Plastic can also be used to build a 3D printing technology for cars
Plastic can also be used to build a 3D printing technology for cars
If someone told you that a car could actually be printed out, would you think he was dreaming? But this seemingly impossible thing has been realized. Strati, a little-known foreign company, has built a real electric car through 3D printing.
Before that, perhaps no one had ever heard of the company called Strati. A few days ago, held in Chicago international manufacturing technology exposition (IMTS), the company released the world's first car manufactured by 3 d printing, and take it away from the venue on the spot.
In appearance, the design of the car is quite wild. The open body design makes it look more like a beach car. If you take the whole car apart, you'll be surprised to find that the entire car is made up of only 40 parts. Compared with the 20,000 components of traditional cars, this will undoubtedly significantly reduce the production cost and maintenance costs of the car manufacturers.
The car's body, seat and main structural components are all printed. After the initial print, the body parts need to be polished and polished, and the process takes 44 hours to print. After that, the process of hand assembling and cutting and milling will still need to be carried out. It will take five days to complete the whole process from printing to leaving the production line.
At present, traditional craft production can be completed in a few hours if only the time in the production line. The production can be completed within one day if the internal parts of the factory are included. So if that's the case, the "Strati" company doesn't have any advantages over five days of production.
However, it is important to note that no vendor in the world can complete all parts of a vehicle independently. Big to engine, transmission parts, such as small to some electronic components, all need cooperation completed numerous manufacturers, if you count these parts production and shipping time, so time will be far more than 3 d printing manufacturing time. And the technology is only in its infancy, and there is no perfect system. If I had matured, I would have believed that time would have been greatly reduced, if ford had been a model T.
Edit comments: although 3 d printing technology, just at the concept stage, but the biggest advantage of this concept is that in the future may be a car most of the parts, are concentrated in a workshop in the production. More plasticity and variability is also the biggest advantage of 3D printing technology.
