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3D Printing for Engineers & Product Designers
Concept Exploration
Elevate initial ideas with low-risk concept explorations that look like real products. From CAD to physical object in no time, rapidly develop, evaluate, and iterate a range of designs in-house.
Watch the video: How the Concept Cars of Tomorrow Are Made With 3D Printing
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See Also
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How Black Diamond Reduced Costs by 84% With Rapid Prototyping on the Form 3L
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How the Concept Cars of Tomorrow Are Made With 3D Printing
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Producing High-Precision Prototypes for Mechanical Watches Using 3D Printing
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Rapid Prototyping
Looks-Like: Test design iterations and communicate ideas to stakeholders affordably and quickly.
Works-Like: Reliably develop proofs of concept and test functional prototypes with materials closely matching common injection-molded plastics.
Feels-Like: Simulate a range of materials from rubber to rigid, and create prototypes with the smooth finish and feel of end products.
Watch the video: How a 3D Printing Station Supports Hundreds of Engineers at the AMRC
See Also
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Prototyping an Optically Clear Airlock for Homebrewing With 3D Printing
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How Lush Cosmetics Take Ideas From Concept to Reality in Under 24 Hours with 3D Printing
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A Product Development Company Using 3D Printing To Do It All
Pre-Production
Use advanced materials to design for manufacturability. Create small-batch runs or one-off custom solutions for comprehensive field and in-house testing before investing in expensive tooling for production.
Watch the video: Inside Google ATAP: Bridging Pre-Production Challenges With 3D Printing
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See Also
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How a Contract Manufacturer Uses 3D Printed Molds for Low-Volume Production
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How IGESTEK Develops Composite Parts With 3D Printing and Rapid Tooling
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Moving towards production? Learn how 3D printing can be used in manufacturing.
Cut Your Prototyping Cycle to 24 hours
Never again wait weeks for prototypes to arrive from a service provider. With in-house 3D printing, you can create rapid prototypes within a day, run tests, tweak your design, and print again.
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Design
Design your object in CAD during work hours.
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3D Print
3D print the prototype parts overnight.
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Test
Clean, measure, test, create assemblies, and collect feedback on your design in the morning.
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Iterate
Tweak your design and repeat the process.
Save Money and Time
A 3D printer setup can pay for itself in just a couple of weeks or months when you compare it with how much you’d spend on outsourcing or an alternative production method.
9 hours
$80
7 days
$450
Curious to see how much you can save? Try our interactive ROI tool to calculate cost per part and lead time when 3D printing on Formlabs 3D printers.
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6.5 x 5.3 x 5.3 in
A Full Suite of 3D Printing Solutions
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Form 4
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Form 3L
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Fuse 1+ 30W
High-Performance Engineering Materials
Simulate a range of common injection-molded plastics with materials designed for the most demanding applications and produce durable end-use parts and complex assemblies with high environmental stability.
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Draft Resin
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Tough 1500 Resin
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Nylon 12 Powder
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Rigid 10K Resin
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