Monday, November 1, 2010

Urbee Is the First Car Made By a 3-D Printer



3-D printing has already resulted in advances in manufacturing (as well as tiny stop-motion animation), but now taking it one step further is the Urbee hybrid: the world’s first 3-D printed car, developed by Kor Ecologic and Stratasys.

The Urbee was created using Stratasys’ Dimension 3-D printers and Fortus 3-D Production System. The full-scale prototype is not yet complete, but all of the exterior components, including the glass, will be entirely printed by additive manufacturing – printing layer upon layer of material until you end up with a car in front of you.

more info in popsci

1 comments:

David from Quillcards said...

I saw a 3D printer on show at an exhibition in 2006 at the Jerusalem Museum. They were showing objects with a flat area about as big as a standard photocopier. It is great to see how the designs have scaled up.

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