Improved resolution for prototypes
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Laser Lines (Industrial and Medical) product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Jan 15, 2003
Stratasys has upgraded for its FDM Titan, which builds models from polycarbonate and ABS plastic.
Stratasys has upgraded for its FDM Titan, which builds models from polycarbonate and ABS plastic.
Improvements have been made in surface-finish resolution and support-removal automation for ABS modelling.
Resolution of model-layer thickness has increased to 0.127mm - a level previously available only on the company's highest capacity machine.
The improved resolution allows design engineers to build models with smoother surface finish and finer feature detail than before.
The second upgrade is the addition of the company's automated support-removal process marketed as WaterWorks.
This process uses water-soluble model-support material, which speeds the modelling process because it is simply dissolved after model completion.
"The FDM process requires no post-processing - only support removal.
Automating this removal makes FDM arguably the most effortless rapid prototyping process available", says Materials-Development Director Bill Priedeman.
The Titan's high-performance-material platform currently offers users two real engineering plastics (polycarbonate and ABS), and it will allow future upgrades to a variety of others.
Materials in development include an ABS/polycarbonate blend and PPSF.
The Titan's platform requires minimal changeover steps between modelling materials.
Titans are already shipping with these two updates, and existing users who wish to upgrade their systems can contact Laser Lines (Industrial and Medical) for more details.
ABS and polycarbonate models will not warp, shrink, or absorb moisture.
Like all Stratasys equipment, the FDM Titan requires no special facilities or venting and involves no hazardous materials or byproducts.
Stratasys systems typically represent the lowest total cost of ownership among the major rapid prototyping suppliers.
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