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sPro 230 3D Printer | 3D Systems

Large Capacity Production of Thermoplastic Parts

Building large parts up 750 mm in one piece increases part strength, as attachment points can present a weakness in a part. Building the part in one piece also frees additional resources that would be occupied with the assembly of the different segments. The sPro™ 230 is also ideal for volume production of 3D printed small to medium sized parts.

3D Systems sPro 230 Prints in a Range of Production-Grade Duraform Nylon Materials

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Applications

  • Impact-resistant, durable parts
  • Engine housings and other protective covers
  • Large parts produced in one single piece
  • Knobs, handles, and other dashboard/interior parts
  • Jigs and fixtures
  • Reduced weight production parts
  • Machinery components
  • Lightweight ductwork
  • Small to medium run manufacturing
  • Healthcare devices and tools manufacturing

Benefits

  • Manufacture strong end-use parts and functional prototypes faster
  • Produce large whole nylon parts
  • Easily print any design without using supports or post processing
  • Integrated printer and material solution with expert application support
  • Lower cost of ownership with high throughput and capacity
  • Superior living hinges, snap fit and other mechanical joints

Tech Specs

  • Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) technology
  • Max build envelope capacity (W x D x H): 22 x 22 x 30 in (550 x 550 x 750 mm)
  • Broad range of DuraForm  production-grade nylon 11, nylon 12 and reinforced materials
  • High throughput, high-capacity printer
  • Automated 3D part nesting
  • 3D Sprint® additive manufacturing software supports as a virtual environment
  • Open material architecture – flexible print parameters

  • 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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With this in mind, this guide is simply here to help direct your exploration in researching and acquiring an industrial 3D printing system. We know you’re not going to impulse-buy a $750,000 3D printer based on a blog post, nor should you. But, we’ve interviewed resellers and users of all kinds to establish some of the most interesting systems for you to consider. We know that a top ten list would lead to more clicks, but this approach should be more useful to you.

Standalone Systems 

Markforged X7

A lifting tool made by Wartsila printed on an X7 in Carbon Fiber.

The Markforged X7 is the most heavily outfitted of the firm’s continuous filament fabrication machines, capable of feeding continuous carbon or glass fiber material alongside chopped carbon-filled nylon to create reinforced fused filament fabrication (FFF)-style parts. Geometric freedom may be limited when compared to other systems, but part strength is high due to continuous or chopped fiber strands being printed along with your part. A nifty feature of the X7 is a built-in 3D scanner which makes a contour map that optimizes nozzle adjustments during the printing process. Markforged’s Eiger software still outperforms the rest of the industry and it is key to making it easy to print and manage X7s in shared spaces, labs, and production areas. The X7 costs around $69,000.

Stratasys J750 Digital Anatomy Printer, J700, J720, J850 and J55

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Roboze Argo 500

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3DGence Industry F420

A PEEK part with support, printed on a 3DGence F420.

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Large-Scale Manufacturing of Fine and Highly Detailed Items

EnvisionTEC Perfactory P4K

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EOS Integra P400

Rendering of Integra P 400 [Image: EOS]

The Formiga P110 Velocis is probably still my favorite printer because I love the versatility that several of these systems can give you in terms of modular production and because they’ll print just about most things that you throw at them. EOS also has highly automated behemoth,s such as the P500. But, the very different US made Integra p400 was built to be versatile, adaptable, and be integrated into production lines.

Stratasys F900

The Stratasys F900 should also be considered when looking at high-temperature machines. This is an extremely good system for FDM industrial parts, offering high reliability, repeatability and detail. Stratasys now has made moves to widen its materials offering through partnerships with Solvay and others, which should do much to address its limited materials when compared to the open printers on the market. It now has PEKK, ULTEMs, PPSF, Nylon, etc. for a total of 16 materials. At the same time, however, because it is so well-dialed into Stratasys’ own material offering, this is a great machine that works like a charm.

HP 5200

The HP 5200 now has polypropylene which will be a fantastic material for a lot of new applications. PA 11 and TPUs also make more possible. HP really is expanding its offering and materials at a considerable pace. Especially for large volume manufacturing, the company now offers a lot of value and is considerably more affordable at a cost per part.

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High Temperature 3D Printing to the Masses / Sudo Null IT News

There is an impressive variety of thermoplastics that can be printed on consumer grade desktop 3D printers. But, despite this, most often users turn to polylactide (PLA) threads. This is not only the cheapest of materials, but also the easiest to work with. Its extrusion can already be carried out at a temperature of 180 °C, and good results can be obtained even without preheating the table. The disadvantage of PLA-printed objects is that they are relatively brittle and do not tolerate high temperatures well. For prototyping or printing low-stress components, PLA is great. However, many users quickly go beyond its capabilities.

Polyethylene terephthalate (PETG) is usually the next step. It is not much harder to work with compared to PLA, while it is more reliable and can withstand higher temperatures. In general, it is better suited for creating mechanically loaded parts. But if you need to make even stronger and more heat resistant parts, you can switch to acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), polycarbonate (PC) or nylon. And this is where the problems begin. These materials are extruded at temperatures over 250°C and closed chambers are recommended for best results. These printers are at the top of the budget range that hobbyists are willing to work with.


