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Available Laser Sintering MaterialsLasersintering.com has a diverse selection of Laser Sintering (LS) & Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) materials available. If you have a specific application planed for your prototype and you will find the guide below helpfully in choosing the correct resin. If you have any question or are unsure of the proper resin for the application you can ask your project manager to assist you in the selection of the proper material.
Glass-filled polyamide (nylon) material for real-world physical testing and functional use Applications:
PA 2200 is a Nylon 12-based material that has been specially formulated to meet FDA requirements. This specialty material can be used in contact with food and human tissue. Applications
Durable polyamide material with nicely balanced mechanical properties, processability, and fine-feature surface resolution. Compliant with USP Class VI testing. Applications
If you need parts in color, EX Black is a good choice. This material is perfect for parts that need extreme robustness and high impact resistance. Like Glass Filled Nylon, EX Black is used broadly in high-volume, tool-less applications. Like Nylon 11, EX Black is approved for on flight for aerospace programs where flame retardancy isn’t critical.
This impact-resistant plastic offers the toughness of injection-molded polypropylene and ABS and is suitable for Rapid Manufacturing. Applications
Improved strength, stiffness, and thermal performance compared to DuraForm® GF. More consistent mechanical properties than carbon fiber-filled materials. Typical Applications include:
Advanced Laser Material’s FR-106 is a polyamide composite specifically engineered for producing parts with excellent fire retardancy while maintaining superior mechanical properties. Parts manufactured from the FR-106 material exhibit high toughness and impact resistance. FR-106 parts can be manufactured to very low thicknesses, as low as 0.030”, without compromising fire retardancy and toughness. This enables engineers and designers to decrease wall thicknesses, saving space and weight in their products. Even at these very low thicknesses, FR-106 parts easily pass challenging 60 second vertical burn testing as well as smoke and toxicity tests.
Like FR-106, PA 606-FR will easily pass a 60-second vertical burn test, and has been tested to FAR 25.853. However, the primary difference between, PA 606-FR and FR-106 is the base material. 606 is created from a Nylon 12/PA-base while FR-106 is created from a Nylon 11 base. Nylon 12/PA has a finer particle size and can build features much finer than Nylon 11-based materials.
WindForm® XT Composite material of a new generation, in which the mechanical characteristics bring this material to excellence in Rapid Manufacturing. In the world of fast production, today, you will not find any other materials comparable to this one. Opaque black colored compound polyamide and carbon based material with brilliant reflexes, WindForm® XT is characterized by stiffness and extremely high UTS, excellent surface finish, resistance to extreme wear and an optimal reproduction of detail. WindForm® XT offers an alluring, black, sparkling look, appreciable in many design applications. WindForm® XT is particularly suited to applications which require superior mechanical properties, extremely high performance, in rapid timing. Superior price.
A good competitor to Black EX, Windform LX has some of the best conductivity properties. It is also very durable and black in appearance without sacrificing surface quality.
AF Nylon has a metallic appearance and produces very robust parts. What’s most unique about AF Nylon is that it has some of the best CTE among the available nylon materials due to the added filler. Ideal for tooling applications and part building, and is well suited for parts where post machining is required. AF also has the ability to withstand tremendous PSI (up to 8,000 psi) and even more when backed with a solid material, such as epoxy.
Electrometric material with rubber-like flexibility and a range
of Shore A hardness. Infiltration adds colors and improves burst
strength.
Applications:
PA 2200 is a Nylon 12-based material that has been specially formulated to meet FDA requirements. This specialty material can be used in contact with food and human tissue.
FR 100 is 3D Systems’ challenger material to the popular FR-106. Parts produced from this material are very clean and robust, and will pass smoke & toxicity
EOS’s version of FR-rated nylon, and the first FR material to
have a Nylon 12 base. 2210 produces cleanly detailed parts
which exhibit very good properties, but is pricey in comparison
to the newer FR-rated materials. Additionally it will not pass
the 60 second vertical burn test.
The typical application for the material is the production of lost patterns for the plaster casting
Stainless Steel 17-4 is a pre-alloyed stainless steel in fine powder form. Its composition corresponds to US classification 17-4 PH. This kind of steel is characterized by having very good corrosion resistance and mechanical properties, especially excellent ductility, and is widely used in a variety of engineering applications. This material is ideal for many part-building applications such as functional metal prototypes, small series products, individualized products or spare parts. Standard processing parameters use full melting of the entire geometry with 20 μm layer thickness, but it is also possible to use skin and core building style to increase the build speed. Using standard parameters the mechanical properties are fairly uniform in all directions. Laser-sintered parts made from EOS Stainless Steel 17-4 can be welded, machined, micro shot-peened, polished and coated if required. Unexposed powder can be reused without restriction or refreshing.
Stainless Steel PH1 is a pre-alloyed stainless steel in fine powder form. Its composition corresponds to US classification 15-5PH and fulfils the requirements of AMS 5659 for Mn, Mo, Ni, Si, C, Cr and Cu. This kind of steel is characterized by having very good corrosion resistance and mechanical properties, especially in the precipitation hardened state. This type of steel is widely used in variety of medical, aerospace and other engineering applications requiring high hardness, strength and corrosion resistance.
Cobalt Chrome is a cobalt-chromemolybdenum-based superalloy powder which has been especially developed to fulfill the requirements of dental restorations which have to be veneered with dental ceramic material and has been optimized especially for processing on EOSINT M270 systems.
Titanium Ti64 is a pre-alloyed Ti6AlV4 alloy in fine powder form. This well-known light alloy is characterized by having excellent mechanical properties and corrosion resistance combined with low specific weight and biocompatibility. The ELI (extra-low interstitial) version has particularly low levels of impurities. Typical applications:
Top A high-strength, nickel-based superalloy used from cryogenic temperatures up to long-term service at extremely hot environments in the 1800F range and beyond. One of the newest of the materials suitable for manufacturing using the DMLS process, Inconel 718 has allowed users to realize rapid manufacturing as a production process, replacing using similar but not exact materials. Processing requirements includes a one-hour stress relief. Parts are able to be welded, polished, and machined.
Inco 625 is ideal for high-temperature and high-strength applications. It has good corrosion resistance in various corrosive environments, and has high tensile, creep and rupture strength. Ideal for creating parts with smooth surfaces. Maraging Steel is ideal for creating parts and especially inserts or cores used in various tooling applications, which reduce molding cycle times by serving as an improved conformal cooling application. It has excellent strength combined with high toughness. Parts made from this material can be easily machined and EDM’d; they can also be polished and post hardened to 54 HRC.
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