SLA 3D printers use a UV laser to cure liquid resin into hardened plastic on the print bed, turning the liquid resin into a solid, three-dimensional model. The resin is made from photosensitive monomers and oligomers, combined in short chains, which turn into long chains with post-curing. There’s an enormous
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The Formlabs Fuse 1 is the Formlabs’ first Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) 3D printer. It manufactures highly complex and intricate parts with unique geometries, using a high-powered laser to selectively ‘sinter’ material as opposed to a mechanical print head in FFF or a laser resin curing system in SLA. With
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We’re jetting off to Frankfurt, Germany for the 16 to 19th November to attend Formnext 2021. Formnext is a fantastic opportunity to explore the latest printers and materials, learn about different 3D printing applications, and network with industry peers. If you are going to be there you
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Several technology revolutions are converging at the same time, creating beautiful partnerships that are accelerating adoption. For example, machine learning enables the utilisation of big data, and 3D printing is accelerating electric vehicle development in a variety of exciting ways. At Additive-X, we’re passionate about additive manufacturing as a way to
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Form 3L and Form 3BL: A Complete Ecosystem for Large Part Production, Now With Automated Post-Processing With today’s launch of the Formlabs automated large format post-processing machines, Form Wash L and Form Cure L, the Form 3L and Form 3BL ecosystems now streamline the 3D printing workflow to
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The Formlabs Form 3 offers a diverse material portfolio for manufacturing jewellery with casting one of the most efficient use cases. The precision and accuracy of Formlabs’ Light Force Stereolithography (LFS) is perfectly suited to the intricacies of jewellery. You can easily incorporate 3D printed casting into your workflow to
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What is Formlabs PreForm Software, and what does it do? This article provides an introduction to Formlabs’ slicing software. Formlabs Preform Software is proprietary slicing software for Formlabs 3D printers, meaning you need a Formlabs printer to use it. PreForm takes your 3D model file and slices it into the
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Just over two months ago, Formlabs announced their Formlabs User Summit 2021, a free virtual event running from October 26-27, 2021. Today, we have multiple updates to share regarding the event’s speaker lineup across some of the most popular applications. Here’s a comprehensive look. The latest Product Design panel will
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Formlabs resins are designed to simulate a range of injection-moulded plastics from polypropylene (PP) to thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). Because the Formlabs resin library is huge (containing over 20 resins and growing), figuring out what resin you should choose can be difficult. Formlabs has an online material selector you can use
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With a stereolithography 3D printer like the Form 3, you can additively manufacture transparent objects and polish them to be optically clear. The Form 3 (and larger Form 3L) print Clear Resin with a print process called Low Force Stereolithography, which reduces peel forces on parts, producing fewer rough surfaces
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