Modix MAMA XL-3000Automotive and aviation

Print three-meter parts in one piece.

Automotive and aerospace tooling, patterns and prototypes with up to 3,000 mm of continuous build length: styling bucks, low-temperature molds and assembly fixtures, on a static bed that keeps the part still while it prints.

▸Less sectioning and bonding on large parts
▸Engineering and fiber-filled pellets, up to 3 kg/h peak
▸Validate material, accuracy and finish with an application engineer

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3,000 mm of continuous build length

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Modix MAMA XL-3000 large-format pellet 3D printer with an operator beside it for scale — **Automotive and aviation**Bucks, molds, fixtures, prototypes

**Automotive and aviation**Bucks, molds, fixtures, prototypes

The MAMA line

Three lengths. One pellet platform.

Every MAMA runs the pellet and the filament head on the same electronics and the same program. Pick the length your parts need, or let the application assessment pick it.

Studio and shop floor

MAMA-1000

1,000 × 1,000 × 1,000 mm39.4 × 39.4 × 39.4 in

One cubic meter of build volume
Pellet extrusion up to 3 kg/h

See the MAMA-1000 →

Furniture scale

MAMA-1700

1,700 × 1,000 × 1,000 mm66.9 × 39.4 × 39.4 in

1.7 m continuous print length
Lower feedstock cost than equivalent filament

See the MAMA-1700 →

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MAMA XL-3000

3,000 × 1,000 × 1,000 mm118.1 × 39.4 × 39.4 in

3 m continuous single-piece parts
Full enclosure system included

Build length to scale

3 mBuild length3,000 × 1,000 × 1,000 mm

3 kg/hPeak pellet outputLogged prints average 1.15 to 1.4 kg/h

$2 to $8Per kg of pelletsTypical, by grade and quantity. Filament: $20 to $80

For lifeTechnical supportSpare parts and upgrades available

Duet 3 electronicsHIWIN linear railsBondtech extrusionCE and EMC certifiedSupport in North America, Europe and APAC

Automotive and aviation

Built for automotive and aerospace tooling, patterns and prototypes.

Styling bucks, layup tools, patterns and fixtures are where sectioning, bonding and outsourced CNC cost the most time. The XL-3000 prints them in one piece. Functional flight or road parts have their own requirements: the application review says what applies to yours.

Styling bucks and panel prototypes

Full-size bucks, panel prototypes and wind-tunnel shapes without bonded segments.

Layup tools and molds

Low-temperature tools and patterns, printed slightly oversize and finished.

Aerospace tooling and mock-ups

Layup tools, cabin mock-ups and fit-check prototypes at full scale, light enough to lift by hand.

Fixtures and checking jigs

Assembly fixtures as long as the part they hold, on a static bed.

Bonded from sections

×Jigs and fixtures built just to hold the sections
×Bond lines that often become the weak point
×Hours of fitting, filling and sanding per joint
×Tolerance stacking across every interface

Printed on an XL-3000

✓One continuous part, up to 3,000 mm
✓No bonded joints between printed sections
✓Post-processing on the surface, not the seams
✓No tolerance build-up from aligning sections

What you buy

You get a solution to your needs.

We review your application, recommend a material and printer configuration, and quote a validation print. Once the application is approved, we build your MAMA XL-3000, commission it on site and train your operators.

Needs evaluation

We review your part, material, finish and production requirements, and tell you whether a MAMA is the right tool. If it is not, we say so.

Sample printing

Test a sample in the agreed material before you buy a printer. A paid service, quoted per part.

Built to order

We configure the machine and develop a print profile around your approved part.

On-site onboarding and training

We commission the printer on your floor and train your operators on your part.

Lifetime support

Technical support for the life of the printer, with application advice, spare parts and upgrades available.

Step one is yours: tell us about the part.

✓Reviewed by a pellet application engineer
✓A straight answer if a MAMA is not the right tool
✓A sample print before any machine decision

Start your application assessment

Print logs

Real parts. Real numbers.

Printed from pellets on MAMA machines. Weight, hours, nozzle and layer as logged, and which MAMA each part fits. If your part is not here, that is exactly what the application assessment is for.

Tooling

Low-temperature mold, 1.4 m

Wood-filled PLA pellets. The filler makes sanding, drilling and sealing straightforward.Fits the MAMA XL-3000 in one piece. 1,400 mm long, printed lying flat along the bed.

Length: 1.4 m
Weight: 7 kg
Print time: 5 h
Nozzle: 3 mm
Layer: 2 mm
Material: Wood PLA

Composites

Carbon and glass-filled PETG

Fibers cut shrinkage and warping, and carbon sheds heat for shorter layer times.Fits the MAMA XL-3000 in one piece.

Size: 220 × 230 mm
Print time: ~1 h
Height: 50 mm
Nozzle: 3 mm
Layer: 1.5 mm

Interiors

Decorative panel

Masterbatch mixed in the feed gives color and matte effects with no painting.

