and upload their CAD files.

Instantly in the browser, we run DFM (design for manufacturability) checks and provide an instant quote and lead time.

The industry average time to quote is 2 weeks; we do it instantly.

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[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

Custom Cast Steel Pulley, 1040 Steel

From a STEP file to a cast metal part in Days.

How do we do it?

A Thread 🧵 (1/6)

[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

Groovy

[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

Introducing instant quote and target DFM feedback for cast metal parts.

Now live in the @digitalmetalinc quote engine.

- Instant pricing on your cast metal part
- Sub 10-second targeted DFM feedback
- Adjust your model, reupload, and order.

Get better cast parts, faster.

[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

Custom Cast Steel Part done by Digital Metal

1040, V-Belt Pulley, "raw" finish.

Coming soon to everyone.

[Brian @bheiligenthal]

Stainless steel, prismatic silicon chips, latticed circuit boards and supersonic rockets. How can you not be romantic about hardtech?

It’s impossible. That’s why we’re starting @heavymetalmag, the first design periodical sharing stories and research from the frontier of critical hardtech. Written from Detroit, c/o @joinrouge.

Heavymetal 001 with @connorkapoor (@digitalmetalinc) is out now. Get a glimpse inside the future of America’s industrial base:

[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

Here's a view of our DFM playground:

Look at our base DFM rulesets, query feature data, and understand local thickness, clearance, and draft.

[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

We built the geometric intelligence layer for manufacturing and AI.

Blazing fast, critical manufacturing data from just a CAD file.

Features:
- Quick DFM & feature checks
- Rapid thickness, clearance, and draft analysis
- Deterministic, configurable rulesets for mfg method
- CNC (3ax & 5ax), Casting, Additive, Molding
- API and MCP

We know it works, the API already powers @digitalmetalinc's Quote engine, cutting the typical lead time for casting quotes from 2 weeks to just 10 seconds.

What others are already using it for:
- RL generative AI CAD models to produce manufacturable designs
- a design Engineering copilot
- a pre-sales tool for large orders of parts.
- other instant quote mfg businesses.

Shipped today. API/MCP integrations available.

[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

Check it out yourself: https://t.co/ntIm3uZtzO

[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

We just dropped the most robust DFM (design for manufacturability) guide for Investment Cast parts.

Super useful for our awesome customers to have all this information right upfront.

Really shows the amazing design freedom we unlock here @digitalmetalinc

[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

https://t.co/mSnysUR5Xr

[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

👀

[Digital Metal @digitalmetalinc]

@connorkapoor come join us at our factory in Austin TX, build the future of cast metal part production!

[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

im hiring again. MechE/Builders

who you are:

> obsessed with how things are made
> going to build something before the CAD is complete
> interested in reindustrializing America

what you get:

> highly competitive salary
> equity
> radical ownership over a problem, and the autonomy to solve it

Shoot me a dm with a link to your favorite project you've built, or reach out over email with the same.

[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

Name on the door 🏭

[Connor Kapoor @connorkapoor]

Hanging our factory flag, we’re going to need a bigger one soon.