Honeycomb Roll

This honeycomb roll was developed and produced as part of a student project; the model is used in the production of honeycomb plates.

Fun fact: the honeycomb’s shape and orientation determine whether a worker or a queen bee will grow from it.

Characteristics

Printing technique: LPBF
Material: Stainless steel 316L (1.4404)
Size: ± 180 x 180 x 400mm
Post-processing: Shine

The reasons to switch to 3D metal printing:

High investment costs in tools

Long lead time

Long production time

Poor performance

Advantages of 3D metal printing:

-80% number of parts
+50% stronger

In practice: