Ring Making Materials

For direct metal casting, 100% wax pattern materials are considered the standard because they burn out cleanly without leaving ash residue or causing mold expansion defects. This ensures exceptional surface quality and tight dimensional tolerances, minimizing post-cast polishing and precious metal loss during finishing.

Making rings digitally involves modeling the geometry in CAD software, slicing the file in specialized build software such as 3D Sprint, and printing the ring in 100% wax material. Once printed and cleaned of dissolvable support material, the wax ring pattern is prepared for direct investment casting into desired metals.

Digital ring production requires CAD design software, print preparation software such as 3D Sprint, and a high-resolution wax 3D printer like the MJP 2500W or ProJet MJP 300W Plus. Post-processing equipment for batch dissolvable support removal is also used before patterns enter the metal casting furnace.

Pure wax materials melt and burn out reliably within standard casting cycles. Advanced formulations coupled with Surface Enhance technology deliver smoother as-printed surfaces, substantially reducing manual bench polishing requirements, solvent consumption, and gold loss during finishing.

Yes, systems utilizing these wax materials support both rapid prototyping and series production. High throughput printing and batch hands-free dissolvable support removal allow manufacturers to produce multiple detailed ring patterns simultaneously in single production runs.

Ring files are processed using 3D Sprint software, which manages CAD model import, support generation, print queuing, and optimization for MultiJet Printing platforms to ensure high-precision wax pattern production.