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How much does your 3D printing service cost?

The cost of your 3D printed parts depends on factors such as part volume, part complexity, choice of material, which 3D printing technology is used, and if any post processing is required. For more details on these cost factors, see our article on the cost of 3d printing. To check the cost of your 3D printed part, simply upload a CAD (.STL) file and select your material and 3D printing technology to receive a quote within seconds.

How do you guarantee the quality of my prints?

Your parts are made by experienced 3D printing shops within our network. All facilities are regularly audited to ensure they consistently meet the Hubs quality standard. We include a standardized inspection report with every order and offer a First Article Inspection service on orders of 100+ units.

We have partners in our network with the following certifications, available on request: ISO9001, ISO13485 and AS9100.
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How do I select the right 3D printing process for my prints?

You can select the right 3D printing process by examining which materials suit your need and what your use case is.

By material: if you already know which material you would like to use, selecting a 3D printing process is relatively easy, as many materials are technology specific.
By use case: once you know whether you need a functional or visual part, choosing a process is easy.

For more help, read our guide to selecting the right 3D printing process. Find out more about Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) and Stereolithography (SLA).

How can I reduce the cost of my 3D prints?

In order to reduce the cost of your 3D prints you need to understand the impact certain factors have on cost. The main cost influencing factors are the material type, individual part volume, printing technology and post-processing requirements.

Once these have been decided, an easy way to further cut costs is to reduce the amount of material used. This can be done by decreasing the size of your model, hollowing it out, and eliminating the need for support structures.

To learn more, read our full guide on how to reduce the cost of 3D printing.

Where can I learn more about 3D printing?

Our knowledge base is full of in-depth design guidelines, explanations on process and surface finishes, and information on how to create and use CAD files. Our 3D printing content has been written by an expert team of engineers and technicians over the years.

See our complete engineering guide to 3D printing for a full breakdown of the different 3D printing technologies and materials. If you want even more 3D printing, then check out our acclaimed 3D printing handbook here.

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3D PRINTING

Specialized additive manufacturing equipment and materials are available for your fabrication needs. Whether you need a functional prototype in a specific material, a visually realistic full-color model, or a high resolution part, we have the service available for you.

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Stratasys J750

Full color, multi-material, high resolution 3D printer

Process

• PolyJet Technology (Resin)
• Microscopic layer resolution and accuracy down to 0.1 mm

Material Options

• Vero^TM opaque materials (neutral and vibrant colors)
• Tango^TM flexible materials
• Transparent VeroClear^TM & RGD720

Build Volume Size

• 490 x 390 x 200 mm

Printer Benefits

• Unmatched Product Realism
  • True, full-color capabilities with texture mapping and color gradients
  • 360,000+ color combinations to choose from & multi-material capabilities
• Maximum Versatility
  • Vast array of color & material properties, from rigid to flexible & opaque to transparent
  • Ability to print many diverse materials in one job or part

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Stratasys F170

Single color and high resolution 3D printer

Process

• FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) Technology
• Accuracy of +/- 0. 2 mm (about 0.01 in)

Material Options

• ABS-M30^TM
• ASA (Special Request)
• Soluble QSR Support Material (Default)

Build Volume Size

• 254 x 254 x 254 mm

Printer Benefits

• Smarter Prototyping
  • Excels at all stages of the design; from draft concept to high-quality functional prototypes
• Versatility & Performance
  • Ability to print everything from fast, low-cost concept models to durable assemblies

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German RepRap X1000

One of the largest 3D Printer with a closed building chamber

Process

• FFF (Fused Filament Fabrication) Technology
• Accuracy of +/- 0.2 mm (about 0.01 in)

Material Options

• PETG (Ask us about the current color options; varies)

Build Volume Size

• 1000 x 800 x 600 mm (39. 4 x 31.5 x 23.6 in)

Printer Benefits

• Fast and Precise Printing
  • Option to print quick and fast with up to 1 mm nozzle or precise prints with 0.1 mm nozzle
  • Two print heads and two filament feeders
• Large Print Bed
  • Capabilities to print industrial sized parts
  • Functional parts, tools, molds, and jigs
  • Nesting option for small to medium parts, at larger quantities

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German RepRap X350 Pro

Process

• FFF (Fused Filament Fabrication) Technology
• Accuracy of +/- 0.2 mm (about 0.01 in)

Material Options

• PETG (Ask us about the current color options; varies)

Build Volume Size

350 x 200 x 210 mm (13.8 x 7.9 x 8.3 in)

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Markforged Mark Two

The strength of aluminum with revolutionary carbon fiber 3D printing

Process

• FFF (Fused Filament Fabrication) Technology

Material Options

• Nylon
• Onyx

Reinforcement Material

• Carbon fiber (Special Request Only; ask us how we can implement these in your designs)
• Fiberglass (Special Request Only; ask us how we can implement these in your designs)
• Kevlar (Special Request Only; ask us how we can implement these in your designs)

