The printed plastic parts also perform better technically, weight less, and are well suited for the production of complex bodies that, when using conventional metal-cutting processes, would be very difficult and costly to produce. In some cases using CAD models alone is not as effective at finding design problems as a 3D printed physical part – you can easily identify a component issue that may have been missed in the initial design stage. In addition to all these, to quote a recent example, Honda released a new version of the Micro-Commuter in October 2016 in Japan. A single-seater with about a 50-mile driving range, the body and majority of the panels on the Micro-Commuter are 3D printed.
