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THE NEXT GENERATION OF 3D PRINTING Leading companies worldwide have proven the power of 3D printing to reduce delivery time, lower production costs, improve quality and support lean manufacturing.

Your Guide to Additive Manufacturing Benefits

Cut prototype development time and costs with PolyJet technology

Engineers discuss design, development and implementation successes

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ContentsMarket Growth: Forecast

A New Manufacturing Blueprint

• A Future Where Everything is Additively Manufactured?

• A Point-by-Point Guide to Benefits and Impediments

• Supply Chains Interrupted

• Putting AM to Work

• Challenges

Prospects & Challenges: Industrial Manufacturing

• PolyJet 3D Printing: Not Just for Industrial, Medical Prototyping Anymore

Success Stories

• NordicNeuroLab Case Study

• Shimada Case Study

• TE Connectivity Case Study

Products Guide

• PolyJet Printing Technology

• Objet30: A Powerful Desktop 3D Printer

• Objet260 Connex1 Fast Prototyping, With Realism

• Connex3 3D Production Systems: Hundreds of Materials for Maximum Versatility

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3D Printing OpportunitiesMarket Growth: Forecast

The first 3D printing technology, stereolithography, was introduced 30 years ago. Despite its advantages, high costs of license fees, among other factors, limited its adoption. This was also true for fused deposition modeling (FDM), which was pioneered by S. Scott Crump and Stratasys, who continue to innovate in the additive manufacturing AM industry.

But now the obstacle of high licensing fees is ending, largely because patents on FDM and related processes began to expire in 2009. The result is an opportunity for established manufacturers, startups, and individuals (sometimes called makers) to move into the 3D printing arena. FDM’s increased popularity has made it the face of 3D printing as consumer-oriented FDM systems can now be purchased for a few hundred dollars. Industrial systems are now within reach for even small-volume manufacturers.

More patents have expired recently, or soon will. In 2014, copyrights protecting selective laser sintering (SLS), the premier metal 3D printing technique, and processes involved with FDM and photopolymer inkjet printing expired. IHS Technology reports that the patent on SLS of filled-composite materials will lapse in 2015, and more copyrights will expire in the near future.

At the same time, the capital investment needed to acquire these technologies is falling, the result of increasing competition. Currently SLS machines cost between $200,000 and $1 million depending on build quality and throughput. Estimates from IHS suggest that within a few years comprehensive SLS systems could be available for $30,000 to $150,000. This dramatic price fall will enable more businesses to adopt this transformative technology.

Based on these factors, research from IHS suggests that 3D printing revenues will top $35 billion in 2020, up from $5 billion in 2014 (a year-over-year growth of about 40%). The biggest market shares for AM are in the industrial and manufacturing sectors. Of the $35 billion in revenue, $13 billion will come from tooling fabrication and $12 billion from industrial system and parts manufacturing. 3D printing services will constitute $7 billion. The remaining $4 billion is forecast to be split between consumer products and materials sales.

These numbers translate into mammoth opportunities in the AM marketplace for individual makers, niche manufacturers and global corporations. And they all stand to become early technology adopters, thereby helping to usher in a new era of manufacturing.

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A New Manufacturing BlueprintA Future Where Everything is Additively Manufactured?Additive manufacturing is on track to becoming a killer application, combining high value with swift and widespread adoption. Once AM gains traction for broad-based manufacturing applications, there likely will be no way to stop it. IHS Technology indicates that the majority of manufacturing can and will transition to AM. The only questions are how soon and how disruptive that transition will be to traditional manufacturing.

Manufacturers are having success with hybrids of additive and subtractive manufacturing techniques, says IHS Technology. One example is a 3D printer mated with a CNC machine, invented by Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies. This system has been used to refurbish worn and degraded parts, including for critical components such as jet turbine blades. Another system, the LASERTEC 65 3D by Japanese manufacturer DMG MORI, uses a diode laser that deposits metal powders 10 times faster than powder bed laser sintering. Subtractive machining then is completed with a high-precision five-axis robotic table.