Weight: 5.5 kg
Print time: 4.5 h
Nozzle: 5 mm
Layer: 3 mm

Signage

Large sign, one piece

Flame-retardant grades where public installation requires it.

Weight: 10.1 kg
Print time: 8.75 h
Nozzle: 5 mm
Material: PLA + masterbatch

Furniture

Bookshelf, 1.7 m tall

Pulled off the bed in one piece, with nothing to assemble.Fits the MAMA XL-3000 in one piece. Printed on a MAMA-1700, lying flat along the 1.7 m axis.

Height: 1.7 m
Material: PLA pellets
Parts: 1

New to pellets?

How pellet printing works.

Most MAMA customers have never printed from pellets. Here is the whole process, what changes compared with filament, and how to design for it. Onboarding covers every step on your own part.

01Feedstock

Plastic pellets, 3 to 5 mm, the same feedstock injection molding uses. Virgin, recycled or filled.

02Color

Masterbatch is mixed in by weight. About 5% white with 2 to 3% black gives a dark gray.

03Dry

PLA dries at 45 °C for 8 hours. PETG and nylon pick up moisture in minutes, so they dry every run.

04Feed

Compressed air carries pellets from the hopper to the head. A level sensor keeps it topped up.

05Melt and print

A screw with three heat zones melts the pellets, cooler at the top and hotter at the nozzle. Beads are 3 to 14 mm wide.

06Finish

Sand, drill, seal and paint. Wood-filled grades finish like pattern-shop material.

Pellets versus filament

	Pellets (MAMA)	Filament
Material cost	$2 to $8 per kg (typical, by grade and quantity)	$20 to $80 per kg
Output	Up to 3 kg/h	Up to 0.5 kg/h on the Griffin Ultra
Bead and layer	3 to 14 mm wide, layers up to 3 mm	Finer: 1.6 mm nozzle, thinner layers
Material choice	Virgin, recycled, filled, your own compounds	What is sold as 1.75 mm filament
Supports	Not practical. Orientation solves it	Possible, soluble with Dual Filament (IDEX)
Preparation	Dry the pellets, fill the hopper	Load a spool
Surface	Visible layers. Sand and paint for show parts	Smoother as printed

Designing for pellets: show the 8 rules

Overhangs under 45°, no supports

Thick pellet layers sag past 45° and pellet supports fuse to the part. Orient it, chamfer under ledges, or use Dual Filament (IDEX) for soluble supports.

Hollow first

On a large part the inside is where the hours go. Shell every solid; 10 to 25% infill gives most of the strength, above 50% is paying for nothing.

The nozzle sets the scale

1 mm: up to 2.5 mm line, 0.75 mm layer. 3 mm: 8 mm line, 2 mm layer. 5 mm: 14 mm line, 3 mm layer. Walls in whole beads.

Warp is a length problem

Round every corner (5 to 10 mm over 500 mm), break up flat floors, keep walls within a factor of 2, let the part cool on the bed.

Scale for shrinkage, then measure

Scale = 100 ÷ (100 − shrink %). A 1,000 mm part at 0.8% shrinks 8 mm. Calibrate at full size, X and Y apart from Z.

Leave stock where a tool will touch

Half a bead in XY and half a layer in Z on faces you machine, solid pads under bores, critical faces vertical.

Continuous toolpaths

Spiral (vase) mode and single walls keep extruder pressure steady and cut print time.

Estimate before you slice

Hours = part mass ÷ real throughput (1.15 to 1.4 kg/h on our logged prints), plus 10 to 30% for travel and slow layers.

The machine

Two print technologies, one platform.

Pellet for throughput, filament for detail. The MAMA XL-3000 takes either head on the same motion system, so the application decides and the decision is never permanent.

FGF pellet

Dyze Design Pulsar

Prints straight from plastic pellets, the same feedstock injection molding uses. No filament conversion, no filament markup.

500 mm³/sFlow

up to 3 kg/hThroughput

3 mm standardNozzle

FFF filament

Modix Griffin Ultra

Swaps in where the part needs finer features, tighter interfaces and a smoother surface. Same machine, same bed, same profile library.

160 mm³/sFlow

up to 0.5 kg/hThroughput

1.6 mmNozzle

Material	Grade printed on the MAMA	Nozzle °C	Drying
PLA	NatureWorks Ingeo 2003D	200	45 °C, 8 h
PLA	NatureWorks Ingeo 7003D	180 to 190	45 °C, 8 h
Wood-look PLA	Mitsubishi Light Wood	200	45 °C, 8 h
Cellulose-fiber composite	UPM Formi 3D 20/19	220	80 °C, 8 h
Recycled PETG	Mitsubishi rPETG	220	70 °C, 8 h
Recycled PETG, 15% carbon fiber	Mitsubishi rPETG CF15	220 to 240	80 °C, 4 h
PETG, 20% glass fiber	Polyram PETG GF20	220 to 240	80 °C, 4 h
PETG, glass fiber	Polyful 2506 NC901 GF	230 to 240	70 °C, 6 to 8 h

Also runsPLA, ABS, ASA, PETG, PC, TPE, TPU, PVA, HIPS, Nylon (PA), PP, carbon-fiber and glass-fiber filled composites, wood-filled blends, and recycled polymers.

