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Posted by: Jim on: 10/31/2012 04:39 PM
This is a post from the Materialise blog from back in 2.2011, but we hadn't seen before. The two companies got together to print the GT by Citroën, a concept car and the Garand Turismo 5 game.
"One of the best selling and most exciting racing games out there is Gran Turismo 5. And one of the most remarkable cars in that racing game has to be the GT by Citroën. In 2008, Citroën, Polyphony (the makers of the game) and Materialise joined forces and the virtual racecar was turned into a real fully-functional car. Later that year, the five-meter long concept car made its global premiere at the Paris Motor Show. We do a lot of 3D printing work on concept cars but are sadly almost never allowed to talk about it. Luckily, this time, we’ve been given permission to show you how 3D printing was used to create a large portion of this supercar."
The company used a massive Mammoth stereolithography machine, that has the capability to print parts up to 2 meters in length.
The photos below are the actual printed car.
Check out the full blog post here; http://i.materialise.com/blog/entry/3d-printing-a-supercar
"One of the best selling and most exciting racing games out there is Gran Turismo 5. And one of the most remarkable cars in that racing game has to be the GT by Citroën. In 2008, Citroën, Polyphony (the makers of the game) and Materialise joined forces and the virtual racecar was turned into a real fully-functional car. Later that year, the five-meter long concept car made its global premiere at the Paris Motor Show. We do a lot of 3D printing work on concept cars but are sadly almost never allowed to talk about it. Luckily, this time, we’ve been given permission to show you how 3D printing was used to create a large portion of this supercar."
The company used a massive Mammoth stereolithography machine, that has the capability to print parts up to 2 meters in length.
The photos below are the actual printed car.
Check out the full blog post here; http://i.materialise.com/blog/entry/3d-printing-a-supercar
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