The U.S. space agency NASA also has considerable interest in AM, both for its unique manufacturing processes and for the potential for printing spare parts and even tools

in orbiting spacecraft. NASA engineers have developed a 3D printing technique that allows components to be made of multiple metals or alloys. The printer transitions metals from the inside out, as opposed to typical 3D printers that add layers vertically. Managing the alloy ratio of a component during the build can prevent coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) mismatches and defects that develop from welded components exposed to stressful environments. Printer operators control the alloy ratio during the build, yielding a finished product with no welds or fasteners.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, along with the California Institute of Technology and Penn State University, used precisely this technique to fabricate a mirror mount for space-based optical applications. The mount transitions from stainless steel at its foundation to Invar at its mirror support. Invar has the same CTE as the mirror glass, while the stainless steel base will be installed on a stainless steel optical bench. Future astronauts could use this technology to repair spacecraft during missions. The technology could also replace welds, bonds, and other joining methods in automotive and commercial aerospace industries.

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A Point-by-Point Guide to Benefits and Impediments

Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology, and the potential for direct digital manufacturing, offers multiple advantages for manufacturers.

Supply chain benefits: • Printing products on demand eliminates inventory

overhead.• Bulk printer materials can be shipped to printer

locations. Customers can pick up discrete parts or have them printed on site. Localization may reduce or in some cases end outsourced manufacturing to low-wage countries.

• Prototyping new components for form, fit and function can happen in hours or days.

• Components and products can be conceived, customized and produced 100% digitally.

• Devices can be repaired quickly by printing new components based on 3D scans of the necessary part and digital repairs.

• 3D printing creates considerably less scrap than traditional manufacturing. Support materials are minimal compared to machining waste. Accurate printing, with resolutions to 1 micron, virtually eliminates rejected parts.

• Printed parts do not have welded seams, fasteners, or adhesives, reducing or even eliminating component vulnerabilities.

There are some technological impediments to implementing large-scale direct digital manufacturing operations. Among these: • Printing large components takes considerable

automation engineering and is—for now—prohibitively expensive. IHS Technology believes the move by Hewlett-Packard and other 2D printing companies into AM will help solve some of the size and speed

challenges.• Some printers require exclusive or digital rights-

managed materials. AM with industrial grade materials, such as alloys, ceramics, glass and carbon fiber, is still in the research and development phase.

• Material jetting technology provides the highest density for some 3D printed metals, but is only 98% as dense as forged metal. Most plastic filaments are synthesized from petroleum, a potentially expensive resource.

• Sheet lamination is at present the only AM technique that can print integrated circuits.

• Materials used in AM can emit waste vapors and volatile organic compounds. Reducing or eliminating harmful emissions is seen by some as a prerequisite for significant AM expansion.

Legal, regulatory, and economic concerns also affect AM expansion.• How can counterfeiters be prevented from printing

forgeries? How will OEMs ensure the quality of a part that was made by a third-party printing service? What industry standards are necessary, and who will enforce them?

• Employment opportunities created by AM will in many cases require different skillsets than those that are currently available, making training or retraining a prerequisite to employment.

None of these challenges will stop the growth of AM. As processing power improves and more manufacturers explore the technology, the drive to find solutions will increase.

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Supply Chains Interrupted

Additive Manufacturing has the potential to bring transformative change to supply chains. How these changes will play out remains to be seen, but in some scenarios, manufacturing could shift from global networks to localized ones. Warehousing, distribution and retail operations could change radically as AM grows. The supply chain could become as simple as paying for an item, downloading the blueprints and printing the item at home or at a local fabrication shop. More complicated parts could be sent to a printing service instead. Shipping operations would shrink, as trucks would primarily haul bulk materials for delivery to a filament manufacturer. Floating mobifactories could one day receive bulk materials in one port, use AM to process the materials during transit, and then deliver finished goods to another port, thus changing the face of global shipping. Local Motors, a pioneer in the field, believes that one day entire automobiles will be 3D printed. IHS Technology sees a near future where 3D printers are more heavily used in the automotive aftermarket. Body shops, mechanics and gearheads will be able to order parts through an AM printing service and print the parts they need without an intermediary. Today, 3D printing technology is perfect for small or new OEMs who need to manage capital and risk carefully. By adopting AM, these companies won’t need to manufacture and stockpile thousands of products. Small manufacturers can reduce tooling and assembly expenses, enabling a new era of self-reliance for small OEMs.

