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Shaping Materials - Coggle Diagram

- - - - expensive to set up but unit cost very low - mass production
    - - 1) Granules are heated and melted 2) Extruded into a parison 3) Parison is put into mould 4)Air is blown and shape is formed
- - - - Acrylic line bending
    - - Metal bending
  - - - For Thermoplastics (HIPS)
        
        Must have a draft angle so plastic does not get stuck
    - - You just press the heated plastic into the mould and the plastic will reshape
    - - Blowing air in over sucking air out to create a dome or bubble
- - - - Wood
- - - - Can only be done one at a time