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News Release from: Huntsman Advanced Materials | Subject: RenShape SL 7810 photopolymer
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 15 April 2008
Photopolymer aids IR camera testing
Prototal used RenShape SL 7810 photopolymer to produce a fully functional model of a new infra-red camera for testing and customer approval.
Prototal is a Swedish prototyping and part production service company specialising in the production of highly detailed prototypes and functional models using stereolithography (SL) technology, selective laser sintering (SLS), vacuum casting (PUR) as well as serial part production from milled tools In a recent project for FLIR Systems, Prototal used RenShape SL 7810 photopolymer to produce a fully functional model of a new infra-red camera for testing and customer approval
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 9 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Using the latest SL materials and technologies, Prototal was able to produce numerous design iterations of the camera, taking just two days to complete each model.
For painted parts, overall completion time was just one week.
"The shortest possible development and delivery time for this model was very important", said Jonas Sandwall, Project Manager at Prototal.
"The time to market schedule for this new infra-red camera was very tight, so to produce the precise, highly detailed models the customer wanted, stereolithography technology was the only option".
Prototal provides a full SL model development and production service to customers, delivering a fully functional prototype from original CAD data provided by the client.
With this particular application, the prototype parts were produced in an SLA 5000 SL apparatus using Huntsman's RenShape SL 7810 photopolymer.
RenShape SL 7810 is one of the latest SL photopolymers from Huntsman, designed to create prototype models and parts with improved overall functionality.
These durable parts have high impact strength together with long-term dimensional stability, even under conditions up to 40C and 90% humidity.
In addition to these versatile properties, RenShape SL 7810 is a white, ABS-like, low viscosity and highly stable SL resin.
It produces strong models and prototype parts, so is particularly suitable for the field testing and customer approval systems required by applications such as the FLIR infra-red camera.
The model it produces has a good surface finish with fine detail.
Processing with SL 7810 is also easier due to the material's low viscosity and high strength of the green models.
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