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Putting AM to WorkEarly adopters of Additive Manufacturing are demonstrating the technology’s potential in a variety of industries and services.

ToolingSeuffer, a German automation company, saved more than $50,000 and 50 days by switching from traditional fabrication to a Stratasys PolyJet 3D printing system. In the years ahead, tooling in poised to have the largest year-over-year growth among AM applications.

AutomotiveThere has been an array of AM applications in motorsports, such as electrical relays for NASCAR racecars, custom filter housings for Joe Gibbs

Racing and replacement parts for F1 racing teams. Using FDM technology, Lamborghini saved $36,000 and three months of lead time to prototype a supercar structural skin. Many consumer automakers are using AM for prototyping (Ford), to manufacture jigs, fixtures and hand tools (BMW), and to model and analyze components (Bentley). Polaris, Ducati, Land Rover and Orange County Choppers are all creating customized or limited-run parts with AM.

Printing services3D printing services will supply original equipment manufacturer-endorsed components, including licensed and trademarked goods, directly to consumers.

The AM process requires manufacturers to have expert knowledge about materials, equipment and printing services. Lack of this knowledge should dissuade amateur makers from printing critical components at home. IHS Technology foresees a time when print services lease printers directly from manufacturers to ensure they stay current with AM innovations. Aerospace and defense

Boeing, which adopted AM in 1997, has more than 20,000 3D-printed parts flying in airplanes today and plans to transition to AM wherever possible.

GE Aviation could be one of the first companies to implement large-volume direct digital manufacturing. IHS Technology reports that GE plans to manufacture more than 40,000 fuel nozzles by 2020 solely from additive technologies. Each LEAP jet engine GE manufactures uses 19 cobalt-chromium alloy nozzles. Each nozzle is built as a single component and is 25% lighter and five times more durable than traditionally manufactured fuel nozzles that are assembled from more than 20 parts.

3D printed parts are also used in spacecraft. IHS reports that Lockheed Martin, currently in the midst of redesigning its flagship telecommunications satellite, projects a 43% cycle-time reduction and 48% cost reduction by integrating more 3D-printed parts. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket engines incorporate an additively-manufactured main oxidizer valve body from Inconel. And U.S. space agency NASA is considering how 3D printers can fabricate tools and parts in orbit, or even help build the first space colonies.

The U.S. Army wants ruggedized 3D printers for front-line replenishment needs, and the U.S. Navy wants shipboard 3D printers for the same purposes.

MedicalCustom 3D medical device manufacturing is on the rise. IHS Technology reports this sector accounted for 12% of AM sales in 2014; an increase in patents filed for AM

applications suggests continued growth. Devices such as hearing aids, casts, dentures, eyeglasses and prosthetics can be fabricated for a perfect fit. Research into printing at cellular and molecular scales would enable printing of human tissues and prescription drugs. This could save millions of lives and improve countless more.

Consumer goodsEven in its immature state, 3D manufacturing of consumer goods is a multibillion dollar market opportunity, according to IHS. Personalization is well-suited for these products. Wearable technologies can be tailored to a person’s body; for example, Google intends to 3D print customized, modular cell phones.

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Challenges

The expansion of 3D printing brings with it some intellectual property and regulatory challenges. For example, anyone with a 3D scanner and printer could in theory obtain a product or part, scan it, build it and sell and distribute it. In this way, counterfeiters operating through a darknet market would be hard to find and prosecute.

The manufacturing sector will undoubtedly pursue aggressive enforcement of intellectual property protection laws. AD manufacturers may come to recognize the benefits of open-source and licensed approaches as part of the solution. Creative Commons licenses, now common in the music industry, can foster good customer relationships along with application feedback and design improvements.

