Materials

There are a multitude of materials with advanced properties, perfect for applications in sectors such as engineering. RGNT-Motorcycles has chosen Adura X filament for the manufacture of its motorbike parts, here's why.

Polypropylene (PP) is one of today's most valued plastic materials, but offers certain difficulties when it comes to 3D printing. PPprint offers a range of products to optimise the process of 3D printing parts from this material.

Z-ULTRAT is one of the innovative materials developed by Zortrax. This blend of ABS and PC has a lot to offer both in the manufacture of functional prototypes and in the production of final parts.

Compilation of the 5 most innovative and original materials for FDM 3D printing today, either for specific properties or for offering a differentiated finish.

Nowadays it is possible to find a multitude of soluble filaments for support, however it can often be difficult to choose the most suitable one. In this post we explain the different alternatives available and how to select the most suitable one.

Tomas Feřtek, a research engineer at the Institute of Geology, has used 3D printing to produce mechanical sensor mounts, sensor bodies, and motors for high-pressure chambers; using Fillamentum Nylon AF80 filament.

With the Filamet metal filaments of The Virtual Foundry, consisting of a base metal and a biodegradable and ecological polymer (PLA), and an oven sintering process, it is now possible to obtain all-metal parts using 3D FDM printing.

PETG and ABS belong to the group of the most consumed materials in the field of 3D printing FDM / FFF, the first for its balance between strength and ease of printing and the second for its great use in the world of the industry since years. The ASA is attracting more and more consumers, above all those who need a high mechanical and environmental resistance.

The PLA and the PETG are two of the most common materials in the world of 3D printing thanks to its ease of printing, good results and wide range of colors.

PETG is the most famous and used copolymer in the world of 3D printing. Its appearance is due to the combination of PET with glycol, improving the interesting properties of PET with a glycolization process.

The theory of color is a group of basic rules in the mixture of colors to achieve the desired effect by combining pigments. By combining 4 basic pigments you can achieve all the colors of the chromatic range. This, which a priori seems very simple, is an art in the press and, led to 3D printing, is still more complex.

The ASA is an amorphous thermoplastic terpolymer material similar to ABS created in 1970 by the manufacturer BASF under the trade name Luran S. The difference between these two materials at the structural level is that the ASA uses an acrylic elastomer and the ABS an elastomer of butadiene.