Oct 1, 2015 | News, Sign Making, Tooling
-A message from Chuck Miller, CEO of Coastal Enterprises “Over the years Coastal Enterprises has continually worked to improve Precision Board to meet the changing market needs and requirements. In the last few years change has come even faster to designs and tooling...
Sep 24, 2015 | Companion Products, Sculpturing, Sign Making, Tooling
Out technical staff at Coastal Enterprises has received questions frequently in regards to using PB-Fast Set for edge bonding. Here is a quick step by step picture aided explanation of how it’s done. This sample of PBLT-15 was cut into two pieces. Our goal is to use...
Sep 10, 2015 | Tooling, Trade Show
Coastal Enterprises will be exhibiting at the SAMPE High Desert – One Day Symposium. The event will be held at the Antelope Valley Fairground’s Hunter Pavilion, September 30, 2015. Registration Opens at 8:30AM and the keynote speaker begins at 9AM. Admission is...
Sep 1, 2015 | Sculpturing, Tooling, West Coast Customs
“I am the reason criminals breathe easier when the sun rises.” – Batman. A powerful statement from Batman, Arkham Knight is the only appropriate way to introduce this beyond impressive piece of work from West Coast Customs. Made from Precision Board Plus, these...
Aug 13, 2015 | Companion Products, Sculpturing, Sign Making, Tooling
After teaching for 15 years, and being involved in the custom home design industry for 20, Stan Carpenter decided it was time for some real fun, and started sculpting Precision Board Plus. With a background in the custom home design industry working with architects...
Aug 11, 2015 | Companion Products, Sculpturing, Tooling, University
Every year the next generation continues to impress us. After receiving the donated Precision Board Plus from Coastal Enterprises Company, these select creative minds brought life to what was once a block of urethane. Using PBLT hand in hand with 3D Printers, Paper...
Did you know that Coastal Enterprises can fabricate custom support fixtures for bonded blocks of Precision Board? Yes, it’s true! Whether it’s for CNC machining, oven or autoclave curing, tool transportation, lay up tooling, final inspection, or anything in between,...
So you’re working on your surface model, and you are trying to get everything to match up nicely, usually to either G1 (tangent) continuity, or G2 (curvature) continuity. You think things look pretty good, you join them all together, you run ShowEdges to see if your model has any naked edges……and then you use Zebra to check that your edges are continuous in the way you desire. Which, frankly, I think is completely nuts. Allow me to explain.
Jun 7, 2015 | Tooling
Well, it’s time to dust off this blog and get it going again! It’s been way too long. Let’s just say life happens sometimes, but I’m glad to be back at this again. So, to kick off the first post, I’m going to talk about something that we spend a lot of time talking to customers about when we build surfaces from laser scanned data. We’re often asked, “Why do you use Rhino3D to do reverse engineering work, instead of one of the purpose made reverse engineering software platforms?” The short answer comes down to one word – quality.
