HP Announces New 3D Printing Materials for 4200 Jet Fusion Series

RapidMade's HP Jet Fusion in action

RapidMade is pleased to share that HP is expanding material options for its Jet Fusion 3D printer.  Recognizing that material selection, performance, quality and cost have been barriers to additive manufacturing adoption, HP has focused aggressively on product development and accessibility.

Now, in addition to its 3D High Reusability PA 12, HP plans to offer:

• 3D High Reusability PA 12 Glass Beads - designed to produce "stiff, low-cost, quality parts"
• 3D High Reusability PA 11 - formulated to create "ductile, quality parts" at an unbeatable price

A key to its speed-to-market success has been HP's decision to encourage an Open Platform where key suppliers collaborate to accelerate material innovation.

RapidMade looks forward to including these revolutionary nylon powders in its operations.

RapidMade Brings Goodnuss to Founder and Other Entrepreneurs

One of the most enjoyable aspects of working with entrepreneurs is seeing them – and their projects – come to fruition, orin Lizz Hampton’s case – to nutrition!  Lizz is one of our favorite success stories, especially given that she is among RapidMade’s first customers, dating back to its first year in business.

Lizz came to us with a product idea that would make it easier for people to make fresh nut milk at home. The product concept itself was very simple, however the design requirements were very complex.

Over the course of the past 4 years, we have worked with Lizz to simplify this revolutionary product through hundreds of prototype iterations, helping her streamline from more than 15 complex parts down to 4 simple parts and then supporting her pivot away from a device into a reusable, mess-free nut milk bag.

“I wouldn’t have been able to get this far without Micah and his team at RapidMade. Not only did they help me develop a better product, they provided essential insight into how it would need to be manufactured, important engineering considerations and top quality parts for my prototypes. Above all else, they have been there to support me on my journey and believe in the product I am creating, which is invaluable to me as a young maker/designer. ”

— Lizz Hampton, Goodnuss Founder

As of October 17th, Lizz’s reusable, mess-free nut milk bag is available for pre-order on Indiegogo. We are helping her spread the word about her launch because we believe in supporting our customers and doing our part to help them succeed.  If you are interested in supporting Lizz and helping her get her product manufactured, please click this link

You can also check out her website, which is full of funny videos.

If you are not a nut milk drinker, we’re sure you know someone who is and would love this product!  If you are not able to support her campaign financially, please share with your network so she can build her dream company.

At RapidMade, we believe in helping our customers achieve their goals, whether it’s developing or producing a product for commercial use, creating a prototype for an entrepreneurial project or making displays for retail spaces, we are dedicated to helping our customers succeed with superior products.

RapidMade Clients Named PBJ Small Business & Innovation Award Winners

Congratulations to Innovarai and Madorra Medical who are among Portland Business Journal's 2017 Small Business & Innovation awardees!  Their achievements will be recognized and their products showcased on November 1st from 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. at the Portland Hilton Hotel.

Rapid prototyping and low-volume production, made possible through 3D printing (additive manufacturing), are lowering the barriers to entry for entrepreneurs and start ups.  These advanced manufacturing technologies lower costs, reduce lead times, and optimize designs, making product launches more affordable and timely.

Patients May Get Lucky "Break" with 3D Printed Plates Thanks to FDA Approval

My standard-issue wrist plate may soon be a thing of the past...

When I shattered my wrist in 2014, the surgeon pieced together the fragments using a standard-issue, low-tech wrist plate and permanently screwed it into place.  Now, with the recent FDA approval of Additive Orthoapedics' 3D printed Locking Lattice Plating System, patients may soon have access to customized plates for "stabilization and fusion of fractures, osteotomies and arthrodesis of small bones."

“‘We are excited to be one of the first companies to leverage the geometric flexibility, clinical advantages and manufacturing cost benefits of additive manufacturing in the orthopaedic plating market.  These plates can be implanted either alone with locking or non-locking screws, or in conjunction with our 3D printed bone segments through the use of a connection screw. This allows the surgeon to mix and match any wedge and plate combination for various deformities, complex revisions, or other limb salvage procedures,’ president Greg Kowalczyk said in a press release.”

Since I have subsequently broken a foot and my other wrist, I will be sure to keep this company in mind, just in case.

