Printing Portal Hub FAQ
Which resin should you 3d print with?
Standard Resins
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Clear: Transparency, polishes to near optical clarity, great for internal channels and working with light. -
White: Neutral and matte tone, slight translucency when thin. Works well for sanding, and provides a great base color for painting prints. -
Grey: Neutral and matte tone, great for showing off surface finish and for printing small, accurate features, photographs easily. -
Black: Highly pigmented, our most opaque, high detail resin. Matte surfaces, great for printing small, intricate features.
What are the colour related to standard resin?
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Clear: Transparency, polishes to near optical clarity, great for internal channels and working with light. -
White: Neutral and matte tone, slight translucency when thin. Works well for sanding, and provides a great base color for painting prints. -
Grey: Neutral and matte tone, great for showing off surface finish and for printing small, accurate features, photographs easily. -
Black: Highly pigmented, our most opaque, high detail resin. Matte surfaces, great for printing small, intricate features.
What about tough resin?
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High-stress components -
Snap-fit functions and living hinges -
Machining -
Cyclic loading -
Works-like/feels like ABS prototyping -
Geometrically accurate prototyping under load
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Very fine features or thin walls -
Rigid or stiff prints -
High-temperature applications
Can you provide flexible resin?
Yes we can. Flexible Resin is an elastomer that allows for bendable/compressible parts. (A Flexible watch band printed in its final shape).
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Cushioning and dampening -
Functional prototypes -
Ergonomic prototyping: handles, grips -
Simulating soft-touch materials -
Adding soft overmolds to multi-material assemblies -
Packaging -
Stamps
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Simulating very high elongation materials (rubber band) -
Very fine features or thin walls
What are the 3D printing materials you can provide?
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Standard Resin – Clear, White, Black & Grey. Good for displaying high detail -
Castable – Castable Resin used for direct investment casting -
Durable – Use to prototype models that will eventually be made from polypropylene -
Flexible – Simulates an 80A durometer rubber -
High Temp – Has an HDT of 289 °C @ 0.45 MPa. Good for thermoforming, vulcanization, and electronics encapsulation -
Tough – Simulates ABS plastic. Choose for applications that will undergo high stress and strain