What If You Could:

  • Significantly accelerate manufacturing timelines

  • Manufacture parts without needing your own production line

  • Drive productivity and efficiency with 3D printed end-use parts

How Our Customers Did It:

Planetary Resources

Challenge

Low-cost robotic space exploration requires significantly optimized complex parts and assemblies to create lighter-weight, more fuel-efficient space travel

Solution

SLA QuickCast™ materials for rapid aerospace casting patterns, ProJet 7000 SLA printer for plastic prototypes, and a ProX DMP for direct metal 3D printing.

Benefit

Massive time savings from being able to go from CAD to pattern in a single day. Faster design iterations by eliminating tooling and access to any type of alloy for lighter-weight parts

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T-Hawk UAV

Challenge

Achieve unprecedented weight-to-strength ratios in unmanned aerial vehicles through advanced manufacturing technologies.

Solution

Rapid SLS 3D printing, lightweight printer materials, post processing and assembly provided with 3D Systems.

Benefit

Efficiently met the stringent weight requirements but also significantly reduced complexity by creating single-build assemblies within the UAV.

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