Casting Shrinkage
The casting comes out smaller than the pattern, because an alloy takes up less room solid than liquid. How much depends on the alloy: silver 925 shrinks about 1.6 percent, 9K gold about 2.1. That is why the model is enlarged before printing, not corrected after casting.
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