Learn About Aluminium Design
Designing with aluminium offers countless possibilities and opportunities.
Learn the fundamentals of extrusion design and the processes involved with our collection of easy to follow guides and advice.
Extrusion Basics
Extrusion 101
Learn the basics of Aluminium Extrusion. Our 101 guide takes you through extrusion process from start to finish.
Benefits
Understand the benefits of using Aluminium. There are so many great reasons to choose aluminium extrusions.
Design Basics
Designing an extrusion? Follow our design guides. Applying these elements to your design will help ensure your profiles are extrudable.
Design Tips
Considerations to make. Take a closer look at all of the aspects you should consider when designing an extrusion.
Technical
Alloys
Discover the importance of selecting the right alloy. There are many factors to learn about selecting the right alloy for your project.
Tolerances
Understand the importance of dimensional tolerances. Tolerances are crucial to the success of your part being extruded.
Joining
Not sure how to join your extrusions?We uncover various methods of joining Aluminium Extrusions
Calculating the Weight
We've put together a simple method on how to calculate the weight of aluminium extrusions.
Finishing
Anodising
Want to learn more about anodising aluminium? Anodising aluminium holds many benefits and can even add dimensions to your part.
Surface Treatments
Use our guide to help select which surface finish you should apply to your profile.