Build Volume Size

• 320 x 132 x 154 mm (12. 5 x 5.2 x 6 in)

Printer Benefits

• Continuous Fiber Composite Printing
  • Plastic shell reinforced with Carbon Fiber, Fiberglass or Kevlar
  • Part strength greatly increased with direction of the fiber orientation (concentric or isotropic direction)

• Industrial Grade Parts
  • Produces the strength for tooling and functional parts
  • Combines stiffness and durability
  • Carbon fiber parts are as strong as aluminum, produced 50x faster, at a fraction of the cost

Laser Cutting and Engraving

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Trotec Speedy 400

The fastest and most productive flatbed laser cutter & engraver on the market.

Process

• CO₂ Laser Cutting and Engraving

Material (Min-Max)

• Acrylic
• ABS
• Wood

Build Area

• 1000 mm x 610 mm (39 x 24 in)

Printer Benefits

• Quickly manufactures parts with uniform 2D cross-sections.
• Greater production capacity
  • High-speed processing, optimized work area, speedy laser engraver (140 IPS)
• Endless applications
  • Electrical components, jewelry, medical technology, packaging design, and fashion

3D Scanning and Metrology

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CREAFORM GO!SCAN SPARK & UR5

Simplifying design, engineering, manufacturing, development, and testing.

Equipment of the 3D Scan bundle

• Universal Robot UR5 –collaborative robot with portable stand – reach 850mm (33.5in)
• Creaform Go!Scan Spark portable self-positioning white light scanner system that can be mounted on UR5 for automated scanning
• Streamline automation software with interactive common interface
• VXmodel & VXinspect software for 3D scan data inspection and integration into CAD and 3D printing processes
• PolyWorks software bundle with Modeler and Inspector Premium for CAD Modeling and Quality Control/Inspection

Application Benefits

• Capabilities
  • Captures physical objects
  • Reverses the scanned data into digital 3D objects or compares them with existing CAD data
• Advantages
  • Speed - Fast cycle times compared to any other system
  • Easy to use – You do not need a specialized robot programmer, the software provides an interactive interface
  • Flexibility - Open design enables small and large sized objects
  • High accuracy - Measure parts up to 0. 002” (0.050 mm)

How Relativity Space prints rockets on a 3D printer

Relativity Space co-founder, CEO Tim Ellis / Relativity Space / AFP

Relativity Space is printing a metal space rocket on a 3D printer that it invented specifically for this purpose. Almost all: 95% is printed, and the remaining 5% falls on electronics, seals and some other elements. 3D printing has many advantages. She's cheaper. She's faster. It is made on the spot, no need to wait until the parts are brought from another factory. It is stronger: fewer places for fastening parts. “The Shuttle had 2.5 million parts,” says Relativity Space co-founder Tim Ellis. “According to our estimates, SpaceX and Blue Origin have reduced this number to 100,000 per rocket. We have a thousand - less than in your car.

Many space companies use 3D printing, but only for individual components. Skeptics insist that no one knows how the printed rocket will behave during takeoff and in space. So far, the startup's first rocket, Terran 1, has successfully passed all ground tests. The first copy for a real flight is collected slowly and carefully checked. Now it is ready for 85%. A test flight is scheduled for the end of this year. But investors believe in the idea. Last November, Relativity Space completed a series funding round and raised $500 million. After that, according to research company Pitchbook, with a business valuation of $2.3 billion, Relativity Space became the second most valuable venture capital-funded space company in the world. In 1st place, of course, SpaceX (however, Pitchbook does not include Blue Origin in the rating, which is fully funded by Jeff Bezos).

Relativity Space has since raised another round, raising $650 million, based on a company-wide valuation of $4.2 billion. reusable. After all, competitors do not sleep. Relativity Space is just one of more than a dozen rocket companies created in the last 10 years.

Launch from Mojave

Ellis was born in 1990 in Texas. He is the eldest of three children of an architect father and a dentist mother. As a child, Ellis was fond of Lego and persuaded his parents to buy about 200 sets. He immediately threw away the instructions from them and collected the spaceships he invented himself. Until now, the thumb of his right hand, when at rest, arched back more than his left - Ellis assured the Los Angeles Times that this was the result of long hours when he assembled and disassembled the parts of the designer.

As Ellis got older, he began making amateur films with his friends, mostly action movies, where the characters were often confronted by zombies. He entered the University of Southern California to become a screenwriter. But already in his first year, he became interested in the profession of an aerospace engineer and joined the Rocket Propulsion Lab at the university, which was engaged in the development of rockets.

