Resin casting lets you produce parts that would be otherwise impossible to make without a full CNC and injection molding set-up. It costs about as much as a 3d printer, 300 to 600 US dollars, to get a ...

3D printing has made it incredibly easy to produce small runs of plastic parts, but getting rid of the 3D printed look can be tricky and time-consuming. When you need a smooth and polished finish, or ...

BMW Group brands 3D-print metal & plastic parts for some exclusive cars. Additive Manufacturing Campus near Munich features 50 metal & polymer printers. High cost of Laser Beam Melting means ...

Forty years ago, Matty Holtzberg, a young car enthusiast with a burning curiosity, visited the Hackensack, New Jersey, public library for a little light reading. His discovery - a technical journal ...

Synthetic-quartz-composite mixtures cast to tolerance and use less energy than casting iron. The dark days of energy-hogging, poorly toleranced cast parts are over. A new casting method dampens ...

Unlike BMW, NIO and XPeng seem convinced that massive casting parts may give them a manufacturing edge. Although they have not confessed they would adopt such components, some hints point in that ...