3D Printing For Aerospace

Facing long lead times, costly tooling, and design limitations?

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A route to smarter path such as weight reduction, simplify production, and meet aerospace compliance with greater agility.

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Overview Of Aerospace Industry

Industry Challenges

Traditional aerospace manufacturing is restricted by costly tooling, long lead times, and supply chain delays. Producing low-volume, custom or replacement parts often requires complex machining and assembly steps, which limit flexibility and speed.

Innovation Opportunities

Adoption of additive manufacturing in aerospace is driven by the need to simplify assemblies, consolidate part counts, reduce aircraft weight, and accelerate development cycles. Key innovation goals include improving part performance, enabling design freedom, predictive maintenance, and enhanced operational efficiency.

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The Role of 3D Printing

Proven applications span form-fit-function prototypes, flight-certified interior components, engine and airframe tooling, and functional spare parts. The use of high-performance and composite materials ensures reliability and compliance with aerospace standards, while reducing cost and time-to-market.

Popular Applications

Toolings

Create composite tooling molds, lay-up tools, metal processing tooling, trimming fixtures, and production tooling with reduced cost and time.

Rapid Prototyping

Accelerate your design cycle with rapid 3D prototyping. Turning concept into physical models for design validation, product iteration, and accelerated innovation cycles. Let your design ideas take flight.

Jigs & Fixtures

Offer an efficient solution to your team to create jigs and fixtures, assembly and inspection aids, end-of-arm tooling, soft jaws, and forming dies with speed, precision and design flexibility.

Manufacturing Support

Keep your factory floor agile with on-demand 3D-printed solutions that boost efficiency, cut downtime, and ensure accuracy where it matters most.

Materials for Aerospace Innovation

Aerospace requires lightweight, high-strength, and heat-resistant materials that meet strict compliance standards. From advanced polymers like ULTEM™ and Antero™ to technical ceramics such as Alumina and Zirconia, 3D printing enables durable, flight-ready parts and tooling with greater efficiency.

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Moog Aircraft Group Cuts Fixture Costs and Lead Times with FDM 3D Printing

Moog Aircraft Group is experiencing impressive efficiency in designing for a modern world with Stratasys FDM 3D printing and Fortus 380mc.

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