The 3D printer speeds up facelifts automakers

Posted on 10-06-2013 at 18:29 by sir_smokalot – 23 Comments”

The world is getting faster, and the competition is fierce, especially in the automotive sector. If you, as a manufacturer, the board missed the mark a bit with a volumemodel, you should have a quick straighten. It just happened to Chevrolet with the Malibu, and thanks to the 3D printer ramden them there in record time for a facelift.

‘Oh, so we now all cars with a 3D printer?’ No, not yet on such a large scale. Interior components of a single prototype, however, which can of course come off the printer rollers.

So take the number of useful applications of the device. It’s not only death and destruction in the form of guns from the printer, pizzas and even life-saving luchtpijpjes belong to the possibilities.

The design team at Chevrolet made eager use of the technique for a fraction of the cost of time of traditional test items (clay models) are just their things to be printed. Quite handy, that progress. Watch how this went, accompanied by the dullest presenter ever, on autojunk!