Additive Manufacturing and copying techniques

Additive Manufacturing for the creation of concept cars

Additive manufacturing (also called rapid manufacturing) can be described as the use of layered-based manufacturing technologies such as stereolithography, laser sintering and fused deposition modelling to produce final production components.

The advantages compared to traditional production methods are clear:

• More design freedom (no moulds needed)
• Production of complex geometries becomes easy 
• Faster

A revolution in the creation of concept cars

More and more car manufacturers are using the benefits of additive manufacturing in the production of concept cars. The process opens a new world of design freedom and allows concept cars to be built faster than with the traditional methods. Materialise has already built up a broad knowledge in the field of additive manufacturing for concept cars. Several recent concept cars consist of Materialise additive manufacturing technologies: Pininfarina's Sintesi, Citroën's Hypnos and GT, Renault's Ondelios, Mazda's Kiyora, …

Dedicated services for concept car designers

Design inspiration from .MGX

The inspiration from .MGX will allow you to reconsider many of today's limitations in car design. Your design freedom becomes endlessly as you are not limited by traditional manufacturing constraints.

Read how Renault was able to integrate the .MGX philosophy into their Ondelios concept car

Large parts over 2 meter can be built in one piece

Materialise houses 10 patented Mammoth machines to process stereolithography components with dimensions of 2100 mm x 700 mm x 800 mm in a single piece. 

See how giant automotive parts come to life in our Mammoth movie

Software solutions to optimise your files after design

The position of Materialise is unique in the manufacture of concept vehicles because we have additional experience in developing software solutions for additive manufacturing. You can give us a shell for instance and we find our way to get it built thanks to file fixing and build preparation features in our in-house developed Magics and 3-matic software.

It is time for you to turn your wildest design ideas into tangible concepts 

For France: Contact Nikolas Du Puy Dutour or Jonathan Cornelus
at conceptcar@materialise.fr or tel. +33 4 75 05 00 22

For the rest of Europe: Contact Jurgen Laudus
at conceptcar@materialise.be or tel. +32 16 39 62 72 

We look forward to have an inspiring talk about your next concept car project.