Applications
Proof of Concept
Whether you’re a product designer, innovator, design engineer architect, model maker or in education the HP Designjet series transforms your 3D CAD designs from virtual designs into robust plastic models. Get valuable feedback on your design, evaluate form, fit and function all without leaving your office!
Functional prototyping
Does it work ? Does it fit? Does it feel right? HP 3D printers let you take your designs to the next stage providing valuable feedback in your design process. Explore how parts move relative to each other, feel whether the design will fit into your hand comfortably and understand how much space the design really provides to service or assemble internal components.
Design Reviews
The HP Designjet 3D printer series produces quality, detailed plastic parts that are ideal for design review meetings. Clearly communicate your design features to your colleagues with a 3D printed part rather than traditional drawings and sketches which can be both ambiguous and open to interpretation.
Sales samples
When discussing your products with prospective clients why not use 3D printed models to demonstrate their appearance and function? 3D models can be created quickly in-house so that standard and custom products can feature in sales presentations and even iterated based on customer feedback to provide a truly customer focussed solution.
Product samples
Rather than leave your customers and prospects with a brochure, why not leave them with a plastic model of your product. HP 3D printing creates bespoke product samples specific to your company and your customer, they’re affordable to produce and leave the customer with a clear understanding of your product offering
Marketing concepts
HP 3D printing is an extremely powerful tool for communicating designs to all parties in the design process. To view and touch a 3D printed model provides instant information about the design and is a great way to demonstrate the differences between a number of design concepts or variations. The HP 3D printers provide a powerful method for quickly and effectively communicating both concept and detailed designs where technical drawings and renderings only tell part of the story
Architecture
HP 3D printing is ideally suited to producing architectural presentation models from individual floor plans to whole buildings to entire plan layouts. The plastic models created by the HP 3D printing series are robust and detailed and typically require much less labour and far greater accuracy compared with traditional card model building techniques.
Education
How to capture the minds of the designers of the future and inspire young innovators? By turning their 3D CAD designs into real plastic models in front of their eyes! HP 3D printing is an extremely valuable tool in education and at a price that’s affordable to high schools, colleges and Universities. HP 3D printing is a very simple process and ideally suited to teaching environments.
Model making
Model makers, complement your manual model making techniques with a 3D printer from HP. Create detailed models in ABS plastic from you CAD designs. Use the models as the finished item or as a small part of a larger project. ABS is a very workable material and lends itself well to painting, fastening and metal plating.
