The sheet metal prototyping comes under the manufacturing process and it makes metal sheets into functional parts. For this prototyping, the thickness of the sheet should be 0.006 and 0.025 inches. In this prototyping, it includes several processes like cutting, bending and punching. Apart from the functional prototype, it can be used to create end-use parts.
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