IHS Technology predicts that the majority of companies will explore licensing their designs to third-party 3D printing services. Hasbro Inc. was one of the first companies to license their products, allowing individual AM artists to create and sell customized copyrighted toys in exchange for license fees.

Quality control is another area of concern. One approach to assuring customers that their printed parts meet a minimum quality threshold is to accredit printing services. This would require that technicians know materials and the AM process, and that manufacturing processes adhere to national and international quality-assurance standards.

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The excitement surrounding 3D printing makes the technology seem like it’s been mainstream for decades. But just five years ago, all 3D printers — from FDM to laser sintering — could only print one material at a time.

What a difference a few years can make. Today, PolyJet 3D printers can combine up to three different base resins into more than 1,000 digital hybrid materials to create 3D prototypes, molds for manufacturing new products and even fully functional industrial and medical products.

“When we started 3D printing, we could print a rigid material or a rubber material by themselves,” says Mike Block, Stratasys applications engineer. “With the new Objet Connex systems, 22 available base resins and more than 1,000 digital hybrids, we can mix different materials’ properties together, creating eight to 10 different types of materials in hundreds of different colors and transparencies. And we’re introducing new materials all the time.”

PolyJet Cuts Manufacturing Mold Costs Stratasys’ Objet Connex line of PolyJet 3D printers builds 3D objects one layer at time by applying drops of photopolymer materials to a sacrificial substrate, similar to an ink jet printer. The newest photopolymers are UV-cured in real time, resulting in 3D shapes with surfaces as smooth as machined or injection-molded parts but without the seam and flashing common to molded parts.

PolyJet 3D Printing: Not Just for Industrial, Medical Prototyping Anymore

Prospects & Challenges: Industrial Manufacturing

Although photopolymers are a different class of plastics than the thermoplastics and elastomers used in many production environments, they can simulate those materials mechanically, thermally and visually to meet the needs of a growing variety of industrial and medical applications.

For example, Stratasys’ Vero collection of PolyJet materials is rigid, opaque, comes in seven different colors and offers the strength necessary for a variety of objects ranging from engineering prototypes to soft-tool injection molds. Vero is stronger and stiffer than ABS thermoplastic, with an overall material property profile similar to acrylic, polypropylene or polyamide.

The Vero line also includes Stratasys’ first base resin, RGD720, which comes with an amber tint and is strong enough for fluid-flow testing in 3D objects. VeroClear, a newer version of RGD720, is fully transparent and often used to replace glass in lenses, light guides in automotive applications and covers in electronics and medical applications.

For applications that require more impact resistance, Durus and Endur add toughness and strength, respectively, to Vero. The additional strength makes these two materials well-suited to containers, packages and cases that have snap-fit components or living hinges that need to flex while remaining durable.

For applications such as low-volume soft-tooled injection molds, combining Endur and VeroClear creates Digital ABS. Digital ABS and Digital ABS2 also offer high-temperature resistance to the rigidity of VeroClear and the strength of Endur.

“When it comes to injection-molded parts, creating a metal mold can cost $100,000 or more,” Block says. “For our clients in the aerospace and automotive industries that do low-volume production runs on certain models and products — say 200 or 500 a year — it’s much more cost-effective to print the 3D part or mold than to spend weeks waiting for a metal or thermoplastic mold.”

An injection mold made from Digital ABS materials has a heat deflection point of 176°F and can hold its form for up to 100 shots depending on the thermoplastic temperature, pressure, viscosity, thickness of the mold walls and other factors.

“For a few thousand dollars, engineers can find design flaws in product parts much more quickly and at considerably less expense using 3D PolyJet,” Block adds. “With smooth surfaces and spatial resolution down to 16 microns, PolyJet parts are a great fit for soft-tooled injection molding.”

Recently, pump manufacturer Whale (Bangor, Northern Ireland) tried Digital ABS injection molds as part of its

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product development. In the past, Whale outsourced its prototyping to service bureaus and often ordered parts from China. Metal injection molding tools took four to five weeks to produce and cost tens of thousands of pounds sterling to create. Tools are now designed in a day, 3D printed overnight and tested the next morning with a range of end-product materials.