When to Choose Injection Molding or 3D Printing

RapidMade Accelerates Pace and Elevates Quality of Product Launch

Injection Molding Case Study

3D Printing, or Rapid Prototyping as it is also known, is a much faster and cost effective solution for testing and perfecting digital designs. Its ability to fabricate parts overnight without any direct labor, programming or tooling means 3D printing technologies carry many advantages over traditional technologies like injection molding for short turns and small-batch production.

 Sometimes 3D printing only goes so far when developing and manufacturing products in their early stages. In those instances, Rapid Injection Molding can take products to the finish line.

An American-made LED light bulb manufacturer engineered a version that was bigger and brighter than its competition.  The company quickly learned that RapidMade's injection molding expertise could test, validate and even manufacture its light bulbs in ways that 3D Printing simply could not match.

RapidMade accelerates the typical injection molding process by providing a short cut between prototyping and production tooling. After the rapid prototyping client finalizes its product for injection molding, RapidMade creates a cheaper and better solution by making pre-final tooling out of aluminum. This option allows customers get to market sooner than other injection mold processes and helps gain customer feedback to improve products. Getting a product to market sooner generates more revenue to invest in further product development and long-term tooling. 

 Material

Since the customer didn't know what the final material of the bulb should be, cutting the mold and testing multiple materials, including different grades of ABS and Polycarbonate, helped pinpoint the final material and even helped estimate eventual mass manufacturing costs. Additionally, electronics products must go through rigorous UL testing to ensure consumer safety before the product can be sold in stores.

Color and clarity are other traits vital to the lighting industry.  Because 3D printers must run manufacturing-grade material that is unadulterated, optimizing these characteristics can be difficult. With injection molding, however, one can custom blend different clear and opaque pigments with clear plastic to prototype different levels of clarity and color. So the company could test very specific color profiles to perfect its formula in the final product.

 Finish

Finish is extremely important when working with lighting, as well as other consumer products. A matte finish diffuses light at a very different rate than a polished one. Due to the layered nature, inherent in the 3D printing process, even the highest detail machines will have some level of surface striation. Additionally, most filament or powder technologies will have a very rough finish beyond the layer lines. Achieving custom finishes requires polishing, sanding, and painting of each individual unit, making it is extremely labor intensive and expensive.

Alternatively, injection molding shoots molten plastic into a cavity which picks up the texture of that cavity. That means one only needs to finish a mold once to get repetitive shots of that finish. And molds can be polished and textured to prototype a variety of finishes before settling on the desired one.

Volume

A light bulb is a relatively low-cost consumer good. These goods are meant to be sold in large volume at low cost. Tooling to produce those volumes inexpensively enough can take months to make and require high upfront investment. Many businesses are interested in small and medium-batch options that are more cost effective and higher quality than 3D printing to excite investors, test markets and stoke demand. 

 The company secured a prototyping option with relatively little upfront investment that served as a bridge tool to get actual product out into the marketplace. Aside from the aforementioned quality concerns, this could not have been cost effectively achieved with 3D printing; one cannot sell a light bulb where the housings cost $38 to the manufacturer. Creating large volumes of parts on a 3D Printer can also take much longer than injection molding, making it harder to fill orders. Injection Molding can really provide exceptional value to early-stage manufacturers when producing runs of hundreds or thousands of parts for low cost very quickly.

Pittsburgh Bridge 3D Scanned to Produce Replicas - a Home Run in the Making

Our friends at Direct Dimensions in Owings Mills, Maryland, will be "creating a 3D CAD model" of the Roberto Clemente Bridge in our hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  The resulting files will then be used to create 3D prints of the bridge for an upcoming RAPID + TCT show being held in Pittsburgh in May.

Pittsburgh, long recognized for its sports accomplishments, is becoming well known as a Center of Excellence in Additive Manufacturing as well.

Sieving Station Promotes "Cleaner" Metal Powder for 3D Printing

SIEVGEN 400-US:  Photo Credit - Farleygreene

When I worked for Nabisco, we had large robust sieves that would prepare flour being drawn from our 7-story flour towers prior to discharging into the weigh scales and mixers - several hundred pounds each batch.  The contraptions looked like very large metal boxes that shook and rotated violently to sieve the flour.  So it makes sense to me that a similar process would be recommended to pre-treat metal powders before being sintered into a 3D print.

In fact, a couple of challenges using powders in manufacturing processes are material purity and particle size. Apparently Farleygreene has introduced its SIEVGEN 400-US specifically to address these concerns for DMLS additive manufacturing.

