Formlabs formally launched Kind Now, its beforehand introduced business 3D printing service. Kind Now offers prospects direct entry to the corporate’s industrial stereolithography and selective laser sintering machines with out requiring them to personal the {hardware}.
The service targets customers needing printed elements on brief timelines, together with prototype validation, materials testing, and low-volume manufacturing runs. Components are printed at a Formlabs facility in Massachusetts and shipped to prospects throughout the USA in as little as two days.
Kind Now helps bulk add of STL and OBJ recordsdata, with quotes generated at checkout. The fabric catalog included greater than 28 engineering-grade resins, alongside Nylon 12 and TPU, to fulfill a variety of mechanical and purposeful necessities.
The fabric catalogue spans 15 choices throughout SLA and SLS, masking normal and engineering-grade resins in addition to powder-based supplies. SLA resins included Gray, Black, White, and Clear V5 formulations—all rated at 65 MPa tensile energy—alongside specialty choices equivalent to Inflexible 10K, a glass-filled resin with a flexural modulus of 10 GPa and warmth deflection of 218°C, and Elastic 50A, a silicone-like elastomer with 160% elongation at break. SLS powders included Nylon 11, Nylon 12, glass-filled Nylon 12 GF, and TPU 90A, the latter providing 136% elongation and 51 kN/m tear energy.
At launch, Formlabs additionally expanded the platform’s Normal Resin providing with seven new shade choices.