MatterHackers Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Mara Hitner, is joined by particular company Eric Woodridge of Somerset Neighborhood Faculty and Mark Holthaus of L3Harris in addition to moderator Robert Schoenberger for an in-depth dialogue on superior supplies and their rising presence in 3D printing, particularly BASF Ultrafuse 316L, a polymer and 316L stainless-steel composite filament that yields pure metallic elements through customary FFF printer programs and case research using this additive manufacturing course of for instruments, jigs, and fixtures in each the academic {and professional} worlds.
Find out how Somerset Neighborhood Faculty is making actual stainless-steel metallic elements on $400 3D printers, sending them away for debinding and sintering, after which machining and welding the elements at a fraction of the price of conventional strategies of fabrication. L3Harris is saving 1000’s printing 316L in-house versus utilizing service bureaus for his or her work.
The dialogue additionally contains technical data, such because the parameters and capabilities of working with this materials, together with: hotend and mattress temperatures, nozzle necessities, anisotropic shrinkage, bowden and construct floor compatibility, and extra.
Lastly, the presenters draw parallels between present various conventional manufacturing processes equivalent to funding casting, the occupational and security hazards related to these strategies, and the position this new expertise may play in changing typical manufacturing processes within the circumstances of fast prototyping or small-scale industrial metallic manufacturing.
You should buy BASF Ultrafuse 316L HERE, or e mail gross sales@matterhackers.com with questions on how to make sure success along with your use case.