Overview
Discover why global additive manufacturing leader, Stratasys, is ‘unlocking’ its most successful production 3D printer, the Fortus F450mc. The printer which boasts more than 2000 installs, will now offer a much wider range of material options that are optimised for specific applications, with the ability to tweak over 150 parameters on the printer itself. This allows for very fine ‘tuning’ of print parameters such as extrusion temperature, oven temperature, bead volume, and print speed.
By leveraging the resource and knowledge of 3rd parties, various industry leading material suppliers’ can now offer their material filaments, allowing many more industries and applications to apply 3D printing to their manufacturing operations. Material suppliers include Victrex, Kimya, Covestro and more.
It’s a shift that customers in automotive, aerospace, defence, oil and gas, rail as well as within the broad global service bureau communities have been asking for as it will allow for specific properties to be developed depending upon application. This may include higher HDTs, faster printing or lower costs per part. Users will actually be able to create their own Intellectual Property related to filament extrusion profiles.
The key objective behind the move is to accelerate additive manufacturing’s move to the factory floor and into end-use production parts.
Notable materials include various colours of Ultem 9085 resins, glass fibre filled Nylon /666.
Register now to hear from Stratasys engineer, Dave Hayden about the exciting potential and what this move will mean for your industry.
Learning Objectives:
- What open materials means and the benefits to industry
- The parameters available to tweak and tune materials when ‘unlocking’ the Fortus 450mc
- Discover industry use cases from automotive, aerospace, defence, oil and gas, as well as rail
- How to ensure reliability and repeatability with open materials