Industrial 3D printers like this one, the Apium P220, start at around $30,000. (PAEK, PEEK, PEKK). Components made from these plastics are suitable for aerospace applications as they can replace metal while remaining much lighter.

Such plastics need to be extruded at temperatures of around 400°C, and a sealed chamber is required for operation, the temperature in which constantly exceeds 100°C. The cheapest printers of this kind cost tens of thousands of dollars, and some models even cost six figures.

Naturally, not so long ago, the same could be said about all 3D printers. Once used only by well-equipped research labs, these machines now sit on the workbenches of hackers and hobbyists the world over. It is difficult to predict whether the same price-cutting race will start for high-temperature 3D printers, but the first steps to democratize the technology have already been made.

Engineering difficulties

Simply put, a machine that supports these so-called. "engineering plastics", you need to be a hybrid of a 3D printer and a stove. This, of course, is the main problem. The printer itself - of the type and quality we are accustomed to seeing on our desks - will not survive in such conditions. In order for a consumer printer to produce PEI and PEEK plastic parts, it needs to be seriously redesigned. This is exactly what NASA did with the LulzBot TAZ 4 in 2016.


LulzBot TAZ 4 redesigned to support high temperature printing

The first step was to design an insulated housing to fit the TAZ 4 and install a set of 35W infrared lamps for heating. Under such conditions, the printer's electronics would naturally overheat - so it had to be taken outside.

Stepper motors would also overheat. But instead of taking them out, the team at the Langley Research Center decided to build cooling shrouds on each of the motors through which the compressed air must circulate.

Like many desktop 3D printers, the TAZ 4 uses several printed components. Since they are ABS, they would quickly break down in a chamber designed to support PEEK. They were printed from PC, but even this material was not resistant enough for permanent use. In classic RepRap tradition, the team printed the last, third set of components on their most modified printer, in PEI plastic, commercially named Ultem.

Surprisingly, the team had no trouble changing the printer's nozzle to one that could extrude plastic at 400°C. The popular E3D-v6 extruder costs less than $100 and has been shown to be able to maintain this temperature. True, the team had to replace the thermistor with a better one, as well as edit the Marlin firmware so that it allowed it to reach high temperatures. For conventional printers, too high a temperature should cause an emergency shutdown.


Printing results from Ultem 1010 plastic on a redesigned LulzBot TAZ 4.

In the end, the NASA report indicated that the redesign of the LulzBot TAZ 4 was a complete success. They noted that an attempt to print PEI with infrared lamps turned off ended in failure - delamination and distortion of the model, which was to be expected. They did not specify the cost of the conversion, but given that at that time the TAZ 4 cost $2200, the entire project could cost 10 times cheaper than similar commercial proposals.

Starting from zero

A NASA experiment has shown that an existing desktop 3D printer can be converted to print with high-temperature engineering plastics, and quite inexpensively. But hardly anyone believes that this approach is the ideal solution. There are too many repetitive operations involved here, and NASA engineers had to abandon some of the decisions made by the LulzBot developers. Still, the experiment provided a valuable baseline for other projects built from scratch.

In September 2020, a team from Michigan Technological University demonstrated the Cerberus, an open-source, high-temperature 3D printer capable of creating items from PEI and PEKK, that costs as little as $1,000 to build. Without trying to adapt existing designs, the team started development from scratch, aiming for high temperature printing. All electronics are housed separately from the sealed chamber, which uses a kilowatt heating element to quickly raise the temperature in the chamber to operating temperature.

All stepper motors are also outside the chamber. Because of this, the kinematics become more complex than in desktop 3D printers, but Cerberus no longer requires a special motor cooling system.

Building a Cerberus is quite affordable for the aspiring hobbyist. It has a simplified circuit, ready-made control electronics based on the Arduino Mega 2560 and RAMPS 1.4, and the same E3D-v6 extruder as the TAZ 4. In addition, the team posted clear and detailed instructions for assembling the printer - this is not in the NASA report. meet.

Expanding possibilities

Whether it's NASA's redesign of the TAZ 4, or the new Cerberus-type circuits, it's clear that the technical capabilities of PEI and PEEK printing in the home workshop are already available for those who really need them. So far, it's not as easy as buying a $200 3D printer on Amazon, but if there is demand, cheaper machines based on the same principles will appear on the market. The situation is not much different from the current wave of affordable laser cutters hitting the markets in the past few years.


Fans all over the world print PPE

Is there a demand for such machines? A year ago, the answer might have been different from today. But in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, there is a new demand for the rapid production of personal protective equipment (PPE) that no one could have foreseen.

print PPE that can be sterilized at high temperatures. The team believes that masks printed from PEKK can be reused rather than thrown away.

Components that can be printed and re-sterilized will obviously have other potential medical applications. A portable, low-cost machine capable of producing such components has the potential to save lives in places on the planet where supplies and equipment cannot be quickly accessed.

Critics of 3D printing have often said that the main disadvantage of these machines is that the reliability of the items they make rarely allows them to be used for anything other than rough prototyping. But when a $1,000 printer starts making aerospace-grade components, we seem to be moving toward a manufacturing revolution at an unprecedented pace.

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