Applications

Successfully prints low-angle airfoils, thin walls, and maintains consistent hole diameters, overcoming the limitations faced with alternative AM solutions.

Significantly shortens production timelines by eliminating the need for multiple suppliers and international logistics.

Our technology succeeds in areas where other AM solutions have failed, demonstrating its effectiveness in producing complex microturbines.

Streamlines the fabrication of complex fins, significantly cutting lead times for small-scale orders.

Ensures high precision in manufacturing intricate internal cooling channels, overcoming traditional challenges.

Offers a nimble solution to intricate fin production, ensuring timely delivery without compromising on detail or quality.

Prints thin aluminum walls with excellent surface finishes, improving backpressure and overall performance.

Efficiently produces complex external casings with intricate flow channels, enhancing the functionality of internal components without the typical design constraints.

Offers greater design freedom beyond standard diamond channels and 45-degree angles, facilitating optimized small batch production in aluminum.

Velo3D’s Sapphire printers allow Hermeus to quickly produce complex parts with greater design freedom.

Boost manufacturing efficiency with the Sapphire XC, featuring a large build volume and 8-laser throughput.

Velo3D helps Hermeus overcome supply chain constraints by enabling in-house production of parts typically made through traditional methods.

Velo3D's technology consolidates multiple components into a single piece, reducing manufacturing time and cost significantly. The ramjet engine, featuring an inlet spike, heat exchanger, flame holder, struts, and fuel injectors, was printed in just eight days without supports.

The use of a perforated boundary layer bleed system and advanced flow channels enhances engine efficiency by minimizing thermoacoustic instabilities and allowing efficient airflow and heat dissipation. The non-contact recoater technology further improves print reliability and design flexibility.

Velo3D’s non-contact recoater enables the creation of complex geometries and high aspect ratio features with enhanced stability. This technology expands processing capabilities, ensuring consistent quality and adherence to specifications.

Streamlines production by enabling the consolidation of parts, reducing assembly complexity, and enhancing overall turbine efficiency.

Offers specialized capabilities for printing low-angle blades and other challenging geometries, maintaining high quality in every detail.

Achieves exceptional precision in manufacturing thin walls and lattice structures, crucial for the high-performance demands of microturbines.

Our advanced technology efficiently handles intricate fin designs, dramatically shortening lead times even for low-volume orders.

Ensures high precision in crafting complex internal cooling channels, optimizing the manufacturing process without sacrificing detail or quality.

Specifically designed to address the challenges of small-scale production, providing a seamless, efficient pathway from design to finished product.

Dramatically reduces the number of parts required, merging over 60 components into fewer, more integrated designs.

Significantly shortens production timelines by eliminating the need for multiple suppliers and international logistics.

Sierra Turbines leveraged the power of AM to integrate features such as an efficiency boosting recuperator, printed-in sensors, and more novel insulating and cooling geometries.

The Velo3D Sapphire XC efficiently produces large, dimensionally accurate impellers, even with challenging low angles, expanding the possibilities of AM in MRO applications.

Total manufacturing time, including printing and all post-processing and machining operations, took less than half the time needed for the same impeller through conventional methods.

By utilizing Inconel^® 718, Velo3D not only enhances the mechanical properties of impellers but also ensures their longevity and performance under demanding conditions.

Specializes in utilizing innovative superalloys like Inconel^® 718, overcoming the typical casting difficulties, high costs, and prohibitive lead times associated with traditional methods.

Delivers low-angle channels with exceptional surface finishes, ensuring the performance and longevity of parts in high-stress conditions.

Velo3D dramatically accelerates manufacturing, slashing production times from months to weeks for low-volume, high-quality designs, resulting in significant time savings for projects.

Facilitates a seamless distributed manufacturing model, enabling the production of parts at multiple locations with consistent quality, enhancing flexibility and responsiveness.

Supports the concept of digital inventory, allowing for the efficient, on-demand production of parts. This approach significantly reduces the need for physical inventory, lowering warehousing costs and minimizing capital investment while ensuring scalability.

Prints thin aluminum walls with excellent surface finishes, improving back pressure and overall performance.

Efficiently produces complex external casings with intricate flow channels, enhancing the functionality of internal components without the typical design constraints.

Offers greater design freedom beyond standard diamond channels and 45-degree angles, facilitating optimized small batch production in aluminum.

Print thin aluminum walls with excellent surface finishes, improving back pressure and overall performance.

Efficiently produce complex external casings with intricate flow channels, enhancing the functionality of internal components without the typical design constraints.

Leverage greater design freedom beyond standard diamond channels and 45-degree angles, facilitating optimized small batch production in aluminum.