Rapid Prototyping

If you are working on a new product or refining an existing one, rapid prototyping is ideal to test, iterate and adjust your concept. This is a way to speed up your designing process and bring your ideas and product to market faster.

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Rapid prototyping: A quick and efficient way to give life to your ideas

Rapid prototyping: A quick and efficient way to give life to your ideas

Rapid prototyping allows you to create a physical model of your product or design a concept quickly and efficiently. 3D printing offers a range of technologies and materials adapted to rapid prototyping. You can then test and validate your ideas before committing to full-scale production. 3D Printing is the shortest path between your ideas and a functional prototype in your hands and it can be used at each stage of your manufacturing process. More specifically, 3D printing can be a strong ally at the early stages of your product development. With 3D printing technologies, make as many iterations as needed with a great precision and speed up your prototyping process.

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3D Printing is the shortest path between your ideas and a functional prototype in your hands. 3D printing can be a strong ally at the early stages of your product development.
Prototype and iterate with Stereolithography (SLA), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), or Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technologies.

Sculpteo was the partner we needed for producing Tundra, being able to 3D print parts made it possible to create a customizable drone. Our partnership with Sculpteo was an essential part in the creation of this machine.
Alexandre Labesse
Alexandre Labesse Hexadrone CEO
3D printing gives us the ability to get our parts quickly, compared to other manufacturing techniques. We can also manufacture complex parts with a finished appearance, which could not be machined. We have been working with Sculpteo since 2014 and the quality keeps improving. Our contacts with the team are regular in order to find the best compromises regarding our needs.
Nicolas Rigaux
Nicolas RigauxMechanical engineer at Microfilms
At the small scale of the cargo projects we run, 3D printing is the only economical production method for the geometries we need. Using Sculpteo’s service allows us to produce a much more professional quality product than we could achieve in-house, at a much lower time investment.
Jürg Germann
Jürg GermannHead of Engineering at WeRobotics
We are always looking for performance for our robots, and this fundamentally involves reducing the weight of the various fittings linked to the robots such as their grippers. 3D printing is a solution for us to combine performance, rigidity and mass of these assemblies. We have been working with Sculpteo for 4 years, the quality of the prints has always been very satisfactory and the proximity of our account manager allows us to save time and improve our performance in the realization of our projects.
Anthony MOUTEAU
Anthony MOUTEAU Designer / SAS I.D.E.C
3D printing is an opportunity to easily reproduce the structure of a robot. More and more robots are being produced thanks to 3D printing. Additive manufacturing is a long-term trend for the robotic market, just as it is for aeronautic and automobile businesses
Jérôme LAPLACE
Jérôme LAPLACEDirector, Génération Robots / HumaRobotics
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Koovea: Innovation and Rapid Prototyping with 3D Printing

Koovea is a startup based in Montpellier, south of France, specializing in connected temperature monitoring for the logistics of temperature-sensitive products. Their challenges? Develop rapidly a sensor resistant to extreme temperatures and respond to their client’s needs faster by offering customized versions of their products.

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Innovation and Rapid Prototyping with 3D Printing
Customer Story: Koovea

Innovation and Rapid Prototyping with 3D Printing

Koovea is a startup based in Montpellier, south of France, specializing in connected temperature monitoring for the logistics of temperature-sensitive products. Their challenges ? Develop rapidly a sensor resistant to extreme temperatures and respond to their client’s needs faster by offering customized versions of their products.
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Innovation and Adaptability with 3D Printing
Customer Story: Hexadrone

Innovation and Adaptability with 3D Printing

Hexadrone is a french company specializing in the development of mechatronic systems for civilian and military UAVs. Hexadrone also offers more than 3000 products, OEM parts, and RTF drones via their online platform. From prototyping to on-demand manufacturing, high-quality, customizable drones, Hexadrone found its success with Sculpteo’s online 3D printing services.
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From Prototyping to Production with 3D Printing
Customer Story: UWTI