The University of Southern California is known for its space program. Its alumni include Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong, astronaut and former head of NASA Charles Bolden, and Dana Rohrabaker, chairman of the House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee. There are several laboratories where students create real rockets and satellites. “I was amazed,” Ellis recalled in an interview with the university website about the first time he went to test the rocket engine he designed and built with his comrades in the Mojave Desert. – I always advise students: take part in practical classes. So you will understand why you need to study this or that differential equation, scheme or line of code.

They wanted to be the first student group to launch a rocket into space. But, having carried out dozens of successful launches, they did not even achieve a suborbital flight - this was done by their successors in 2019, having developed more powerful engines.

Why leave Bezos and Musk

At Rocket Propulsion Lab, Ellis met and became friends with classmate Jordan Noon. Then their paths diverged for a while. Noon went to SpaceX, where he worked, among other things, on the Dragon 2 spacecraft. His emergency rescue system uses a 3D printed SuperDraco engine.

Ellis interned for three summers at Bezos' Blue Origin, and after graduation he was accepted full-time. He convinced Bezos to create a metal 3D printing division (by then many competitors, including Boeing, were doing it). He also created it from scratch. The traditional way of producing parts is turning on a lathe, stamping or casting with a mold. In 3D printing, robotic arms deposit layer upon layer of molten metal. A printed rocket has fewer parts, and therefore, places to connect them using welding, rivets, etc., and therefore fewer vulnerabilities. Skeptics object that if defects are found, the entire part has to be discarded and its manufacture must be started anew. But Ellis says that Relativity Space has developed a way to restart the printing process from the right place. “3D printed rockets are the future of rocketry and space exploration,” he told Inc. magazine.

Ellis and Noon often called each other and talked about rockets, although they worked for different space companies. They put together a rough cost structure to understand why rockets are so expensive. “80 to 90% goes to wages,” Noon told Bloomberg. 3D printing can dramatically reduce these costs.

Ellis once mentioned that he was going to start a startup to 3D print entire rockets. He later admitted to Inc. that he tried to get Bezos to print more parts for the rocket, but his suggestions were never fully implemented. Then he decided to take up rocket science himself. Noon liked the idea. Both left in December 2015 to create startup Relativity Space.

“I never saw him give up, give up, or fail to solve a problem, even a really difficult one,” Ellis told the Los Angeles Times of Noon. “I knew our startup was going to have a lot of problems, and he was the right person to make it all work.” And Noon noted: “I am strong in technical and practical aspects, and Ellis is strong in creative thinking and non-standard solutions.”

For 1 kg of satellite

Relativity Space received its first money from venture investor Mark Cuban. Ellis and Noon made about 20 attempts to guess Cuban's email address, as Cuban preferred texting to other forms of communication. Some of the letters were returned with a note that such an address does not exist, some got to other people. But one of the addresses turned out to be correct, and Cuban read the letter with the headline "Space Is Sexy: 3D Printing of an Entire Rocket." Ellis and Noon asked for $100,000. Cuban, after five minutes of texting them, agreed to invest $500,000 (although they had to wait two months to check if they were fraudsters). “They are smart, resourceful, driven and always learning,” Cuban wrote in an email to The Times. “These are exactly the traits I look for in innovators.”

First, the startup needed to create a huge 3D printer - there were no models on the market suitable for their purposes. A lot of effort was put into this. But now the latest generation printer is able to print a part up to 32 feet (almost 10 m) high, while the height of the Terran 1 rocket is 115 feet (35 m). Ellis and Noon say that even if the rocket venture fails, they can always cash in on the sale of industrial 3D printers.

Terran 1 /Relativity Space

Created with Cuban's money, the first printer could print parts half the size of the last generation. But the working rocket engine printed on it made an impression on investors. First, they invested almost $10 million in the startup, then another $35 million, and in October 2019d. - another $ 140 million. Ellis and Noon planned to stop there. They did not want to dilute their share, and the funds raised should have been enough for the time before the first commercial launch, if they worked without haste. But in November 2020, another $500 million round of funding was raised. As Ellis explained to CNBC, “the development and scaling of the project needs to be accelerated.” That summer, the startup moved to a new 11,000-square-meter headquarters in Long Beach, California. m, where there will be a site for the production of rockets (the most important thing is that their new printer climbed there in height). Over the past year and a half, the company has more than doubled the number of employees. She now has 400+ people and plans to hire 200 more this year.

Ellis told Inc. that they already have $1 billion in launch contracts from government and commercial entities. Terran 1 can carry up to 1250 kg of payload. This is smaller than SpaceX's Falcon 9, but larger than Rocket Lab's Electron. Relativity Space is targeting a mid-sized satellite niche, much like a car, Ellis said. Its competitors are the Russian Soyuz-2-1V and the European Vega. Or the same Electron, if Terran 1 displays several small satellites at once.

