Detailed Look at 3D Printing for Engine Component Prototyping

have about four or five of design engineers and then there's a group of manufacturing engineers too there's about four or five of them as well so i think you don't do much talking to a camera not too much nope not much specialty in engineering we use a software called solidworks i don't know if you've ever seen that before yeah it's like a 3d modeling software so we'll come up with a part we want to make and we'll sit down at the computer and we'll start drawing this part up so we'll already have our block made and our heads so like if we want to design a valve cover we'll actually sit down and model do a 3d model with valve cover and then once we get it all working in solidworks the way we want it to we'll take this and we'll send it over to our 3d printer and we'll print it off and then we can take this and actually try it on a real engine so obviously you can't run it on the engine but you can you can check fit and function and make sure it does what it's supposed to so this is the prototype and finished products yep exactly exactly yeah there's some cylinder heads we've done not everybody gets to see a cylinder head on the inside it's a really high quality printer yeah i think i think it goes down to ten thousands flares there's some better ones out there now but it still does pretty good job sometimes we'll do things that are