From Prototyping to Production with 3D Printing

With 10 years of experience in consulting and innovation, Arnaud Brachet and Arnaud Le Cat have focused on revolutionizing team building and training with an interactive business game, UWTI. Their mission is simple, reinvent and innovate the way of managing and working for today’s workforce. At first, 3D Printing was only to prototype their innovative boxes. After seeing the parts’ quality, they decided to produce and launch their first series on the market with Sculpteo
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Materials Adapted To Prototyping

Benefit from an extensive catalog of 3D printing technologies, from Stereolithography to Selective Laser Sintering and HP Multi Jet Fusion. Using our online 3D printing service, you will access cost-effective and accurate 3D printing materials to give life to your proofs of concept and functional prototypes. Powder-based or resin options are available for your RP process.

Reasons to use 3D printing for rapid prototyping

Rapid prototyping with 3D printing will help you bring your project to the next level in no time, bringing your ideas to reality efficiently and reliably. Benefit from the rapid prototyping tools offered by additive manufacturing:

  • Speed

It can take months to create a prototype using traditional manufacturing techniques, which is quickly becoming expensive for your business. With rapid prototyping and 3D printing, it only takes days, which is a saving you time and money in the long run.

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  • Flexibility

Since you’re not committing to a large-scale production run, you can make changes and iterations easily. Flexibility is an incredible advantage when working on complex and innovative products requiring testing.

  • Testing

Creating a physical model allows getting a better sense of your product, how it will look and how it will function. This is a way to get the feedback needed about your product. Making high-fidelity prototypes is a crucial step to making adjustments or improvements and making the perfect product meeting your needs and requirements.

  • Cost-effectiveness

By catching mistakes early, and iterating in a reactive way, you will speed up the process and save money. Rapid prototyping with additive manufacturing is a cost-effective way to prototype your ideas.

Start your rapid prototyping process today with Sculpteo

Choose a prototyping partner with short lead times and experienced advice using our innovation-oriented point of view. Sculpteo is dedicated to helping you succeed and using additive manufacturing in a way adapted to your business's needs.

With 10+ years of expertise in additive manufacturing for production and prototyping, Sculpteo also offers rigorous quality control. With our online 3D printing service and our advanced platform, you get professional 3D printing at your fingertips. Create a free account, upload your 3D files, select your material, technology, and post-processing options, and order online.

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Stop wasting time, start your rapid prototyping process now

Prototypes are an essential step in your product development. Before a more costly step of production, you need to evaluate the design and functionality of your product. An excellent rapid prototyping technique is just what you need! Rapid prototyping allows engineers and designers to manufacture and test their products faster and iterate as much as necessary. Whether to create a scale model of a physical part to validate the shape or its visual aspect, try out an assembly, or build functional features and test them, rapid prototyping will help you achieve your goals in time. Some game-changing technologies, such as additive manufacturing, allows you to create your high-fidelity prototypes,
 concept models and functional prototypes with an excellent surface finish. Additive manufacturing technology can become your true ally, for all kinds of applications with advanced technologies such as SLS, MJF, Binder Jetting, Polyjet and other technologies. Get rid of the disadvantages of manufacturing technologies such as CNC machining and benefit from the flexibility you deserve to grow your projects.

Additive manufacturing can boost your company, not only thanks to rapid prototyping. Discover how you could benefit from a more scalable, flexible, and resilient manufacturing process for prototyping and production.

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What are the advantages of rapid prototyping?

Rapid prototyping reduces design and time development, which leads to a reduction in product development costs. This is also offering more room for iteration and testing. Rapid prototyping has a beneficial impact on your overall manufacturing process. 

    Is rapid prototyping the same as 3D printing?

    Rapid prototyping is allowed by manufacturing techniques such as 3D printing. Rapid prototyping is the technique to create a prototype model from a 3D model. We can say that additive manufacturing is the process, and rapid prototyping is the end result.

    Where is rapid prototyping used?

    Rapid prototyping can be used by everyone, and by every kind of industry. Moreover, rapid prototyping can be used at any stage of the product development cycle for any product.