Being in the forefront with innovative manufacturing projects, Sculpteo team made a first by completing a bike tour of almost 1000 km with 3D bike they developed.
Providing solutions with 3D application, design and engineering, Sculpteo showed 3D’s potential with a very assertive and fun project. Having a successful and safe trip with a 3D printed bike, the firm became the agenda of 3D world.
French 3D printing and digital manufacturing company Sculpteo introduced the bike, completed in seven weeks, at CES 2017 earlier this month. 70% of the Sculpteo Digital Bike was built with the company’s 3D metal printing platforms, and cost about $4,200 to create. Parts for the bicycle were created through CLIP technology, with Carbon‘s fast 3D printing capabilities in rigid polyurethane, flexible polyurethane, and elastomeric polyurethane, while others were created using SLS (in carbonmide, nylon, and alumide) and DMLS (titanium) 3D printing, as well as laser cutting of leather, aluminum, and stainless steel. The designers of the bike Alexandre Orsetti and Piotr Widelka left Las Vegas on January 8, and documented the full ride in real time using #SculpteoBikeProject. In the company blog, they noted that while the bike was functional, it was not yet complete, but that was the point: they wanted to put the bike, and its 3D printed parts, to the test on the open road, and planned to continue fixing and improving upon the bike while it was being used.
Sharing this journey’s details on their website, Sculpteo tea proved that 3D is not only a prototyping machine. The team said that with Sculpteo Bike Project, they are pleased to influence other firms and pushing their production capacity for continuous development. Highlighting that their aim is to solve customers’ problems with various material, software and production techniques, Sculpteo stated that this project gave them the opportunity of testing new materials and technologies.