3D Printing. Silicone.
3D Printing & rapid prototyping in Silicone with a new 3D Printing technology.
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A NEW addition to our 'Strong & Durable' 3d printing service, our Silicone 3d printing service fabricates your designs in real silicone elastomer.
Silicone offers you many advantages, including excellent stretch and elasticity, consistent mechanical properties through a wide temperature range (Below freezing to above the melting point of other thermoplastics), and our silicone materials have Biocompatibility certification. In addition you can sterilize our Silicone 3D printed parts with steam, gamma radiation electro beam.
Design Freedom. Our Silicone 3d printing process allows for unsupported geometries using a separate soluble support material which is then washed away post build. This makes the 3D Printing of geometries such as flexible bellows type designs with narrow apertures a realistic proposition.
Silicone. Strength & Durability.
Our Silicone 3D printing service is part of our 'Strong and Durable' materials portfolio and ideal for rapid prototyping, pre production and production parts & models where strength and durability are required. 3D Printing in Silicone gives your parts:
- Excellent surface finish.
- Aesthetically pleasing look and feel.
- Wall thicknesses and Individual details down to 0.5mm (and lower)
- High levels of accuracy & dimensional stability. DIN ISO 2768-1 v in the X-Y.
- Strength & Durability with robust material properties.
- UV and Weather resistant.
Where you do have enclosed volumes, the soluble support technology requires small exit holes to allow support removal.
'Silicone Rubber'.
Our Silicone Rubber material is currently available in a translucent white and Shore A value 35A. It is 3d printed using material jetting technology which is then flash UV cured.
The resulting silicone parts have good surface finish and excellent temperature resistance. Silicone Rubber is cost effective and supports delicate designs with thin walls down to 0.3mm. Suitable for a wide range of applications across a range of industry sectors.
Silicone. Material Properties.
Key properties for our Silicone 3D Printed materials:
Values depend on the Shore A value selected.
Silicone Rubber:
- Temperature Resistance: 200°c.
- Elongation at Break: 160%
- Tensile Strength: 2 to 2.5MPa
- Flexural Modulus: 68MPa
- Shore A Values: Shore A35
- Colours: Typically translucent white.
- Build Volume: 297 x 210 x 200mm
Click to download Silicone Rubber datasheet.
Preferred file formats: STL or STEP.
Examples of work. Silicone.
Silicone Mesh.
An example of a silicone mesh 3d printing in Black.
Silicone seal.
A seal design in Blue 3d-printed in true silicone.
Clear silicone
A cap \ seal design on the clear version of our silicone material. The yellow cable tie is sitting under the clear film showing the level of transparency you can expect,.
Silicone End Cap
A nice example of an end cap design which has grippy side features. This one showing the Grey colour. 3D-Printed silicone is UV resistant so a good match for out door applications.
Stepped thickness silicone sheet
True Silicone. This examples shows stepped thicknesses of print in white. The top surface has the characteristic gloss finish associated with this process. The layers are 1.3mm, 0.8mm, 0.4mm right to left.
Fine Detail 3D printing in Silicone.
True Silicone. A great example of the superb detail offered by our 3d printed Silicone service.
3D printed keyboard membrane
True Silicone. Thin walls and excellent durability make 3d printed prototype keyboard membranes a great application for 3d printing in silicone.
3D Printed Silicone Rubber.
Silicone Rubber. Silicone Rubber part showing delicate internal lattice structure.
Delicate thin walled 3d printed parts.
Silicone Rubber. Delicate thin walled Silicone parts.
Silicone Rubber Seal.
Silicone Rubber. Seal design.
3D Printed Materials
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