In high-performance automotive engineering, speed and precision are everything. Whether you are dialing in a race car’s aerodynamics for the weekend, fabricating a custom titanium exhaust for a 1,000-horsepower supercar, or building heavy-duty off-road armor, your turnaround time determines your competitive edge. Historically, however, every new component presented a frustrating bottleneck: the fixture. Before a shop can weld, inspect, or assemble a complex part, technicians need custom workholding—jigs, alignment tools, and welding fixtures. Traditionally, shops faced a painful choice: spend 20 to 40 hours hand-building jigs out of steel plates, or send designs out to a machine shop and wait two to three weeks for a CNC-milled aluminum fixture.
Today, leading high-performance shops are abandoning that workflow altogether. By leveraging Markforged continuous fiber and metal 3D printing technology, fabricators and race teams are bypassing the machine shop—moving from CAD design to a shop-floor-ready fixture in under 24 hours.
Here is how top automotive innovators are transforming their workflows.
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