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• Nikon SLM Solutions and Bosch 3D Print Complete V8 Engine Block as a Single Piece July 3
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Nikon SLM Solutions and Bosch Industry Consulting have produced a complete V8 engine block as a single printed part, using the NXG XII 600 laser powder bed fusion system at the Bosch Additive Solution Center in Nuremberg, Germany. The block was printed in AlSi10Mg aluminum, with no casting and no tooling required.
Conventional cylinder block production requires tooling that takes weeks or months to develop before a single production part can be made. Design changes mean tooling modifications, adding time and cost to every iteration. With the NXG XII 600, the block was produced directly from a digital file, bypassing those constraints entirely and opening up geometries, including integrated cooling channels and topology-optimized structures, that casting can’t reliably achieve.
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