A team of 3D printing specialists at Audi’s Böllinger Höfe site has teamed up with trinckle, a company based in Berlin, to develop innovative design software and expand Audi’s 3D printing capabilities.

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The objective is to enable any employee who needs a tool from the 3D printer to design it personally without needing extensive prior knowledge. The Audi e-tron GT is the first vehicle for which 3D (or additive) printing is an established part of preparations for series production, which means that all the tools for assembly and pre-assembly are in place at the start of production.

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With the newly designed software, there is no need for the time-consuming process of manually sculpting models in CAD (computer-aided design) programs, which makes workflows faster as a result. Using the new system cuts design time for tools by 80%. “Our software makes the process of creating pre-assembly fixtures almost completely automated. […]

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