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SLA is all about precision and accuracy, so it is often used when form, fit, and assembly are critical. The tolerances on SLA parts are up to 0.05 mm. With the quality SLA can achieve, it is particularly useful for creating highly precise casting patterns (e.g., for injection moulding, casting, and vacuum casting) as well as functional prototypes, presentation models, and form and fit testing. SLA technology is extremely versatile and can be used in any number of areas where precision is paramount.
SLA also offers a speed advantage when you require a variety of functional prototypes or quick access to casting patterns. SLA’s winning combination of speed and precision make it an excellent choice for evaluating prototypes. The accuracy of SLA means your prints are faithful to the final design, allowing you to identify and correct design flaws, collisions, and potential mass-manufacturing hurdles before production begins. SLA provides comparable characteristics to parts normally machined from polypropylene or ABS for low to mid-volume production, and doesn’t require slow, expensive retooling for customisation or required tooling changes. SLA also allows for reduced material costs, as any unused resin remains in the vat, ready for future projects.
SLA parts respond exceptionally well to post-processing, giving designers the freedom to add new characteristics to a finished component. They can be bead or sand blasted for a uniform matte texture, painted to virtually any specification, from satin finishes through to automotive-grade clear coats and even electroplated with metals such as nickel, which makes parts significantly stronger, electrically conductive, and more dimensionally stable in moist environments. Clear resins can be taken a step further and polished or clear-coated to a true water-clear finish, producing optically transparent components suitable for light pipes, light guides, fluidics, and display parts.
This finishing option is a meaningful advantage over SLS, MJF, and DLP. The porous, granular surfaces left by powder-bed processes like SLS and MJF absorb paint unevenly and need considerable sealing and sanding before a show-surface finish can be achieved, and that same porosity makes reliable electroplating and optical clarity effectively un-economical, SLS and MJF parts are inherently opaque. SLA's non-porous, resin-cured surface behaves much more like an injection-moulded part, accepting primers, paints, clear coats, and plating with minimal preparation. And while DLP shares SLA's underlying chemistry, SLA's laser-based exposure holds cleaner curves and crisper edges on larger parts, so painted, plated, and water-clear surfaces retain fine detail without visible voxel artefacts.
Ultra-tough grey plastic with outstanding durability, accuracy and aesthetics to replace CNC-machined polypropylene and ABS articles
Fast and easy to process, the Xtreme grey material offers physical properties that are close enough to durable end-use plastics like ABS and Polypropylene to make it ideal for functioning prototypes in demanding applications, as well as for short-run production projects. Accura Xtreme is a grey plastic with the appearance of a final production part with outstanding durability, impact resistance, accuracy and a thermal resistance over 60 °C.
MPC12 is a Multi Purpose Clear resin ideal for producing functional prototypes, master patterns for RTV casting and investment casting patterns
Ultra tough white plastic to replace CNC machined polypropylene and ABS articles
Exceptionally tough and durable, resists breakage, and handles challenging functional assemblies, great for snap fits, assemblies and demanding applications, ideal for master patterns in Vacuum Casting
WaterClear Ultra 10122 is a low-viscosity material that produces accurate, functional parts that simulate an acrylic appearance, with minimised finishing requirements. The material is ideal for applications that require optical clarity, like fluid flow analysis, master patterns and concept and functional models
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