Applications & Case studies
All applications and case studies of 3D printing, describing how current users are using 3D Printing, and how it can potentially benefit you.
3D Printing in the Railway Industry
A passenger coach is built to run for thirty or forty years. The company that moulded its armrest end caps may not last ten. Somewhere in…
Vijay Raghav Varada · 5 min read3D Printing in Dentistry: Models, Aligners and Surgical Guides
Dentistry adopted 3D printing earlier and more completely than almost any other field, for a simple reason: every patient is a one-off. A crown, an aligner,…
Vijay Raghav Varada · 4 min read3D Printing for Entertainment: Props, Costumes and Sets
A prop department has always been a small factory that makes each thing once. A helmet for one scene, a weapon that has to look right…
Vijay Raghav Varada · 4 min read3D Printing in Jewellery: Investment Casting and Direct Printing
Jewellery was one of the first trades to make money from 3D printing, and it did so quietly, by replacing one step in a process that…
Vijay Raghav Varada · 4 min read3D Printing for Monument Conservation: 530 Karnataka Sites
3D printing for monument conservation is the largest application of our technology outside engineering and medicine, and it began with a partnership announced in March 2024…
Ishaan Pilar · 3 min read3D Printing in Manufacturing: Tooling, Aids, Small Batches
3D printing in manufacturing pays for itself on the parts nobody puts on a bill of materials: the fixture that holds the assembly, the guide that…
Ishaan Pilar · 4 min read3D Printing in Aerospace: Cabin Parts, Ducts and Tooling
3D printing in aerospace is famous for the parts that fly: the fuel nozzle, the titanium bracket, the consolidated manifold. Those parts exist, they are metal,…
Ishaan Pilar · 4 min read3D Printing in the Automotive Industry: Where It Pays
3D printing in the automotive industry has settled into three jobs it does better than anything else: prototypes that arrive in days, tooling that a plant…
Ishaan Pilar · 4 min readHow Porsche 3D Printed Pistons for the 911 GT2 RS
Porsche's 3D printed pistons are the clearest case yet of additive manufacturing improving an engine that had already been optimised for decades. In 2020 Porsche, working…
Ishaan Pilar · 4 min read3D Printing in Healthcare: Models, Guides, Devices, Implants
3D printing in healthcare divides into four things, and it helps to keep them apart: anatomical models that surgeons plan on, guides and instruments used in…
Ishaan Pilar · 4 min read
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