Shapeways continues to roll out thrilling updates on our stock of 90+ supplies and finishes already out there, however with particular consideration to considered one of our most versatile 3D printing merchandise: Effective Element Plastic. This versatile acrylate is extremely common for purchases at Shapeways, together with all the pieces from miniatures to 3D printed plastic grasp molds.
New choices like Effective Element Plastic in Clear Extremely and Grey function wonderful decisions whether or not you’re designing for the Shapeways Market, procuring the 1000’s of merchandise out there there, or importing a personalised design for us to 3D print.
3D Printing with Clear Extremely Effective Element Plastic
Clear Extremely Effective Element Plastic is a good resolution in the event you want a fabric much less susceptible to yellowing over time, in addition to one providing extra flexibility to assist stop breakage in additional fragile 3D printing tasks like jewellery or ornamental items. This materials can be really helpful for purposes requiring thinner constructions with flexibility, in addition to thicker components the place inflexible performance is important.
Different purposes embrace:
- Translucent prototypes for plastic injection molding
- Useful snap-fit assemblies requiring drilling, tapping, and machining
- Injection molding plastic screw bosses and threads
- Translucent circulate visualization and dye-tinted purposes
- Optically clear sight home windows for digital fixtures
- Microfluidics, capillary fluidics, and lab-on-a-chip merchandise
Effective Element Plastic components may also be painted simply as a result of exceptionally easy, constant surfaces–good for smaller 3D printed merchandise requiring excessive accuracy, tremendous options, and sharp edges.
3D Printing with Grey Effective Element Plastic
Providing comparable materials properties to Clear Extremely Effective Element Plastic, this opaque Grey serves as the right base for portray and enhancing intricate 3D mannequin particulars.
The robust visible distinction of Grey Effective Element Plastic additionally makes it best for useful purposes with excessive element, in addition to components that require drilling, tapping, and machining. Whereas this inflexible materials serves the identical purposes as its Clear counterpart, we additionally suggest Grey Effective Element Plastic for the next:
- Components with floor particulars requiring distinction for straightforward visualization of floor element
- Opaque prototypes and a few end-use parts
- Painted enterprise and advertising and marketing collateral, fashions, and mockups
Finishes
New finishes for Effective Element Plastic supplies embrace:
- Grey Effective Element Plastic: 3D Methods Visijet M2R-GRY materials at HD decision settings (800 x 900 DPI) to supply tremendous particulars at 32 micron layer peak.
- Clear Extremely Effective Element Plastic: 3D Methods Visijet M2R-CL materials at UHD decision settings (1600 x 900 DPI) to supply best particulars at 32 micron layer peak.
Know-how
We 3D print all Effective Element Plastic supplies with Materials Jetting (MJ), considered one of our quickest 3D printing applied sciences, offering excessive element and dimensional accuracy, wonderful floor finishes, and aesthetics. MF know-how depends on a number of nozzles to deposit materials droplets onto the print mattress. Every layer is cured by UV warmth till the half is full, with helps eliminated in post-processing.
As a result of element tends to be a excessive precedence with Effective Element Plastic merchandise, we suggest that you become familiar with the design tips right here.
