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A camper van interior built almost entirely by large-format 3D printing has come in roughly 1,500 pounds (680 kg) lighter than the plywood-and-aluminum fit-out it replaces. Buckley Conversions built the prototype on a 144-inch-wheelbase Mercedes-Benz eSprinter, with founder Brandon Buckley calling it “the world’s first ever 3D printed luxury van.”
The saving comes from moving additive manufacturing off accessories and onto the primary interior structure, the load-bearing furniture and panels that conversion shops have cut from sheet goods for decades. Wood survives in only two places, and Buckley says the next van will remove it altogether.
3D printed luxury van. Photo via Buckley Conversions .
Scanning first, printing second
The team began by capturing the van’s interior in three dime