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ProX SLS 6100 3D Printer

The production-ready ProX® SLS 6100 features automated material handling and advanced 3D Sprint® software to deliver tough, high-resolution end-use parts and functional prototyping.

Production-Grade Materials

Produce tough, durable parts from a range of DuraForm® ProX production-grade nylon materials that have been optimized, validated and tested to ensure quality, with uniform 3D mechanical properties. The ProX SLS 6100 brings versatility to your applications, whether for functional prototyping or direct 3D production. Choose from industrial-grade, tough, impact and fatigue-resistant nylon 11 materials or strong, medical-grade, or flame-retardant capable nylon 12 thermoplastics, or filled nylons for advanced properties in terms of stiffness, temperature resistance, strength and surface finish.

ProX SLS 6100 Material Quality Control system

Unmatched Part Quality at High Throughput:

With faster build times than other SLS printers in its price point, high performance nesting and high density capability for a 25% larger build volume capacity, the ProX SLS 6100 delivers production quality parts in a fast and efficient process.

  • Best surface finish
  • Highest resolution and edge definition
  • High accuracy and repeatability
  • Uniform part properties

Predictive support through advanced 3D printing software increases uptime and SLS efficiency

Maximize Your Production with 3D Connect:

3D Connect Service provides a secure cloud-based connection to 3D Systems service for preventative support to enable better service, improved uptime and production assurance for your system. With 3D Connect Service, your system will automatically send alerts to 3D Systems' service team for immediate assistance in resolving printer-defined conditions or exceptions, solve problems remotely, pre-order parts, and schedule on-site services as required.

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Applications

  • Impact and temperature resistant durable parts
  • Covers, housings, enclosures
  • Jigs and fixtures
  • Reduced weight production parts
  • Knobs, handles and other dashboard/interior parts
  • Parts with snap fits and living hinges
  • Machinery components
  • Complex duct work

Benefits

  • Manufacture strong end-use parts and functional prototypes faster
  • Easily print any design without using supports or post-processing
  • Integrated solution with expert application support
  • Full automation of material handling frees valuable resource
  • Streamline your workflow with automated production tools
  • Lower cost of ownership with high throughput and material efficiency
  • Smoothest surface finish, highest resolution and edge definition of any SLS system

Tech Specs

  • Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) technology
  • Max build envelope capacity (W x D x H): 15 x 13 x 18 in (381 x 330 x 460 mm)
  • Broad range of production-grade nylon 11, nylon 12 and reinforced materials
  • Consistent mechanical properties
  • High production speed for its class of 2. 7 l per hour
  • Streamlined production control, including 3D Sprint™ integrated additive manufacturing software, fully automated powder handling and optional 3D Connect capability
  • Automated 3D part nesting
  • Maximized build volume and density
  • Setting the New Standard in 3D Printing

    Bring increased productivity and quality to your SLS production process with this exclusive additive manufacturing software with tools for file preparation, automatic 3D nesting, quality checks for pre-build verification, and efficient build planning,

  • A new level of management in 3D production

    3D Connect Service provides a secure cloud-based connection to 3D Systems service teams for proactive and preventative support, enabling better service to improve uptime and deliver production assurance for your system.

  • 3D printing with plastics offers many choices for engineering grade materials, elastomers and composites. Do you need flexibility? Strength? Bio-compatibility? More?

  • 3D print with plastics to build almost anything - used for prototyping, manufacturing, anatomical models and more. Select a plastic material and 3D technology to deliver the characteristics you need.

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What is 3D Printing?

3D printing, also called additive manufacturing (AM), is a technology used to manufacture three-dimensional objects. 3D printers usually use plastic polymer materials (but also occasionally metal) and form objects by adhering layers to each other in succession.

Like many other manufacturing technologies, a 3D printer’s production is mapped with computer-aided designs, or CAD models. Digital models are “sliced” by specialized 3D printing software (called slicers) into individual layers and accompanying support structures, then printed.

How does a 3D Printer work?

How a 3D printer works depends on the specific technology it employs, the most common being FFF (FDM), SLA, and SLS in that order.

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FFF - Fused Filament Fabrication

Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), also commonly known by its trademarked name; Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), works by depositing molten filament on top of itself in individual layers until the desired object’s final geometry is formed. FFF is the most common – and usually most affordable – form of additive manufacturing technology available today.

In FFF 3D printing, polymer filament is pushed through an extruder that melts the material at a hot-end – similar to a hot-glue gun pushing solid glue sticks through its hot nozzle. The polymer material is then “printed” in layers as it is pushed through its nozzle, the diameter of which determines the layer size, and deposited onto a build platform (or “print bed”) or preceding layers.

There is usually minimal post-processing required for parts printed with FFF technology beyond support structure removal – if they were necessary at all.

What are some features of an FFF 3D printer?
  • Usually fastest of common 3D printing technologies
  • Lowest cost in both purchase price and consumables
  • Extremely easy post-processing and minimal cleanup

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SLA - Stereolithography

Stereolithography (SLA), the second most common additive manufacturing technology, works by curing liquid resin to itself in successive layers to form the desired object.

In SLA 3D printing, a build platform is lowered into a tray of liquid resin where it compresses the material against the bottom of a transparent tray before being cured by a mirrored UV laser. The process repeats, pushing each previous layer against the bottom of the tray until complete.

SLA is capable of incredibly detailed parts but is a material-intensive process. Significantly more of the resin material is normally required than the final object demands for the process to be effective. With excess material usually left in the tray, failed prints risk contamination. Dedicated trays are usually required for each liquid resin – which are themselves consumable as they are worn by light exposure from the UV laser.

What are some features of an SLA 3D printer?
  • Capable of very small layer sizes for intricate model details
  • Time-consuming process, increased exponentially with smaller layers
  • Requires heavy clean up and post-processing with additional curing

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SLS - Selective Laser Sintering

Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) works by curing powdered material in successive layers as it is repeatedly spread throughout a build volume until the final object is formed. It is significantly less common than the other plastic technologies listed here, but is commonly used in metal additive manufacturing.

Similarly to SLA technology, the SLS process requires an abundance more material than is used to form the final object. However, there is little chance of material contamination and the required excess material serves a secondary purpose as a natural support structure.

Because SLS uses its powder material as a support for printed objects, it requires virtually no post-processing after the print has completed. It is capable of intricate detail but is a relatively slow and expensive process.

What are some features of an SLS 3D printer?
  • No post-processing required since excess material serves as supports
  • Typically the most expensive of the common 3D printing technologies
  • Time-consuming process, increased exponentially with smaller layers

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