“According to Farleygreene, when in normal use the system provides for a completely sealed and dust tight process. The feed hopper is docked into place to feed the sieve unit with a self-sealing interface and the media is introduced through an internal metering device designed to ensure the optimum screen dwell time to recover as much useable material as possible.

Oversize powder is continuously removed and ‘good’ product falls through the ultrasonically excited mesh. The screened media is filled into a receptacle locked into place on a mobile dolly to reduce manual handling as much as possible and allow the operator to move the product to where it is required.”

When you are hitting a potentially explosive metal powder with a laser, powder consistency and purity are obviously important material attributes to control.

The Deadliest Cast - 3D Scanning, 3D Printing and Manufacturing Crabs

Click image to read case study.

One of the juicier projects we've had involved 3D scanning real 10-lb crabs to recreate life-like replicas for Bering Sea Crab Fisherman's Tour.  The captain and his crew take tourists out on the high seas in the summer to watch them work.  Unfortunately, they were losing much of their inventory recreating their catches - this was both costly and unsustainable.

Once we 3D scanned the real thing, we 3D printed a master pattern which was used to create a mold.  The mold allowed RapidMade to cast the crab look alikes in urethane rubber.  See the results here.

RapidMade Featured in U.S. News Article on 3D Printing

RapidMade's founders were recently interviewed by U.S. News and World for an article explaining how 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, has helped entrepreneurs innovate.

Here's an excerpt from the story which was published on line this week:

“Renee and Mark Eaton, with their son Micah Chaban, founded RapidMade, a 3-D printing, manufacturing and engineering company, based in Portland, Oregon, in 2011. About to graduate from the University of Oregon, Chaban told his parents he was contemplating job searching in Germany. Living in England at the time, the Eatons had read an article in “The Economist” on 3-D printing and the idea for RapidMade was born.

’We had both worked in manufacturing for years and were disheartened that so many kids were gravitating to lower-paying service jobs because high-tech manufacturing jobs either weren’t well known or readily available,’ Renee Eaton, chief executive officer of RapidMade, wrote in an email.

’During our careers, we had both been forced to close or downsize plants and relocate production, so we wanted very much to bring back manufacturing. We thought Additive Manufacturing (3D printing) was a great local and sustainable way to do that.’

She explained that entrepreneurs can develop and evaluate a design in little time with rapid prototyping and that by using 3-D printing to create tools, they can decrease lead times and cost. Most of RapidMade’s customers are new to 3-D printing, and the company’s engineers can help determine the best technology to create a product from a design, she wrote.”

3D Printing Battles Animal Extinction

Ivory-look-alike artwork (Image Credit: 3ders.org)

3D printing enthusiasts are using additive manufacturing to combat animal extinction on multiple fronts.  One Italian-based artist, Andrea Pacciani, is creating exotic ivory-alternative objects that she hopes will entice patrons toward her "sustainable, animal-friendly pieces."  Not only do the items look and feel like ivory, because they are 3D printed, Pacciani is able to create designs that cannot easily be produced with traditional carving methods.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has also adopted the technology to create a graphic reminder that we won't be able to just 3D print more animal species if they are driven to extinction.  Its ad campaign, produced by Young and Rubicam, shows partially printed, like-like reproductions of an elephant, orangutan, and whale to communicate its dire message.

Other nonprofit firms, such as Paso Pacifico have used 3D printing creatively to advance their causes.  Paso Pacifico chose

“to create 3D printed decoy sea turtle eggs to track and take down poaching rings, and scientists at the International Centre for Birds of Prey (ICBP) have 3D printed vulture eggs embedded with micro-sensors to learn vital information about vulture nesting habits.”

These initiatives show the commitment and ingenuity dedicated to saving at-risk species and the potential and versatility of 3D printing.

New Balance Enters 3D Printed Shoe Race

Photo Credit: Brittany Herbert/Mashable

New Balance joins Nike, Adidas and others in the race to gain a foothold in the 3D printed shoe market.  NB has announced a new $400 sneaker that utilizes additive manufacturing. As technology develops, shoe companies are looking for new, innovative ways to make shoes stronger, more comfortable, more versatile and adaptive. The sneaker touts a new porous insole that molds to the wearer’s foot. This is another example of how 3D printed wearables are becoming more prominent and how the expansion of 3D printing technology is spurring creativity in industry.  Time will tell if the industry has put its right foot forward.

