FDM 3D Printing is a cost-effective and recognizable additive manufacturing technology worldwide. This technology has a wider application in rapid prototyping or low volume production due to its speed and precision in generating three-dimensional polymeric structures utilizing a choice of feedstock materials. Because FDM requires little post-processing and more materials are available, the lead time and delivery time are fast.
Fused Deposition Modeling technology, also referred to as an additive manufacturing process that belongs to the material extrusion family. In FDM 3D Printing, an object is constructed by selectively depositing molten material layer-by-layer over a pre-determined path. Below we made a list to classify the types and the correspondent technology.
The working process of FDM is to melt the material into liquid state at high temperature, this molten polymer is extruded through a nozzle and deposited onto the print head, then solidify it, and finally arrange it in the three-dimensional space to form solid objects.
Also, the system of FDM
uses innovative printer software to separate a 3D computer aided design (CAD)
file into individual slices. Then each slice in the file can be converted into
machine code to deposit the first layer of material onto the build platform. Most important of all, the Cartesian
coordinate system will be used in determining the printer head must follow
across the X and Y axes to place the first layer of material onto building
platform. Once the object has been created, the materials that are used to
support the object can then be removed.
We know that FDM 3D Printing is widely known for its accuracy and speed. For the precision, we used the most advanced industrial FDM 3D Printers designed to meet tolerance at +/- 0.004” or +/- 0.002” per inch, whichever is greater.
More available materials in FDM 3D Printing, it includes several types: Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS-M30, ABSi), Acrylonitrile styrene acrylate (ASA), Polycarbonates (PC, PC-ABS, PC-ISO) and high-performance plastic (Ultem 1010 and UItem 9085). Please below format to know more properties.
|
Material Name |
Tensile Strength, Yield (XZMpa-ZX Mpa) |
HDT @ 66 psi (℃) |
Elongation at Break (XZ%-ZX%) |
Color(s) |
|
ABS-ESD7 |
36Mpa |
96℃ |
3% |
Black (electrostatic dissipative properties) |
|
ABS-M30 |
32Mpa-28Mpa |
96℃ |
7%-2% |
Black, blue, dark, grey, Ivory, red, white. |
|
ABSi |
37Mpa |
86℃ |
4.4% |
Translucent Natural, Translucent Amber, Translucent Red |
|
ASA |
27Mpa |
98℃ |
9%-3% |
Black, dark blue, dark gray, light gray, green, ivory, orange, red, white, yellow |
|
PC |
57Mpa-42Mpa |
138℃ |
4.8%-2.5% |
White |
|
PC-ABS |
41Mpa |
110℃ |
6% |
Black |
|
PC-ISO |
57Mpa |
133℃ |
4% |
Translucent Natural, white |
|
ULTEM 1010 |
64Mpa-41Mpa |
216℃ |
3.3%-2.0% |
Amber (Natural) |
|
ULTEM 9085 |
47Mpa-33Mpa |
153℃ |
5.8%-2.2% |
Black, Tan |
FDM 3D Printing become popuar and widerly used printing technology today by a wide margin. If you are interested in this technology or you have some parts need to be printed, welcome to contact us, we would love to help with your project.
