Stratasys Adds Flexible Colour 3D Printer Digital Materials - 09 Jun 2014

Stratasys’ extend range of flexible and rigid material options for the Objet500 Connex3 Colour Multi-material 3D Printer. With these new colour palettes, Stratasys is continuing to expand your ability to improve the look, feel and functionality of your 3D printed parts.

Hundreds of new rubber-like colour materials and many rigid ones combined with existing options, allow virtually unlimited combinations of flexible, rigid, and translucent-to-opaque colours in a single print run. The new colour options are ideal for creating medical, automotive and consumer product components in popular Gray along with vibrant colour components that offer true-to-life aesthetics. This allows the production of complete products without manual assembly. And it allows product designers to validate designs and make decisions further in advance of tooling to improve designs and reduce tooling costs, reduce development cycle and time-to-market.

Ranging from transparent to opaque and spanning a wide selection of Shore A values, the new flexible color options comprise six rubber material palettes. These consist of:

• Three flexible 72-colour palettes, composed of rubber-like (TangoPlus) and combinations of rigid opaque (VeroCyan, VeroMagenta and VeroYellow) materials.
• Three flexible 68-colour palettes, built with rubber-like (TangoBlackPlus) and combinations of the same rigid opaque (Vero) colours.

Further strengthening its rigid colour range, Stratasys has also increased the number of gray and subtle colour options with:

• Three 45-colour rigid gray palettes, each of which combines rigid VeroWhite and VeroBlack with colours.
• One 45-hue gray palette, with varying levels of translucency, and which includes a reflective luster for the production of sleek, high-quality parts for products such as consumer electronics.

The new flexible colour options are available immediately to Objet500 Connex3 Colour Multi-material 3D Printer owners through a free software update.