Nowadays, along with the 4 wave of incoming industry, 3D printing technology again pushed in the teeth of the storm. For the automotive industry, 3D printing technology is the biggest contribution to the development of the mold to promote the development stage.

当前，日趋激烈的汽车市场环境中，成本控制无疑成为汽车整车厂与零部件企业都面临的重要课题。在传统汽车制造领域，汽车模具零部件的开发不仅需要长时间的研发与测试，在制造零件模具环节同样也需要一个漫长的周期。而从新技术与新车型的研发角度来说，研发速度与成本可谓是紧密相关。

At present, in the increasingly fierce market environment, cost control has become an important issue for the automobile manufacturers and parts enterprises. In the field of traditional automobile manufacturing, the development of automobile parts and components is not only need a long time of research and development and testing, but also need a long period of time in the manufacture of parts and components. And from the new technology and new models of R & D, R & D speed and cost can be described as closely related.

在如此背景下，3D打印技术便可“一展身手”。据国际模协秘书长罗百辉评价说，3D打印技术能够快速加工复杂结构零件，并且其生产周期短、成本低。凭借这一优势，3D打印技术往往被广泛应用于模具生产环节。

In this context, 3D printing technology can have a go". According to the international model association secretary general Luo Baihui evaluation said, 3D printing technology can quickly process complex structural parts, and its production cycle is short, low cost. With this advantage, 3D printing technology has been widely used in die manufacturing process.

这样一来，3D打印技术无需机械加工或任何模具，就能直接从计算机图形数据中生成任何形状的产品，从而极大地缩短汽车模具的研制和生产周期，提高生产率，实现低生产成本。可以说，3D打印技术或将改变汽车模具的未来。

In this way, the 3D printing technology without need of any machining or mold, will be able to directly from the computer graphics data generation products of any shape, which can greatly reduce the car mold development and production cycle, improve productivity, low production cost. It can be said, 3D printing technology or will change the future of automotive tooling.

应该说，3D打印能发挥的效用正在于此。加之3D打印能快速成型的特点，汽车厂商纷纷将这一技术应用于汽车外形设计的研发中，从一定程度上来说，这极大缩短了汽车研发设计时间和模型生产时间。

It should be said, 3D printing can play the effectiveness of this is. Combined with 3D printing to the characteristics of rapid prototyping, automobile manufacturers will have this technology has been applied in the research and development of vehicle exterior design, from a certain extent, which greatly shortens the automotive R & D design time and model of production time.

不过，站在客观的角度，值得强调的是3D打印在汽车行业的应用尚处探索阶段，故此，并不是鼓励大家应用3D技术去打印所需要的产品，以我国现阶段的技术积累来讲，并不适合批量生产。

However, standing in the point of view of the objective, it is worth emphasizing is 3D printing in the application of the automotive industry is still in the stage of exploration, therefore, does not encourage everyone to use 3D technology to print the required products, to the present stage of our country technology in terms of the accumulation, is not suitable for mass production.

目前，中国市场的技术水平所达到的层面，跟美国、日本还有欧洲确有一定差距，与这些较为成熟的市场相比，不得不说中国市场还刚起步。但是，从中国政府的支持力度与中国制造2025的未来潜力来看，未来局势将会发生极大改变。未来3-5年内，中国的机器OEM厂商或会有更多机会向海外出口本土机器。

At present, the level of technical level of the Chinese market, with the United States, Japan and Europe there is a certain gap, and these are more mature market, had to say that the Chinese market has just started. However, from the support of the Chinese government and the future potential of China's manufacturing 2025, the situation in the future will be greatly changed. In the next 3-5 years, China's machine OEM manufacturers or will have more opportunities to export to overseas local machine.

总之，有关3D打印与汽车模具的行业动态，汽车模具零部件亦将持续关注。

In short, the 3D printing and automotive tooling industry trends, automotive mold parts will continue to pay attention to.