“We have already seen the technology take months off of our product development process, and that in turn minimizes risk,” says Patrick Hurst, managing director at Whale. “In fact, I estimate that we’ve shortened our R&D process by up to 35 percent. Add that on top of the 20 percent we’re already saving in terms of our design work — well, for me, it’s fantastic.”

PolyJet Cuts Healthcare CostsOther new base resins are aiding medical professionals to cut costs while improving patient care.

For example, Nordic Neuro Lab (NNL, Bergen, Norway) is an innovative medical design and production company that specializes in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). fMRI uses MRI technology to measure brain activity by detecting associated changes in blood flow.

NNL operates in a competitive market where uncompromising product quality must be combined with tight control of

costs. Extensive pre-production testing of new products is essential. Looking for an effective way to fully evaluate its product designs early in the development process, NNL selected an Objet Eden 3D Printer using Tango PolyJet materials to evaluate the placement of rubber buttons and controls.

“The Objet Eden 3D Printer helps us easily and quickly meet our customers’ requirements,” says Svein Reidar Rasmussen, hardware developer at NNL. “During development and design of a new product, we use rapid prototyping to show us how the final product is going to look and feel.” NNL uses prototypes to make decisions and solve problems in cases where other external products are used in combination with its solutions.

PolyJet-printed heart-valve replacements also are helping surgeons prepare for complex heart surgeries. “Digital materials will allow a surgeon to practice a surgery before the procedure,” Block says. “They can print the replacement valve based on a scan of the heart and figure out exactly what they need to do, where to make precise cuts, before opening up the patient.”

Thanks to their smooth surfaces and high resolution, PolyJet-printed parts are making their way into dentists’ offices as well. Annual molds of a patient’s teeth can be printed from a 3D scan and stored digitally. “Instead

of the patient choking on a mouth tray filled with quick set rubber material, a quick laser of the patient’s mouth is all the dentist needs,” says Block. “And no need to pay for an area to store hundreds or thousands of plaster molds made from those impressions.”

Stratasys has introduced four different materials just for medial applications: VeroDent (dental models), VeroDentPlus (high-resolution dental models), VeroGlaze (teeth veneer simulations) and Bio-compatible. A clear, colorless material, Bio-compatible is used by both medical and dental professionals when the 3D-printed part will have bodily contact. It has five approvals: cytotoxicity, genotoxicity, delayed-type hypersensitivity, irritation and USP plastic class VI. With these approvals, Bio-compatible material is used for direct skin (up to 30 days) and short-term mucosal-membrane contact.

“PolyJet and Stratasys’ original FDM 3D printing systems really complement each other,” Block says. “FDM uses production-grade thermoplastics, but PolyJet allows many materials to be combined to optimize specific material properties with far greater resolution and smoother surface finishes than FDM. Today, end users have choices when it comes to 3D printing, and as new materials continue to be introduced, we’re just beginning to explore the benefits of 3D printing to manufacturing and medical applications.”

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NordicNeuroLab: Reducing Time to MarketNordicNeuroLab Reduces Time to Market with an Objet 3D PrinterMost people would be willing to spend everything and more to diagnose a weak arterial wall in their spouse’s brain that could result in a sudden fatal stroke; however, budgets for developing cutting-edge diagnostic tools are more finite.

With this in mind, NordicNeuroLab (NNL), an innovative Scandinavian designer of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) systems for measuring blood flow in the brain, is always searching for ways to cost-effectively develop new diagnostic systems.

NNL develops its cutting-edge fMRI systems in collaboration with medical research and clinical groups around the world. Extensive pre-production testing of new products by all parties is essential. Looking for a practical way to fully evaluate its product designs early in the development process and cost-effectively develop low-volume production components, NNL decided to use an Objet® EdenTM 3D Printer to create prototypes at different stages of the product development process.

Models Provide Product Behavior Insight “3D printed prototypes give us the ability to verify our designs quickly,” Rasmussen said. “This has enabled us to speed up our workflow and create a highly effective development and design process. We have reduced time to market for our product line.”

