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: Nice Element Plastic. This versatile acrylate is very common for purchases at Shapeways, together with all the pieces from miniatures to 3D printed plastic grasp molds.

New choices like Nice Element Plastic in Clear Extremely and Grey function wonderful selections whether or not you’re designing for the Shapeways Market, purchasing the hundreds of merchandise out there there, or importing a customized design for us to 3D print.

3D Printing with Clear Extremely Nice Element Plastic

Clear Extremely Nice Element Plastic is a superb answer if you happen to want a cloth much less vulnerable 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 elements the place inflexible performance is important.

Different purposes embrace:

• Translucent prototypes for plastic injection molding
• Purposeful snap-fit assemblies requiring drilling, tapping, and machining
• Injection molding plastic screw bosses and threads
• Translucent circulation visualization and dye-tinted purposes
• Optically clear sight home windows for digital fixtures
• Microfluidics, capillary fluidics, and lab-on-a-chip merchandise

Nice Element Plastic elements may also be painted simply because of the exceptionally clean, constant surfaces–good for smaller 3D printed merchandise requiring excessive accuracy, wonderful options, and sharp edges.

3D Printing with Grey Nice Element Plastic

Providing related materials properties to Clear Extremely Nice Element Plastic, this opaque Grey serves as the proper base for portray and enhancing intricate 3D mannequin particulars.

The robust visible distinction of Grey Nice Element Plastic additionally makes it supreme for practical purposes with excessive element, in addition to elements that require drilling, tapping, and machining. Whereas this inflexible materials serves the identical purposes as its Clear counterpart, we additionally suggest Grey Nice 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 collateral, fashions, and mockups

Finishes

New finishes for Nice Element Plastic supplies embrace:

• Grey Nice Element Plastic: 3D Programs Visijet M2R-GRY materials at HD decision settings (800 x 900 DPI) to supply wonderful particulars at 32 micron layer peak.
• Clear Extremely Nice Element Plastic: 3D Programs Visijet M2R-CL materials at UHD decision settings (1600 x 900 DPI) to supply best particulars at 32 micron layer peak.

Expertise

We 3D print all Nice 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 expertise 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 Nice Element Plastic merchandise, we suggest that you become familiar with the design pointers right here.