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How Audi is Using 3D Printing in Car Manufacturing

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Read and see more at: https://3dprint.com/79839/audi-3d-printing/ In many places 3D printers, which manufacture objects from plastic powder, have already been in use for several years. A new development, though, is the 3D printer that Audi installed at Toolmaking. The printer uses a laser melting process to produce metal components whose complex geometries – as seen in cooling ducts, for example – make it hardly possible (if at all) to manufacture them with conventional processes.


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