NNL uses Stratasys’ rubber-like family of Tango resins to evaluate the ergonomics of buttons and controls. It uses VeroClear transparent resin to create translucent protective shells for sensitive electronics to better understand and identify otherwise unpredictable design flaws.

Reduced Manufacturing Costs 3D printing has helped NNL eliminate errors in the pre-production phase of injection molding, which represents a significant portion of new product development. The ability to verify a design before production eliminates the need to tweak production mold designs, avoiding thousands of euros in product development costs.

“The high accuracy, smooth surfaces and strength of models produced on our Objet 3D Printer [also] enables us to use them in the end product,” Rasmussen said. The result is a substantial reduction in production costs and time to market.

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Shimada Precision: Printing Detailed Prototypes at Low Cost3D Printing Helps Shimada Precision Bring New Business to Light Sometimes, new business opportunities are right in front of you, if you could only see them.

Shimada Precision (Kyoto, Japan) develops precision-molded transparent plastic resins and light-guides for use with LCD backlights, automobile lamps, and display guides, among other applications. Most of the company’s light-guide business comes from custom optics based on customer specifications.

Daisuke Takeda of Shimada’s engineering group saw an opportunity if Shimada could go beyond just producing prototypes to designing the lights, as well as the control circuits, light sources, and protective enclosures for the light assembly.

In-House Development Takeda and his colleagues decided to start by developing a modularized light-guide unit, which consists of an enclosure with an integrated light source mounted to the light-guide plate.

Shimada realized a 3D printer would save significant time and labor in producing the light guide unit in-house. Takeda

and his colleagues knew whatever 3D printer they purchased had to work with transparent resin, have easy-to-remove support material, and provide superior resolution and precision. When they factored in modeling size, their winning candidate was the Objet30 Pro™ 3D Printer.

“The material was a very decisive factor,” said Takeda, who appreciated the printer’s eight material options. “I was very surprised at the quality of the transparent material, VeroClear™… It allows us to take full advantage of our light-guide unit without any loss of light.”

Steady Stream of Proposals for New Industry After introducing the 3D printers, Takeda and his team have worked to develop a host of new products. In the automotive industry, for example, they’ve produced excellent designs for lighting and a panel that illuminates car logos beneath your feet when you open the door. In addition, they’ve created innovative road construction indicators that use the LED light-guide unit. The printer has grounded Shimada’s proposals in an industry where it had never set foot.

“We have some products that have almost passed the proposal stage and are just about ready to be cast as prototypes. Almost all of the parts were made with the 3D printer, including the plastic lenses,” said Takeda. “I never realized that we would be able to produce such elaborate prototypes at such a low cost.”

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TE Connectivity: Linking Customers to the Design Process3D Printing Helps Grow R&D Capabilities for TE Connectivity in ShanghaiWhen it comes to sports cars, you can never have too much speed – both on the road and in the development lab where success depends on the strength of the latest model.

TE Connectivity (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (TE), a world leader in the electronics industry, supplies 30 percent of the world’s top 30 automakers with connectivity and sensor products. To further improve its products and maintain market competitiveness, TE decided to invest in a 3D Printer from Stratasys. Since then, the printer has helped enhance its R&D capabilities, improved quality, shorten product development cycles, lower costs, and protect intellectual property.

Accelerated Innovation To speed up new component designs and keep up with the ever-changing demands of China’s automotive market, TE knew that 3D printing would expedite their R&D and prototyping processes while maintaining their high quality standards. After an exhaustive search, TE engineers chose the cost-effective Objet® 3D Printer.

“In the electronics industry, having short lead times is critical to being competitive in the market. The Objet 3D Printer helps our R&D division keep its competitive edge by optimizing the product development process,” said Roland Lu, Research & Technology Manager of TE.

Today, TE uses the Objet 3D Printer for product and mold design and industrial development. Customers are able to evaluate 3D printed products and provide feedback to TE engineers, who can now quickly adjust prototype designs. As a result, TE designers have increased first-time prototype approval rates to more than 80 percent. In turn, this has led to greater customer satisfaction and more followon orders, while shortening product development time by more than 20 percent. Lu estimates that the Objet 3D’s cost savings more than paid for the printer within one year.

