Photopolymerization/SLA
NanoOne Green 3D Printer Offers Increased Precision, Ability to Work With Broad Range of Materials
Formnext 2024: The printer features UpNano’s adaptive resolution technology, which dynamically expands the width of the laser beam tenfold to speed up printing in bulk material areas or shrinks it where precision is needed.
Angela Osborne
Managing Editor, Gardner Business Media
Cranial Implant 3D Printed From Hydroxyapatite Ceramic: The Cool Parts Show #76
Cranial implants are typically made from titanium or PEEK; in this episode of The Cool Parts Show, we look at how implants made from a bioceramic can improve osseointegration and healing.
Read MoreWhy Customization at Mass-Market Scale Is Finally Possible With 3D Printing
Printer speed and materials coupled with scanning technologies are contributing to more affordable and accessible 3D printed, personalized goods.
Read MoreFizik Utilizes Carbon DLS Technology for One-to-One Program, Creating Customized Bike Saddles
Fizik’s customized bike seat program uses Carbon’s Digital Light Synthesis technology and personalized rider data to create a line of truly custom saddles, giving bike riders the best bike seat for their posterior — only made possible through additive manufacturing.
Read More3D Systems’ PSLA 270 Creates Midsize, Production-Grade Parts Combining SLA Print Reliability
IMTS 2024: The PSLA 270 is engineered to deliver larger end-use parts more rapidly than similar platforms, bringing tremendous advantages for a breadth of industrial and health care applications.
Read MoreAzul 3D’s Ocean 3D Printer Offers Larger Streamlined Production Platform
The Ocean printing platform features modular high-area rapid printing (HARP) technology, which is the company’s version of stereolithographic (SLA) printing that converts liquid plastic into solid objects using ultraviolet light.
Read MoreIs Automation More Effective Than Size for Serial Production 3D Printing?
Micro Factory has developed an mSLA system that incorporates cleaning, curing and part ejection, not to mention 100 empty build plates, into the frame of a desktop machine. The result is a small unit for large-scale production.
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3D Systems’ PSLA 270 Full Solution Includes Postprocessing Accessories to Wash, Cure and Dry Parts
Formnext 2024: The PSLA 270 system is a high-speed, projector-based stereolithography solution developed to efficiently deliver midsize, high-quality parts with stable mechanical properties.
Angela Osborne
Managing Editor, Gardner Business Media
Q&A With Align EVP: Why the Invisalign Manufacturer Acquired Cubicure, and the Future of Personalized Orthodontics
Align Technology produces nearly 1 million unique aligner parts per day. Its acquisition of technology supplier Cubicure in January supports demand for 3D printed tooling and direct printed orthodontic devices at mass scale.
Read MoreFormlabs’ Form 4 3D Printer Offers New Levels of Reliability and Speed for Stereolithography
The Form 4 is designed to deliver most parts in less than two hours, offering users a powerful, affordable tool to bring ideas to life at fast speeds with excellent reliability, print quality and ease of use.
Read MoreNIOSH Publishes 3D Printing Safety Guide for Nonindustrial Settings
NIOSH has published a 3D printing safety guide for small businesses and other additive manufacturing users such as makerspace users, schools, libraries and small businesses.
Read MoreIntrepid Automation: How Investment Casting Benefits From High Speed DLP
Vat polymerization 3D printing for investment casting patterns offers a way to deliver design freedom at production speed.
Read MoreAltana Launches 10 Resin-Based Cubic Ink Materials for 3D printing
The new resins in the Cubic Ink family of 3D printing materials are focused on system-open and industry-applicable additive manufacturing across DLP, LCD and SLA technologies.
Read More3D Systems’ Accura AMX Resin Withstands Harsh Thermal Environments
Formnext 2023: The resin material is well suited for the testing of high-temperature components in applications such as HVAC, consumer appliances, motor enclosures, fixtures, mounts, stators, molding/tooling and more.
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Medical Molder Relies on 3D Printing to Speed Development of Inspection Fixtures
Medical molder Medbio uses FFF and SLA 3D printers in designing (and sometimes producing) its inspection fixtures.
Peggy Malnati
MMT, Contributing Writer, MoldMaking Technology
Louisville Slugger Uses Formlabs Technology to Accelerate Innovation
Louisville Slugger relies on Formlabs’ Form 3 stereolithography 3D printer to create both prototypes and manufacturing aids for designs of the composite and aluminum bats swung by youth and collegiate players.
Read MoreStudents Use Micro Metal 3D Printing for ISS Microgravity Experiment
Qualified3D printed lattice parts for the students using microstereolithography (micro SLA), which seemed to be the only process able to produce the parts with sufficient accuracy.
Read MoreChromatic RX-Flow 3D Printers for Reactive Extrusion Additive
RX-Flow printers are a low-cost option for manufacturers interested in testing and implementing industrial 3D printing with more durable, flexible materials than are available with FDM, SLA and other 3D printing technologies.
Read MoreEvonik Adds Three Infinam Photopolymers to Product Portfolio
Formnext 2022: These photoresin products are for use in common UV-curing 3D printing processes such as stereolithography (SLA) or Digital Light Processing (DLP).
Read More3D Systems’ SLA 750 for Cost-Effective SLA Batch Part Production
Rapid + TCT 2022: The system features the SLA 750 and SLA 750 Dual — which the company says is the first synchronous, dual-laser stereolithography printer.
Read MoreAM 101: Digital Light Synthesis (DLS)
Digital Light Synthesis (DLS) is the name for Carbon's resin-based 3D printing process. How it works and how it differs from stereolithography.
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7 Takeaways on 3D Printing As a Pathway to Polymer’s Future
The Cleveland section of SPE hosted “Additive Manufacturing: Printing the Path for the Future” on October 17, 2024. Speakers signaled where AM is and where it is headed with session topics ranging from pellet-based 3D printing to qualification and commercialization of additively manufactured products.
Stephanie Hendrixson
Executive Editor, Additive Manufacturing
Formlabs Launches SLA Printers, ESD Resin for Optimizing 3D Printing Workflow
The Form 3+ and Form 3B+ were designed to provide speed, quality and workflow efficiency.
Read MoreVat Photopolymerization and VOC Emissions: Study Results and User Guidelines
New research conducted by Chemical Insights, part of Underwriters Laboratories, is studying volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and particles emitted by resin-style 3D printers. Here are what the results indicate and how to operate machines safely.
Read MoreMicro 3D Printing Slashes Costs, Lead Time for Medical Part
Micro 3D printing enabled AntiShock to produce a small-dimension, high-detail part with greater accuracy than SLA and at 20% of the cost of CNC production.
Read MorePhotocentric Explores How 3D Printed Battery Electrodes Could Drive Electric Vehicles Forward
Precise control of battery electrode architecture through photopolymerization opens the door to new cell geometries and lighter battery packs for EVs and more, Photocentric says.
Read MoreStratasys Completes Acquisition of Origin
Origin’s resin-based Programmable PhotoPolymerization (P3) technology addresses fast-growing demand for tooling and end-use parts across multiple applications.
Read MoreStratasys Aquisition Brings New AM Platform to Polymer Production
Origin’s resin-based Programmable PhotoPolymerization (P3) technology expands Stratasys product range in the fast-growing market for 3D printed mass production parts.
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