AUTOMOTIVE
Thorough, innovative design and engineering requires precise, reliable technology solutions. 3D Systems end-to-end solutions for automotive design, prototyping and production help automakers pioneer in the fast lane.
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The quest to out-innovate competitors and reduce costs for every aspect of product development are business as usual in the automotive industry. These demands are complicated by factors such as stricter environmental regulations, rising costs of raw materials, and the ongoing need to reduce time-to-market.
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3D Systems has unparalleled experience in addressing the challenges of the automotive industry. Our hardware, software and services solutions are helping companies develop lighter weight parts to drive down manufacturing costs, design and produce innovative assemblies that reduce part counts and provide greater strength and efficiency, and create realistic prototypes that can remove months from the product development process.
3D Systems Gentle Giant team delivers a long history of expert scanning, design and manufacturing teams to leverage movie FX, prop and figurine design, production, mass manufacturing and marketing of licensed property.
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3D digital technologies are enabling gaming, TV and movie studios to satisfy their wildest creative imaginings faster and more efficiently than ever before. Applications include recreating real-world objects and characters, constructing virtual sets, devising elaborate fantasy worlds, and 3D-printing objects that would be impossible to cost-effectively construct by other means.
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3D Systems products and services permeate the worldwide entertainment industry, providing cutting-edge 3D scanning, modeling and 3D printing for greater realism or flights of the imagination. The experts at 3D Systems' Gentle Giants studios have provided a host of 3D scanning services for a wide range of entertainment media, as well as 3D scanning, modeling and printing for related merchandise.
Renault enhances performance with topology optimization in partnership with We Are Group
The Challenge
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Sahara Force India F1™ Team to bring more performance to the car.
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The pace of Formula One (F1™) development is rivaled only by the speeds achieved on the racetrack.
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The Solution
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Sahara Force India F1™ Team Crosses The Finish Lines With 3D Systems’ SLA 3D Printing
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3D printing has saved Sahara Force India F1™ considerable time and money in the development and testing of new designs
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The Challenge
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Creating Replacement Parts for Vintage Automobiles
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Using traditional methods to manufacture replacement parts for classic and hand-built cars, some of them more than 100 years old, can get very costly, very quickly.
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The Solution
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3D Systems Delivers End-to-End Solutions for Jay Leno's Team
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The Leno team integrates end-to-end 3D Systems solutions into its renovation workflow to speed production and lower costs of end-use parts and casting patterns for vintage vehicles.
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The Challenge
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Improving Assembly Verification for Heavy Duty Commercial Trucks
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Complex assemblies such as vehicle pipe routing are difficult to visualize and design in CAD to ensure precise clearances.
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The Solution
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Daimler Uses MultiJet Printing to Mock-Up Truck Components
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A 3D Systems ProJet printer condenses time required for assembly verification and training, shaving weeks off of the mock-up phase of pre-production.
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The Challenge
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Turning Wildly Imaginative Designs Into Physical Motorcycle Reality
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There’s a moment that automotive designers dread: When their ideal design bumps up against manufacturing reality.
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The Solution
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Confederate Motors Teams with 3D Systems to Create Extraordinary Motorcycle Forms
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3D Systems On Demand Manufacturing helps fuel design innovation, saves thousands in tooling costs, and enables just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing of assembly kits comprising 140 different parts.
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The Challenge
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Renault Sport Formula One Team bring designs out of minds and into testing without wasting its most precious and limited resource
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Each year, Renault Sport Formula One Team designs and builds a new car responding to rule changes and the natural R&D cycle aimed at improving car performance
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The Solution
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3D Printed Investment Casting Patterns in Formula One Racing
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3D Systems QuickCast investment casting patterns accelerate the design and development of on car parts
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The Challenge
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Formula One racing is an endurance engineering sport fueled by relentless innovation.
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Team works tirelessly to reach and beat an ever-evolving standard of peak performance, and the spirit is no different at Renault Sport Formula One Team.
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The Solution
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3D Printing Productivity Drives R&D at Renault Sport Formula One Team
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Partnership with 3D Systems speeds development and fuels innovation from wind tunnel testing to flow rigs to robust on-car parts.
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The Challenge
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Making Product Parts Faster Than With Traditional Casting
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English Racing designed an innovative new under-drive pulley gear that would lower oil pressure. But producing it with traditional casting would be too time consuming and cost prohibitive.
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The Solution
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MTI Uses Direct Metal Printing to Produce Installed Part in 3 Days
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The part was installed on the Mitsubishi Evo race car and worked perfectly, reducing oil pressure to safe levels and helping the vehicle to set speed records in its class
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