Supporting engineering-grade filament has been troublesome and not using a help materials devoted to greater temperature 3D printing. Ionic goals to resolve that.
Posted on September 4, 2019
by
Alec Richter
Ionic Hybrid Help Materials has been formulated to be the best selection for supporting useful, temperature resistant 3D printing supplies. Efficiently printing high-quality, intricate useful elements has at all times relied on help scaffolding. Historically 3D printing utilizing the identical materials as your completed half works, however there are limits to its use; internal, laborious to achieve cavities or clean undersides are almost not possible to work with. It’s now commonplace to make use of a second extruder to make the most of a help materials that may be dissolved away or trivially faraway from these inside surfaces can obtain the specified end in your 3D printed elements.
Increased Temperature 3D Printing
The trade commonplace for supporting PLA 3D prints has been PVA; their comparable printing temperatures means it sticks to PLA, it prints simply, and while you want it to it dissolves away cleanly utilizing simply water, however the identical couldn’t be stated for high-temperature supplies. Ionic Hybrid Help has been developed to be paired with nylon, together with NylonX and NylonG, because of its greater printing temperature, so helps stick higher to the printed elements and don’t warp or soften away like different help supplies would possibly. Different supplies with an analogous printing temperature like ABS, PETG, RYNO, or TPU all print exceptionally nicely with it as nicely.
Increased temperature printing means appropriate with NylonX and NylonG.
Dissolvable
Due to the chemical make-up of Ionic, after it’s printed it’s going to fully dissolve in common faucet water. The place different supplies could require a chemical tub and cautious disposal, Ionic can safely be disposed of down the drain. With out the power to dissolve helps, some elements can have inner cavities that may’t have their helps cleaned out or depend on the 3D print popping out okay at finest.
Ionic helps might be dissolved in faucet water
Breakaway
Ionic is a “Hybrid” Help Materials which means not solely is Ionic dissolvable, nevertheless it additionally behaves as a breakaway help materials – it may be eliminated out of your printed half with regular instruments too. Earlier than you got down to soak your completed 3D printed half to dissolve the helps, break off most of it to chop down on the post-processing time of your 3D prints. Then you possibly can dissolve the remainder within the laborious to achieve locations and wherever it’s pressed towards the printed half, to keep away from damaging it with removing instruments.
Ionic Hybrid Help Materials – dissolvable and breakaway.
Actual World Functions
Most will wish to use Ionic Help Materials particularly with a twin extrusion setup and if 3D fashions have steep overhangs or inner geometry that may’t be reached by instruments. Manifolds, brackets, jigs, fixtures, actually something that must be 3D printed in a useful materials and wishes the help to again it up is what Ionic is designed for.
Actual world makes use of consists of so many alternative objects it is troublesome to record them – issues like jigs and fixtures with steep overhangs are good for Ionic.
{Hardware} Issues
Whereas Ionic doesn’t require you to have an all-metal hotend, if the fabric you’re utilizing as your construct materials does, then it is strongly recommended to make use of one for Ionic as nicely; for finest outcomes, Ionic must be printed as near the identical temperature because the construct materials, whereas nonetheless inside the printing temperature vary. The temperature vary for Ionic is between 230°C and 250°C for the nozzle, and 60°C to 90°C for the print mattress. That is what permits it to be paired with many alternative filaments, for the reason that print settings are very accommodating for lots of various supplies. Ionic dissolves in water, which implies it’s additionally very hygroscopic, in order you’d do with any filament that drinks up water from the air like nylon or PVA, make sure you dry it earlier than you begin printing utilizing a vacuum oven or alternatively use a PrintDry Filament Drying System to dry it out and hold it dry whilst you’re 3D printing.
Dry Ionic filament earlier than use for finest outcomes.
Put up Processing
To make publish processing a bit simpler, begin by breaking off any of the straightforward to achieve or giant sections of helps to chop down on time wanted to dissolve the whole lot. The perfect removing course of has one thing to agitate a shower of heat faucet water, utilizing a pump to flow into the water, nevertheless it’s not required; it simply speeds issues up. Use a container that’s considerably bigger than the 3D printed half; the water will get saturated over time and wishes altering to proceed dissolving helps, for finest outcomes use a big container to stop altering the water too usually.
Use a container considerably bigger than your supported half to stop the water from getting oversaturated too shortly.
Supporting superior, high-temperature supplies is a breeze with the assistance of Ionic Hybrid Help Materials. Ionic is obtainable in each 1.75mm and 2.85mm diameters so you may get printing regardless of the twin extrusion setup you’ve. To order your spool at this time, take a look at the gathering: right here.