GE Opens New Additive Manufacturing Facility in Pittsburgh

As Pittsburgh natives, we've been awaiting the Opening of GE's New Additive Manufacturing Facility there.  The Grand Opening was earlier this week.  Officially named the Center for Additive Technology Advancement (CATA), the plant is officially located southwest of the city near the airport in Findlay Township.  The move symbolizes GE's belief that improving the speed and effectiveness of additive manufacturing will give it a strategic advantage.  Just "down the road" from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh - Hail Pitt - perhaps GE will collaborate with these schools on AM research.

According to Business Wire, 

“The new facility represents a $39 million investment over three years and will result in the creation of 50 high-tech engineering jobs initially, in disciplines ranging from mechanical and electrical to systems and software engineering. This is GE’s first multi-modal site in the U.S., designed as an innovation hub offering training and development in both design and applications.”

Having lived through the repeated Pittsburgh-based plant closings of the 80s and 90s, personally we're hoping this is just the beginning of a bright, high-tech renaissance for SW Pennsylvania.  

3D Printing Makes Custom Solder-Free Circuit Boards Cleaner and Easier

It is now easy to make your own custom solder-free circuit boards through 3D printing. An independent creator on DIY website Instructables has 3D printed its own personally designed circuit board. The circuit board was created in CAD, printed, and its trace channels lined with conductive material. Once built, this circuit board does not require solder to establish working electrical connections, an easier and cleaner way of building your own circuit boards. This is perfect for hobbyists but also indicative of the many custom applications 3D printing can have in technology development. Read the article for more details on how to build your own custom circuit board.

RapidMade Expands Services Offered

3D Printing, Manufacturing and Engineering

RapidMade's services now include:

Product Design and Engineering

• Simple static part design to fully automated mechanical and electrical equipment
• Design for prototyping and manufacture
• In-house prototyping capabilities for faster iterations and overnight customer feedback
• 2D and 3D drawings, tolerance and other manufacturing specifications, technology transfer and patent application documentation, equipment manuals, FDA and other compliance as well as other specialized engineering work

Rapid Prototyping

• 3D printing, quick-turn machining, traditional metal and plastic forming, short-run castings
• Thermoset and thermoplastic manufacturing, hard and soft metals, composites available
• Full-color concept models, functional prototypes, assembly and embedded electronics
• Quotes generally in under 24 hours, parts in days

Contract Manufacturing

• Production quantities ranging from one to tens of thousands
• A multitude of available manufacturing processes 
• Expertise in selecting the right manufacturing process for you
• Personalized attention to detail and top quality customer service
• Tooling and part library for easy re-orders

3D Scanning and Reverse Engineering

• Extremely high accuracy 3D digitization of parts as a reproducible STL file
• Available reverse engineering to create fully defined parametric files and 2D dimensioned drawings
• Inspection of manufactured goods to identify deviation from the original design
• Full-color scans also available

Industrial Pattern and Toolmaking

• Highly accurate tools in days, not months - at a lower cost
• Patterns and tools available for all standard manufacturing processes: Injection molding, urethane casting, sand and investment casting, sheet metal stamping, plastic forming and much more
• Additional finishing capabilities available

Displays, Exhibits and Promotions

• Full color 3D printing can be done as quickly as under 24 hours
• Print directly from renderings in CAD or BIM modeling software
• Great for architecture, store display and marketing customers
• Very fine feature detail and beautiful aesthetic quality

Finishing and Coating

• A wide range of finish options including paint, powder coat, plating, media blast, tumbling and much more
• Clear coat and dyed plastic available for cost effective finishing of prototypes and manufactured goods

Use RapidMade to Rapidly Make Industrial Patterns and Tools

Epoxy and Silicone Molds are popular

RapidMade Advantages:

• Reduce Cost
• Decrease Lead Times
• Keep Intellectual Property in the US
• One Stop Shop for Design, Tooling and MFG
• Unprecedented Ease and Design Freedom

Types of Available Tooling and Parts:

Epoxy and Silicone Molds

• Tooling in days, not months
• Reduces investment costs for short run production
• Lower material costs than 3D Printing
• Reusable tooling allows for many castings
• Many available casting materials, including but not limited to:  Urethane, epoxy, polyester, medical and food grade resins, plaster, and many other resins and composite materials

Injection Molds and Inserts

• Injection mold tooling in days to weeks, not months
• Very inexpensive part cost
• Tool life from 10k+ unit from prototype tooling to hundreds of thousands of units from production tooling
• Top quality aesthetic finish and mechanical properties compared to other Rapid Prototype technologies

