Composites

Printed tooling for the composites shop

Layup molds, plugs, mandrels and sacrificial cores.

High-school engineers beat universities on printed carbon molds
High-school engineers beat universities on printed carbon molds
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Solutions for composites

Four composites solutions, on video

01

Lost-core hollow parts

Print a dissolvable core, wrap it in carbon, cure it and wash the core out. Seamless hollow parts that no split mold can make.

1 printthe whole intake core, in under four days
Lost-core composites · Modix BIG-120X
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02

Layup molds and tooling

Print the mold, finish the surface and lay carbon on it. Molds for a race car or an aircraft part, made in-house.

1stin division, Shell Eco-marathon
St. Thomas Academy · Modix BIG-Meter
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03

Masters for fiberglass production

Print the part, perfect the fit on the real car, then use the print as the master for a fiberglass mold.

5printed sections, bonded into one master
Illumaesthetic · Modix BIG-180X
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04

Carbon fiber structures, printed directly

Print the structure itself in carbon fiber filament. No mold, no tooling, and the design can change with every build.

$30K to $350Ksales, 2022 to 2024
Forte3D · Modix BIG-120X
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