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Topic: 3d printed air vent for car

In traditional process: For automotive Industry machining of air vent takes around 3-4 week in soft tooling.
However, to 3D print these parts without using any fixture and assembling take 2 to 3 days & helps reduce the prototyping cost to 1/10th.

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Re: 3d printed air vent for car

kureshsev wrote:

In traditional process: For automotive Industry machining of air vent takes around 3-4 week in soft tooling.
However, to 3D print these parts without using any fixture and assembling take 2 to 3 days & helps reduce the prototyping cost to 1/10th.

Click to View Image

It must be printed using abs or petg. PLA will degrade in the environment present in an automobile.

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