Sand Casting Patterns

• Least expensive way to fabricate quantities of small to large metal parts
• Typical materials are aluminum, bronze, zinc and steel
• Tooling can be produced in less than 1 - 2 weeks and cost a fraction of traditional methods
• Capable suppliers of core boxes, follow boards, gates and risers and other necessary sand cast tooling
• Unit production in days, not weeks

Investment Cast Patterns, Molds and Waxes

• Highest quality of finish of all casting methods
• Typical materials include aluminum, bronze and steel
• Available tooling includes: master patterns, silicone rubber molds, and wax burnout patterns
• Can direct print one-off or small batches of direct burnout patterns without investing wax tooling

Vacuum and Thermoform Tooling

• Heavy gauge production plastics available like ABS, Polyethylene, Polystyrene and Polycarbonate
• Light gauge packaging plastics available like PET and Polystyrene
• Can form parts up to 12 feet long
• Prototype tooling available in as little as a couple of days
• Production tooling is good for over 100,000 forms and is porous for highest part quality

Carbon Fiber, Fiberglass and Other Composite Tools

• Decrease tooling and mold lead time compared to traditional methods
• Increase complexity of design without increasing cost
• Soluble cores available for hollow parts
• Waxed finishes available for easy de-molding
• Save money on prototype and production tools

Sheet Metal Stamping and Forming Tools

• Very low cost tooling for small batches of sheet metal parts
• Male and female tooling available for traditional two die stamping as well as single die hydro-forming
• Tools delivered in a fraction of the time compared to traditional methods
• Inexpensive and durable composite tooling available as castings from pattern

Robotic Arm End Effectors

• Custom tooling that fits any part with complex internal geometries like vacuum channels
• Reduce weight, inertia and material waste during fabrication
• Simplified designs are easier to engineer, manufacture and assemble - cutting down on cost and time for tooling fabrication
• Improve tool life by cutting down on breakable components

Molded Paper Pulp Packaging Tools

• Get high accuracy tooling for a fraction of the cost of machined tools
• Prototype tooling can also be used as permanent tooling good for thousands or even tens of thousands of molds
• Tools can be turned around in days instead of weeks
• Tools can be used as patterns to make tooling for multiple lines or facillities

Custom Jigs, Clamps, Fixtures and Other Tooling

• Most miscellaneous tooling can be fabricated rapidly and for less cost using additive manufacturing
• Use existing CAD data for the part to design mating tooling
• Quickly test for geometric conformity or hold parts for post operations or inspection

Get a Quick Quote today.

Cut Lead Times & Production Costs with Rapid Vacuum & Thermoforming Tooling

Based on your lead time and production quantity, three tooling options are available:

1. Prototype 3D Printed Tooling:
   1. 24-hour turnaround possible
   2. 30-100 forms
   3. Variety of material and finish options
   4. Reduced cost and lead time compared to traditional tooling
2. Prototype CNC Foam Tooling:
   1. 1-2 week turnaround
   2. 30-100 forms
   3. Suited to larger parts
   4. Extremely accurate
   5. Significant cost and lead time savings over permanent tooling
3. Production CNA Aluma-Tek Composite Tooling:
   1. 2-4 week turnaround
   2. 100,000 forms
   3. Very steep angle undercuts
   4. Range of sizes - up to 6+ feet
   5. Extremely accurate
   6. Faster and more economical than machined aluminum

Contact RapidMade to learn more.

RapidMade Selected One of Oregon's Top Manufacturers by Portland Business Journal

Come join us this Thursday to celebrate (details below)!

When: Thursday, October 29th | 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Where: Sentinel Hotel | 614 SW 11th Ave. | Grand Ballroom

#PBJManufacturing

The Oregon Manufacturing Awards are intended to recognize Oregon Manufacturers. This is one of the few public awards programs for manufacturers in the United States.  We're honoring manufacturing firms from all over our region for outstanding operations, products, facilities, and most importantly, the best manufacturing workforces in the world.

As part of the awards program, Tim Boyle, CEO of Columbia Sportswear will be joining us for a live Q&A with Publisher Craig Wessel. Tim is at the helm of the 70 year old sportswear apparel giant which his grandparents began in 1938. Although it is a public company today, Columbia remains a family affair. Boyle's 91-year-old mother Gertrude, aka "one tough mother" is chairman of the board, and both his son Joe and sister Sarah Bany are on the board. Tim started working at the company after his father passed away, helping his mother Gert run the fledgling retailer while he was finishing college. He took over as CEO in 1989.

