Leverage 3D Printed Automotive Components to Optimize and Deliver New Innovations to Market
58%
fewer development costs for critical systems
10x
acceleration of product development projects
50%
less weight/inertia of the drive shaft

Meet the Challenge of Rapid Innovation in Today’s Automotive Industry

New mobility solutions and ecosystems are redefining the industry and making rapid innovation essential.

Our consultative approach to engineering and additive manufacturing technology can give you the competitive advantage you need to meet this challenge. We will empower you to drive manufacturing productivity, lower costs, and develop new designs that optimize performance and create the unique experiences your customers demand. 

Applications of Additive Manufacturing in the Automotive Industry

Underhood / Powertrain Underhood / Powertrain Optimize the performance of propulsion, drivetrain, and surrounding components through rapid iteration while meeting high-temperature and flame-resistant requirements. Our additive manufacturing solutions allow you to produce durable 3D-printed parts quickly, helping you gain a competitive advantage and protect your intellectual property. Underhood and Powertrain Applications
Body Interior and Trim Body Interior and Trim Optimize your cabin’s physical, functional, and visual experience. Without requiring expensive tooling, our additive manufacturing solutions allow you to create better concept car prototypes. You can make these with realistic texture and surface finishes that can be printed, plated, painted, and wrapped directly. Additionally, you can create innovations such as fastening systems and integrated latching to provide new design methods for manufacturing and service. Body Interior Trim and Panels Applications
Body Exterior and Panel Body Exterior and Panel Our broad portfolio of durable materials enables you to produce rigid exterior panels for concept car components that don’t deform over large surfaces. This capability allows you to direct air where it’s needed, reduce drag, and ultimately maximize aerodynamic performance while maintaining precise control over Class A exterior style. Sensory mounts can also be added, giving you a unique and innovative way to collect additional analytics. Body Exterior and Panel Applications
Metal Structural Components Metal Structural Components Create high-performance structural systems by leveraging an accurate and efficient 3D printing process, allowing you to produce lightweight parts and reduce inertia while increasing overall strength. Further enhance your manufacturing process with access to a wide range of metal alloys, enabling you to leverage efficient and effective post-processing and cleaning. Metal Structural Components Applications
Air and Fluid Handling Air and Fluid Handling Optimize fluid management to maximize the use of valuable package space. With our innovative air and fluid handling solutions, you can produce complex geometries that represent design intent and test them to validate component and system performance. Your parts not only allow for valuable concept evaluation but will also withstand environmental extremes and the pressures and flows while providing the chemical compatibility and stability needed over time. Air and Fluid Handling Applications
Manufacturing Aids Manufacturing Aids Manufacturing aids like robot grippers, jigs, fixtures, and locators are required to perform reliably in a challenging environment. These items are subjected to forces, wear, and chemicals that stress some additive materials and technologies. Components are often tailored but also modified, stressing traditional tool making and inventory systems. With our additive solutions for manufacturing aids, you can save time, money, and labor by tailoring tools such as jigs, fixtures, grippers, and locators to improve the overall assembly process, withstand the working conditions, while allowing operations to optimize replacements kept on hand. Manufacturing Aids Applications
Energy and Fluid Management (Metals) Energy and Fluid Management (Metals) Maximize the performance of fluid and energy management with our metal additive manufacturing solutions. You can create strong, corrosive-resistant streamlined metal components that optimize energy, flow, and heat in your propulsion systems. The components produced with our solutions handle high temperatures, harsh conditions, and various fluids—while easily fitting in constrained spaces. Energy and Fluid Management - (Metals) Applications
Metal Durable Tooling Metal Durable Tooling Create durable tools such as injection mold and die-cast tool inserts that perform in ways unachievable with traditional tool making, and build them in a fraction of the time. Advanced tools with innovations like conformal cooling often necessitate innovative production methods to deliver quality parts at production volume. With the short lead times of 3D-printed durable tooling, you can accelerate the iteration and innovation of these advanced tools. Metal Durable Tooling Applications

  • Application Innovation Group

    Our team can help you solve your most difficult design and production challenges with additive manufacturing solutions. Together we’ll identify your needs, working with you to optimize your designs, prototype, validate and define a manufacturing flow.
    Find Out More

Collaborating with You to Enhance Automotive Design and Development

  • Solutions that Solve Automotive Challenges

    Whether you require high-precision parts at scale or tough thermoplastics that replicate automotive-grade production plastic, our additive manufacturing technology is built to help you design, test, and iterate components quickly and efficiently. Reduce the time it takes to produce high-performance automotive parts from days or weeks to hours.

  • Accelerate Automotive Innovation

    New powertrain technologies are creating exciting opportunities while producing daunting engineering challenges. With a large variety of advanced materials and additive technologies, the ability to increase testing and iteration, and greater production flexibility, our additive technology makes it easier to develop cutting-edge 3D auto components that deliver performance mobility innovations.

  • Leverage our Automotive and Additive Expertise

    Our team provides more than just products—we also provide a holistic portfolio of solutions with the experience and expertise to help you solve automotive problems and deliver value efficiently and effectively. We can help you use our additive technology to improve the driving experience and enhance productivity in many ways, such as by reducing component parts, lowering manufacturing variability, decreasing weight, and managing packaging constraints. We are committed to giving you a competitive advantage.

Ultimate Hypercar Uses 3D Printing to Produce Titanium Gearboxes

Performance and quality led every engineering decision on the Rodin FZERO. To optimize for weight and function, Rodin Cars used 3D Systems’ metal additive manufacturing for nearly all metal components, including the eight-speed sequential gearbox – an industry first.

Learn More

Watch One of Our Automotive Webinars

Talk to an Expert

I consent to receive 3D Systems Communications
Would you like to receive special offers, product updates, and event news from 3D Systems? By clicking "Yes", you agree to receive follow-up communications from 3D Systems or our partners. You can also choose to opt out of communications at any time. Please click here to view our Privacy Policy or click here to manage your Preferences.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA. The Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.