Table of contents
- Honda prints design Clay models from the 3D printer
- Honda prints with clay
- 3D printing on the motorcycle
- Printed carbon fiber
- Printed tires
- opinion poll
- Conclusion
Honda
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Honda Europe Research and Development wants to collaborate with the Italian 3D pioneer WASP. WASP has developed a process for printing clay models.
BMW
2/7
Such elaborate clay models have so far been made 100 percent by hand. At Honda, the clay parts could soon come out of the printer.
3/7
BMW Motorrad uses the technology in the WSBK and, for example, prints chassis parts on the racetrack for on-site testing.
Bugatti
4/7
In 2018, Bugatti produced a brake calliper entirely using the laser coating process. Only the piston running surfaces still have to be reworked.
BMW
5/7
BMW is working intensively on new production processes – including 3D printing. BMW showed what is already feasible at the BMW Group Digital Day 2018.
BMW
6/7
In 2018, the lasered surfaces were still quite rough and uneven. That should have improved significantly by 2021.
7/7
Tire molds are also produced using 3D printing, which allow a much more complex profile than cast or milled molds.
counselor
technology & future
WASP and Honda 3D print clay models
Honda prints design
Clay models from the 3D printer
New motorcycles are elaborately molded from clay by hand during development. WASP from Italy has developed 3D printing techniques that can work with precisely this industrial clay. Honda wants to use this technology.
Jens Kratschmar
04/11/2021
The production method of layer printing can be described as mainstream, at the latest since there have been 3D printers at discount stores. But the industry has moved a long way away from the original material plastic and layer thicknesses in college block format. Very fine constructs can be made nowadays. Even at the nano level, these printers can now produce parts, not to mention vital items such as heart valves or stents for vascular surgery. Even high-strength connections such as brake calipers on high-performance vehicles can be printed from metal. In a broader sense, even tires are made using this method today. Honda would like to use this technology in cooperation with the 3D printing pioneer WASP from Italy for design development: in the model construction of new motorcycles.
Honda prints with clay
Up to now, 3D printing technology has been limited to materials that have been processed viscously and harden quickly: plastics or metal. The liquid plastic is built up in layers via the extruder. With metal technology, however, no hot ore flows out of the nozzle, but a laser beam melts only certain areas in a fine metal powder and thus builds up the workpiece. Honda would like to use the technology of WASP to be able to produce printed parts from the well-known modeling clay in the development and design process. So far, the designs have been roughly created from clay and then elaborately worked out in detail by hand. The printed parts of WASP facilitate the individual steps and at the same time offer the possibility of producing several versions of design ideas at the same time.
MV Agusta
Such elaborate clay models have so far been made 100 percent by hand. At Honda, the clay parts could soon come out of the printer.
3D printing on the motorcycle
However, 3D printing technology is not new in motorcycle construction. Today, motorcycle components are manufactured using these additive processes, especially in prototype construction or test series. The technology is still too expensive for large series. In 2018, BMW has the frame and swing arm of a motorcycle Manufactured using a laser layer process, but only as a show concept. Production technology is actively used at BMW in the World Super Bike, where chassis parts are further developed on the racetrack, prototypes are tested and this data is then processed into a ready-to-use part in the factory.
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Printed carbon fiber
New to the game of printed parts are combinations of conventional plastics such as polycarbonate, ABS or nylon with cut carbon fiber, better known as carbon. This gives the plastic more stability with the same or less weight. The next step is then to make the workpiece from a single, infinite carbon thread. This enables workpieces with half the weight of aluminum with the same thickness – and cheaper to manufacture.
Printed tires
No, it’s not that far yet, but the tire manufacturers are very interested in this process. Even today, the cooking molds for tires are partially produced using a laser layer process. The advantage are fine profile structures for more grip and less rolling resistance due to the possibility of forming the profile groove deeper in the rubber than on the surface. The shapes required for this cannot be produced using conventional casting or milling methods.
Michelin
Tire molds are also produced using 3D printing, which allow a much more complex profile than cast or milled molds.
opinion poll
Who already has experience with 3D printing??
Voted 78 times
Yes. I already have a 3D printer at home.
No. I prefer to mill and turn in the old fashioned way.
Yes. I have to do with it professionally. The stuff is tremendous.
Devil’s work.
Conclusion
It doesn’t take long until motorbikes or even cars come out of the printer. The methods and materials are extremely advanced today.
On the other hand: The principle will be exactly 40 years old in 2021, but there is still no sign of 3D printing permeating our everyday life.
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