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PolyJet Printing Technology: 3D print with precision in a wide range of materials

PolyJet technology is a powerful additive manufacturing method that produces smooth, accurate prototypes, parts and tooling. With 16-micron layer resolution and accuracy as high as 0.1 mm, it can produce thin walls and complex geometries using the widest range of materials

PolyJet 3D Printing Benefits• PolyJet 3D Printing technology offers many advantages

for rapid tooling and prototyping, and even production parts including astonishingly fine detail, smooth surfaces, speed and precision.

• Create smooth, detailed prototypes that convey final-product aesthetics.

• Produce short-run manufacturing tools, jigs and assembly fixtures.

• Produce complex shapes, intricate details and smooth surfaces.

• Incorporate color and diverse material properties into one model with the greatest material versatility available.

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Products Guide

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Objet30 Prime: A Powerful Desktop 3D Printer

Objet260 Connex1: Fast Prototyping, With Realism

The Objet30 Prime combines the accuracy and versatility of a high-end rapid prototyping machine with the small footprint of a desktop 3D printer, making it great for prototyping consumer products within limited space and budget. Powered by PolyJet technology, it offers five 3D printing materials and features PolyJet’s signature smooth surfaces, small moving parts and thin walls. With a roomy tray size of 300 × 200 × 150 mm (11.81 × 7.87 × 5.9 in.), Objet30 Prime gives you the power to create realistic models in-house – quickly and easily.

MaterialsThe Objet30 Prime features four Rigid Opaque materials and one material that mimics polypropylene. The Vero family of materials all feature dimensional stability and high-detail visualization, and are designed to simulate plastics that closely resemble the end product.• Rigid opaque white (VeroWhitePlus)• Rigid opaque black (VeroBlackPlus )• Rigid opaque blue (VeroBlue)• Rigid opaque gray (VeroGray)• Polypropylene-like material (DurusWhite) for snap fit

applications

Get triple-jetting efficiency in a footprint that fits your office environment. The Objet260 Connex1 lets you build three-material models as large as 255 × 252 × 200 mm (10.0 x 9.9 x 7.9 in.). With 16-micron layer accuracy and 14 photopolymers to simulate a range of material properties, you can see, touch, test and perfect every detail.Like all Stratasys 3D Printers built on the triple-jetting platform, the Objet260 Connex1 offers great material capacity and hot-swapping capability, so you can replace an empty cartridge without interrupting your print job.

MaterialsThe Objet260 Connex1 offers 14 base materials including:• Transparent materials with great dimensional stability

and surface smoothness• Rubber-like materials (Tango family) suitable for non-

slip and non-scratch surfaces or simulated overmolding• Rigid Opaque materials (Vero family) in white, gray,

blue and black• Simulated Polypropylene materials with toughness and

durability to create living hinges, flexible closures and snap-fit prototypes

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The world’s most versatile multi-material 3D printer puts products on the fast track through development and production. From testing to rapid tooling, get the properties, pigments and precision you need to build great products faster. Connex 3 produces a range of rigid and flexible color materials color by mixing three base resins in specific concentrations and microstructures. Each model or mixed tray can include the full range of colors and properties available in the palette you select.

Connex3 with triple-jetting technology gives you:• Great throughput for tooling and prototypes• Hundreds of two- and three-component Digital

Material options• 14 base material options• Up to 82 material properties in a single build• Material hot-swapping for efficient workflow• Two spacious build-tray sizes

Connex3 3D Production Systems: Hundreds of Materials for Maximum Versatility

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Objet Connex3TM from Stratasys is the world’s most versatile line of multi-material

3D printers. Connex3 3D Printers offer incomparably brilliant, consistent opaque

and translucent colors – a wider array than any other system. And they’re the

only 3D printers that print flexible materials in a broad range of shore values. All

with ultra-fine detail creating the most true-to-life modeling possible. Stratasys

is the proven leader in multi-material 3D printing. For the power to 3D print

the future, visit Stratasys.com.

The power to 3D print the future, today.

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