Drill templates are a common tool used across many industries in manufacturing and are heavily relied on in aerospace tooling. When a drilling operation has to be performed by hand, custom tooling needs to be developed to simplify the process and make it repeatable. A drill template tool makes a cumbersome drilling operation as simple as locating the tool and then drill the hole.

See how 3D printing can be used as a method to fabricate durable aerospace tooling, and when applied to applications such as drill templates can lead to significant cost and time savings. This video provides an overview of the drill template tooling category and then dives into a hands-on example demonstrating design to fabrication to implementation. Throughout the process, the Markforged metal and composite 3D printers are utilized end-to-end to rapidly deploy tooling built to withstand rugged operator use on the shop floor.

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