Body Exterior and Panel

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Maximize Performance and Enhance Your Brand Value Through Faster Testing and Validation

The exterior of a vehicle has dual functions: its styling conveys the car’s intent and your brand’s value, while the overall form dictates the car’s functionality.

Backed by our considerable automotive expertise, we create additive manufacturing solutions that enable you to optimize exterior form and function using rapid iteration, durable materials, and precise control. Maximize the appeal and performance of your vehicles with 3D printing.

Solve Your Biggest Exterior Body Challenges

Accelerate Design Validation

When refining a design, aerodynamic testing is critical to minimizing drag and effectively directing air where desired, but it often requires an incredible amount of time, effort, and investment. The body exterior and panel application eliminates the tooling expense and labor intensity of traditional prototyping by enabling parts to be built in hours so that you can quickly integrate them into the prototype for rapid iteration.

Exceptional Production Grade Surface Finish and Quality

The ability to offer a range of different surface types can help convey the studio’s intent and differentiate vehicles on the market. Our body exterior solution delivers parts with surfaces that support various post-finishing processes, such as sanding, polishing, plating, and painting. This enables you to validate parts during testing and further optimize style and performance.

Access High-Performance Materials

Traditional development processes constrain automotive designers and engineers with their limited number of available materials. In contrast, our additive solutions offer a broad portfolio of durable materials, from rigid plastics to composites and elastomerics, that have the strength, impact resistance, accuracy, and stability to suit the needs of testing and on-road experiences.

Customize Without Expensive Tooling

Limited series convey exclusivity through exterior styling and optimized performance, yet they also require expensive tooling. Our additive solutions eliminate this cost by making customization easier and more accessible, helping you burnish your brand.

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.

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More Automotive Applications

Metal Structural Components

Body Interior Trim/Panel

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Underhood and Powertrain

EGR Gets Body Exterior Trim Parts Made in Time

When market testing parts on concept cars, the cost and timing of traditional tooling can be prohibitive. EGR had spoilers, bumper protectors, and body kit components 3d printed with thermoplastics in time to gain critical market insights at a major tradeshow.