Don't miss this conversation with this fascinating Oregon company, and discussion on where Columbia is headed in the future! 

Companies being recognized this year are:

• Beaverton Foods
• D.R. Johnson Lumber
• Energy Storage Systems
• Evo, Inc.
• FEI
• Indow
• Microchip Technology Inc.
• Pratt & Larson Ceramics
• Premier Press
• RapidMade
• Shwood
• Townshend's Tea Co.
• Valliscor

Stop Waiting and Paying for Expensive Tooling to Test Your Rubber Products.

Decrease R&D cycles and save money by direct 3D printing with RapidMade.

How do you prototype or fabricate small batches of rubber, urethane or other elastomers products when?

Soft elastomers won't machine.

Fabrication by sheet lamination and gluing is inaccurate, weak and ugly.

Injection molding and other casting methods can take weeks to months and require expensive tooling.

Instead, 3D print your next rubber product design. RapidMade has successfully manufactured hundreds of gaskets, connectors, covers, plugs and other rubber products for a myriad of industries.

Advantages of using RapidMade for prototype and small-batch rubber product fabrication includes:

Fast turn around - Printed rubber products delivered in as little as 2 - 3 days.

Inexpensive low volume production - 3D printing has no tooling. Order as few as one part on short notice.

Multiple material options - Our 3D printed Thermoplastic Urethane rubber comes in shore 40 and 70 A durometers and a wide range of colors. Find our more about our SLS TPE material.

Multi-material prints - Using our polyjet technology, embed gaskets and other rubber materials directly inside of a rigid plastic assembly. Mix plastics to get over 100 digital materials ranging from shore 20A to 85D hardness.

During and After Prototyping - RapidMade offers expert engineering and design services as well as competitively priced urethane casting and injection molding options for larger volume production.

Fill out our Quick Quote form to get your inquiry started today!

 

Rapid Extrusion Prototyping - Fast, Easy, Inexpensive Alternative to Traditional Manufacturing

Prototyping extrusions can be difficult and costly for a lot of reasons. Many engineers have traditionally approached the prototyping of these two products through two means: machining billet into a close net shape or producing tooling and extruding the prototypes. These processes have large drawbacks:

Extrusion Machining Issues : 

Wastes a lot material and machining/programming time making them very costly in low volumes.

Struggles to mill certain features common to extrusions like thin walls, deep draws without draft and sharp angles.

Is very time consuming. Getting iterations of machined parts will generally either take 3 to 6 weeks or rack up heavy expedite fees.

Extrusion Tooling Issues:

Requires long lead times.  Creating tooling for exact extrusions generally takes up to 12 weeks to produce a run of prototypes.

Is extremely expensive for low-volume prototype runs, costing from thousands to tens of thousands of dollars for a tool that may only be used once.

The Solution: Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing

Prototyping your extrusions with additive manufacturing alleviates all of the issues presented by traditional processes.

3D Printed Extrusion Solutions:

3D printed parts require no tooling at all. Only pay per part that you make.

Lead times can be as little as a business day for plastic and a week for metal extrusion prototypes.

3D printed prototypes can do all the features with which machining struggles, walls as thin as 0.020", zero draft draws as deep as 12 - 14" (or longer), and sharp angles with no radii. 

RapidMade offers a wide range of material options from extremely fast, affordable and recyclable ABS plastic to metals like aluminum, stainless steel and titanium.  Interested?Get a quick quote

Now You Can Make Large Custom Parts Over a Meter Long

Large Format Features include:

• A max build volume of 1000 mm x 600 mm x 500 mm
• Part resolution of 600 dots per inch.
• Standard Layer Thickness: 120 microns
• 0.3% Part Accuracy (min. +/- 100 µm) 
• Much faster lead time than CNC machining of complex patterns
• Saves on material by reusing powder 
• Sand casting mold print material available for large patterns that would require complex or impossible cores and undercuts
• Low Ash investment casting resin available with hollow insides for direct printed "wax" patterns with high quality burnout.
• Acrylic epoxy composite material available for high quality plastic parts and models.
• Avoid expensive waste and time consuming assembly associated with CNC machining of large objects.

Fill out our Quick Quote form to start your order today!