The launch cost of Terran 1 is $12 million, i.e. slightly less than $10,000 per 1 kg. Last year, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin announced a more than 30% reduction in the price of launch services for a number of satellites to the level of SpaceX: to $15,000–17,000 per 1 kg instead of $20,000–30,000.

Target Mars

The competitive advantage of Relativity Space is not only in cost, but also in the fact that it can print a rocket to customer requirements, changing both the diameter of the rocket and the shape of the fairing for the satellite - of course, within the limits allowed by aerodynamics, Forbes explained. And she can do it quickly. Once the technology has been proven in practice, Relativity Space is going to print the rocket in 30 days and take another 30 days for pre-launch tests, Ellis told Scientific American. According to him, even SpaceX takes 12 to 18 months to build a conventional rocket. But Musk claims that his reusable rocket is ready for a new flight 51 days after the previous launch.

So in June, Relativity Space raised another $650 million from investors to accelerate the development of its own reusable Terran R rocket (of course, also almost completely printed on a printer). Its first launch is scheduled for 2024. It will be larger than the first one - 216 feet (66 m) high and designed for 20 tons of payload.

For Ellis and Noon, the main thing is that this project is another step towards interplanetary flights. Musk is looking for a way to get colonists to Mars, and Ellis and Noon are hoping to help them settle on the Red Planet. "If you believe - and I believe - that Elon [Musk] and NASA will send people to Mars, then <. ..> they will need a whole bunch of things," Ellis told CNBC. “Our printers are reducing the amount of infrastructure that would need to be transported from Earth to Mars in order to establish a colony there,” explained Noon Inc. – Traditionally, you need to send tons of equipment for a factory that will be able to produce factories that, in turn, will produce cars, houses, warehouses ... In our vision of the future, you simply send a 3D printer to Mars that prints everything using Martian raw materials this is". In a speech to the students of his alma mater, Ellis added: “We are going to 3D print the first rocket made in Mars <...> I don’t see a future in 50 years in which rockets will not be 3D printed. It just doesn't make sense otherwise, because printing is much easier and cheaper."

AM: 3D printing in the service of medicine

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In a pandemic, medical personnel are forced to wear protective respirators for 12 or more hours a day, without the opportunity to rest and recover from them. As a result, painful hematomas appear in the area of ​​​​the nose and behind the ears. Over the past weeks, enthusiasts around the world have been offering solutions to improve personal protective equipment (PPE) to make life a little easier for those who save lives. For example, Sandvik Coromant engineer Wally Calayag produces up to 20 custom straps a day on his home 3D printer.

Sandvik Coromant Engineer Wally Calayag

Wally Calayag knows firsthand how painful it is to wear a protective mask - his wife works around the clock at the medical center. He decided to help her and other workers by 3D printing reusable mask extensions on his 3D printer. They are attached at the back and allow you to "fit" PPE in size, thereby relieving pressure from the bridge of the nose and ears. Most importantly, these bands are easy to sanitize and do not require special certification, which can take months to obtain.

Extensions can be easily printed on even the most basic 3D printers, and there are open source files on the internet that allow for customization. Wally uses plastic threads as a material. His printer can only produce three straps in 2.5 hours, but he has already made over 300. All funds have now been donated to Long Beach Memorial Medical Center in California, and Wally is working to produce 1,000 more extensions.

This act inspired others at Sandvik Coromant to use available additive technologies to help healthcare workers. His colleague Kim Ohayon has also set up his 3D printer, but it is already running at 12 belts in five hours. The 200 extensions he printed will also go to Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, where Wally's wife works.

« We are proud of and support such initiatives of our employees, as any contribution is important now, even the most seemingly insignificant one. And while 3D belts won't slow down the pandemic, they can at least make the work of healthcare workers more comfortable. In addition, such an example demonstrates that technologies that a few years ago seemed fantastic and were the prerogative of large industrial enterprises and serious medical corporations are becoming available to everyone. Sandvik Coromant cares about its employees and customers. By pulling together in this situation, we are demonstrating the true value and priority focus for our company - People, whose health is now above all ", - Vadima Nedilko, General Director of Sandvik LLC.

The company not only supports the initiatives of its employees, but also actively participates in providing medical institutions in Sweden and other countries with the necessary protective equipment. For example, the Westberg production site is involved in the voluntary collection of PPE such as gloves, protective clothing and face masks. The factory plans to donate these PPEs to the Swedish healthcare system, along with face shields that the company manufactures at its additive manufacturing centers. Sandvik Coromant has developed a new 3D modeling technology that can 3D print a face mask shield 200 times faster than existing methods. The technology allows for a significant increase in 3D printing productivity, which will help create protective masks for healthcare workers fighting COVID-19, even faster.

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