In the current automotive appearance design, the first step from drawings to solid is to use sand to make models, from a miniature model of one to ten, and then to a solid model of one to one.

It depends entirely on the sculptor to sculpt it out with one knife, because after the finished product is produced, a three-dimensional scanning system must be used to scan it into the computer, establish a data mold library, and accumulate data for the subsequent stamping machine tools.

Therefore, an ordinary sculpture work must be upgraded to industrial level accuracy, which requires very high standards for sculptors, and there must be no errors in the entire sculpture process.

Because any error of a few millimeters will cause all previous efforts to be wasted, which puts sculptors in such work under extremely tremendous psychological pressure.

Therefore, the process of this step is also very slow, and sculptors would rather do it slowly than make mistakes.

This has resulted in a long time to take shape. A skilled sculptor brings the design from the drawings to reality. With the cooperation of a team, it will take as fast as six months, and a slower one year.

This invisibly delays the entire R&D cycle of the car model for a long time, which will increase a lot of R&D expenses. This has always been the most troublesome problem for European and American automobile companies.

In fact, as far as current technology is concerned, 3D printing technology can completely replace sculptors to complete this step. It can not only save a lot of money, but also save six months to one year. It also uses machines to replace people and ensure the smallest possibility of making mistakes.

However, the 3D printing technology in this era is not yet mature. Even if the United States is at the forefront of this industry, this technology is currently mostly stuck in the laboratories of many scientific research institutions. It is waiting for the injection of funds.

With the strength of the Americans today, their 3D printers can be made bigger and full of them for use by automobile companies.

However, the companies in the United States that develop 3D printing technology currently regard these technologies as their own treasures, and no one wants to disclose them to the public. Because there are still some flaws in this technology, they all want to do the best, and then launch the market and then occupy the market with the largest share.

But to achieve this, it requires a big investment. However, since the birth of 3D printing technology, there have been constant controversy over this technology in the scientific and industrial circles.

Some people think this is a technology that is enough to subvert the current industrial processing situation and can lead the new generation of industrial revolution.

Some people also believe that this technology is just a gimmick. Because of the lack of materials science, this technology is not enough to replace the current mainstream machine tool processing technology.

As for mainstream media in society, everyone is still on the second point of view, which has led to few investors willing to invest their funds in the field of development of this new technology.

Those companies cannot get funds and are unwilling to publicly display their technology, so they are even less favored by investors, which leads to a vicious cycle.

After the financial crisis in 2008, the US side favored 3dsys to use their technology to help them make the titanium alloy skeleton of f22, which was greatly alleviated.

It was only then that people realized that this 3D printing technology was really not a brag. Although it was not mature, it could be applied in many fields.

It was at that time that Ford, which was hit hard by the economic crisis and was exploring new ways of development, took the lead in introducing 3D printing technology in the field of automotive design and processing.

Their efforts quickly achieved great success. After using 3D printing technology, their design team greatly reduced the original R&D cycle. Moreover, with the deepening of the application of this technology, they also discovered many of this technology and other aspects of the automotive manufacturing field.

For example, using this technology to print the gearbox housing and hydraulic oil valve cover, etc., while ensuring accuracy, it not only greatly reduces time, but also reduces costs.

Ford became the first person to take the lead in the automotive field, and they quickly regained their lives by applying this technology, becoming the first company among the three major American auto companies to get out of the trough.

After them, General Motors and Volkswagen, as well as a series of Japanese auto manufacturers, have begun to try to introduce 3D printing technology into their automotive design and processing fields, but that is mostly a matter of more than ten years later.

But today, Li Yifan is standing on the shoulders of future generations and is the first to introduce 3D printing technology into the field of automotive design.

Hu Bin and Yao Chongshan are already working hard in the newly established laboratory in Bincheng. The team they led is growing very fast. Although they have not achieved results yet, they have re-explored the set they have mastered in the past, making the original technology more stable, reliable, and more suitable for certain areas of use.

Li Yifan was very satisfied with their progress. This time, because this design laboratory was set up, considering that most of the people in this laboratory are rookies in automotive design, the cycle of their finished products will definitely be very long.

On the one hand, it was to shorten the R&D cycle, and on the other hand, it was also to inspect the first 3D printer created by Hu Bin, Yao Chongshan and others. So he built two 3D printers and moved them here.

The appearance of these two first-generation 3D printers has indeed brought a very strong shock to everyone present.

Everyone was stunned after watching the performances of these two machines.

At this time, everyone was gathering in front of the machine and pointed, but no one reached out to touch the two machines. Because everyone in charge of guidance, the company had always regarded these two machines as treasures, and these two machines must be treasures.

Such a expensive thing must be expensive. If anyone goes up and does it for a while, what if it breaks it?

However, everyone has taken the finished products of these two machines and is constantly observing them, especially the team's talents in sculpture.

These two toy model cars are similar in size to children's toys on the market, but the surface is very smooth and the accuracy is very high. The door and window hanging decorations that should be found are not bad, and they look very exquisite.

They are not sure what material they are using, it seems to be plastic, but it is not easy to determine in one bite. It feels light and not very strong.

But this is not the key. The key is that it seems to save materials, and what amazes them the most is the accuracy of this toy.

You should know that when making such toys, you must first open a mold. A better toy manufacturer has very high requirements for the accuracy of toy molds. Just opening a mold will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

If it is an industrial mold, such as a car stamping mold, it will cost millions of dollars at will, and the accuracy may not be guaranteed.

However, the machine in front of you does not need to open the mold at all, and can complete the model in front of you by spinning and superimposing it, which will save a lot of materials and save the cost of opening the mold.

However, compared with time, these are not the key. You must know that if you really design a car and bring the design from the drawings to reality, you will rely on them, sculptors.

Even if a few of them work together and no one completes part of it, it will probably take a month to complete a small model with such a level of accuracy.

If you complete a model that is one-to-one with a real car, it will take six months even if they have confidence.

However, the machine in front of me only took half an hour to complete the model in front of me. Although it was a little guy, even if it was a big guy, at the speed of this machine, it would probably only take a few hours.

This efficiency alone can help the entire R&D team save a lot of time, a few hours, to exchange for six months to one year!

This is amazing? Several sculptors feel something is wrong. Since you already have such a machine, why are you asking us for?

Li Yifan smiled slightly and grabbed these sculptors.

"You guys, you don't have to feel uncomfortable. This is a machine after all, and it's not a human. Sometimes machines can make mistakes, but I believe that your eye skills may depend on you sometimes if you want to achieve higher accuracy. What's more, if you use this machine in the whole process of this graph to the entity, you need to build a data model on the computer, and several may not play a role in reality, but when computers do data modeling, they cannot do without the eyes of several..."

Li Yifan's words made these sculptors feel much better. Indeed, we were still useful, but it was just a battlefield of transfer from reality to the online world.

After convinced several sculptors, Li Yifan looked in front of the machine again. Wuyun Gaowa was standing in front of the two machines obsessedly, as if he was enjoying two perfect masterpieces.

"How is it, how does it feel?"

Li Yifan came to her side. He knew that the shock the two machines brought to the beautiful person in charge was probably much more than that.

When he convinced Wuyun before, Wuyun was not particularly convinced of him, but when these two machines appeared in front of her, could she remain as calm as before?

Li Yifan doesn’t believe it! For some special people, you have to use special means, especially to scratch their itchy places, that’s enough!
Chapter completed!