TEC, the world's leading manufacturer of 3D printers and materials, recently introduced a groundbreaking new material, E-RigidForm, and demonstrated its features by printing a 328-foot 3D print chain.
3D printing polyurethane resin for hard and hard parts, E-RigidForm is ideal for prototype and end-use parts. With a breaking elongation of 7%, it has a high tensile strength of 68-73MPa, E-RigidForm is 3D One of the most durable printing materials ever printed in the field. It is understood that ordinary nylon material strength is also about 50MPa.
The advantages of E-RigidForm enable EnvisionTEC to print the longest resin chain in the 3D world as a single piece. When printing such long and heavy items, weaker materials will droop, resulting in print failure. The chain is the largest in EnvisionTEC Resin printer 3D printed, Xede3SP print area 18x18x18 inches.
'E-RigidForm is a breakthrough material for our 3SP series of 3D printers, providing very large build areas without compromising speed and accuracy. Printing jobs of this size and complexity were previously impossible, simply because In the 3D printing process requires a lot of hardness of the link and layer. 'EnvisionTEC CEO AlSiblani said.
The EnvisionTEC Super Chain took more than two weeks to design and design more than 6,144 links, each of which was 1.5 inches long and arranged in 16 layers. It took more than 99 hours to be unattended for more than four days. The project is very Complex, it requires a computer with extremely high processing power to generate layers and support for print jobs.