Industrial metals and alloys for prototypes and end-use parts
Direct metal 3D printing allows you to create functional prototypes and mechanical parts from various metals and alloys.
Industrial metals are laser sintered from metal powder. Available materials include aluminum, stainless steel, bronze and cobalt chromium.
For embossed and engraved details, we recommend a minimum line thickness of 1 mm and a depth of 1 mm.
Tip: if you are putting text on your design, use a bold sans-serif font for readability, such as Arial Bold.
As Metals are built up from powder, all the cavities in your design will be filled with powder. It’s a good idea to hollow your model to save costs and add some holes for the powder to escape.
Tip: having multiple holes makes it easier for the powder to escape, as we can carefully blow air through you model.
Binder jetted metals are highly accurate, up to 1 mm is enough to create clearly visible details.
The minimum feature size for printing with Metals is 3 mm. If your model is smaller or your feature is a thin wire connected on both sides, you can go slightly thinner to 1 mm, otherwise we recommend at least 3 mm thickness.
Metals printed by binding together powdered material using a binding agent. The powder acts as support material while building up your print, therefore no support structure is needed, providing you with maximum form freedom.
The model's wall must be thick enough to support the model. We recommend working with a minimum wall thickness of 2 mm when the wall is connected to other walls on two or more sides, and 3 mm if it’s only connected one side.
Functional prototypes and end-use parts from laser sintered nylon.
Engineering parts as strong as aluminum for the price of plastic
Realistic prototypes with excellent details and high accuracy.