Why pelletsPellets cost a fraction of equivalent filament grades (see Pellets versus filament). On a 10 kg part, that decides whether producing in-house pays.

Pellets Dryer

25 kg batch. Moisture in the feedstock is the most common cause of a failed pellet print.

Pigments Mixer

50 kg batch, 45 to 50 kg/h. Blend color and additives yourself, match a RAL or Pantone.

Air Filter

HEPA and activated carbon at 99.995%, 550 m³/hour, matched to the MAMA enclosure.

Interlocked enclosure

Door switches are part of the safety loop. Open a door in production and motion stops.

Keyswitch modes

Production: doors locked, printing allowed. Maintenance: doors open, manual moves and calibration.

E-stop on a safety relay

A hardware emergency stop loop, plus a status tower: green running, amber maintenance, red stop.

Watched while it prints

Pellet level, clog and cooling alarms pause the job and wait for the operator.

Single Pellet Head

Throughput. Large parts, low material cost, composite and recycled feedstock.

Single Filament Head

Detail. Finer features, tighter tolerances, smoother surfaces.

Dual Filament (IDEX)

Two independent Griffin Ultra heads, soluble supports, auto filament change.

MAMA XL-3000 specifications Compare all models →

Print volume3,000 × 1,000 × 1,000 mm118.1 × 39.4 × 39.4 in

Printer dimensions3,760 × 2,030 × 2,422 mmW × D × H, enclosure included

Weight~450 to 500 kgmachine only

DeliveryBuilt to order, installed on sitecommissioned and your operators trained on your part

Pellet headDyze Design Pulsar, up to 3 kg/h peaknozzles 1, 3 and 5 mm, layers 0.25 to 3 mm, up to 485 °C

Filament headModix Griffin Ultra, interchangeable1.6 mm nozzle, layers 0.1 to 1.2 mm, Dual Filament (IDEX) option

MotionStatic bed, gantry travels in X, Y and Zclosed-loop NEMA23 on X and Y

Print bedMIC6 aluminum tooling plateindependently heated zones, up to 120 °C

ElectronicsDuet 3 6HC with CAN-FD expansiontouchscreen, Ethernet, runs fully offline

SafetyInterlocked enclosure, E-stoppellet level, clog and cooling alarms pause the job

Site400 V three-phase, 32 A, compressed air480 V sites: isolation transformer, specified with you

SupportLifetime technical supportspare parts and upgrades available

FAQ

Pricing, samples and support.

Why is there no price on this page?

Because the quote follows the application. What a MAMA costs depends on the print head, the add-ons your material needs and the services in the program. We scope it after the review, so the number you get is the number for your part.

Is the sample print really paid?

Yes. It is a paid engineering service, quoted per part once we have seen the geometry and agreed the material. You are paying for engineering time and machine time on a real part.

Does the machine arrive assembled?

Yes. Built to order, tested and calibrated, with the print profile from your approved sample loaded. A Modix engineer then commissions it on site and trains your team.

Can we maintain and upgrade it ourselves?

Yes, and that is the point of a modular platform. Print heads, electronics and extrusion systems are serviceable and upgradeable by your own team, with spare-part kits available.

Pellet or filament, how do we choose?

Pellet for throughput and material cost on large parts, filament for finer features and finish. The review answers it for your part, and the machine takes either head, so the decision is not permanent.

Why an assessment and not a quick form?

Because a pellet application engineer spends real time on every MAMA request: the part, the material, the finish and your site, usually in a video call. The more you tell us up front, the more useful that time is for you, and the faster you get a real answer.

We have never printed with pellets. Is that a problem?

No. Most MAMA customers start there. Onboarding covers drying, feeding, print profiles and maintenance on your own part, and support continues for the life of the machine.

Can it run recycled material or our own compounds?

Yes. The pellet head takes virgin, recycled and filled pellets, plus masterbatch for color. The assessment and the sample print tell you whether your compound prints and how it must be dried.

What does it need on site?

Floor space, a 400 V three-phase supply on a dedicated 32 A circuit, Ethernet, and for pellet configurations a small air compressor (3.5 HP, 24 liter) sourced locally. Sites on a 480 V supply use a 30 kVA isolation transformer, which we specify with you.

What happens if the feed runs out mid-print?

Pellet level and clog detection pause the job and wait for an operator. Refill or clear it and the print continues from where it stopped.

Step one

Tell us about your application.

Five quick steps. A pellet application engineer reviews every answer, then we talk, and if the MAMA XL-3000 fits your part, we print it for you first.

Start your application assessment Or write to sales@modix3d.com