LESSON 9.3 · 1:43 · CHAPTER 9 · TOOLS, RECYCLING AND WHAT'S NEXT
Print it solid and the advantage evaporates
The cost advantage comes from the skin-and-rib design; print the tool solid and most of it goes.
Predict · at 0:34 in the video
Ohio State and Honda printed a solid glass fibre PC stamping toolset, and costed it against steel at 20,500 dollars. What did they save?
About eleven percent. 18,150 dollars, against 20,500 for steel. For all the effort, not much.
Further reading
This course is our own. These books go deeper.
- The economics of Big Area Additive Manufacturing, Post et al., Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, 2016
- Additively manufactured carbon fibre-reinforced composites: state of the art and perspective, van de Werken et al., Composites Part A, 2020
About the numbers
Simulations in this lesson are our own. Where a number rests on an assumption or a single source, the video marks it with an asterisk and says where it comes from.
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