In June 2021, additive manufacturing company Stratasys unveiled two PolyJet™ 3D printers, the Stratasys J35™ Pro and the Stratasys J55™ Prime. With multimaterial capabilities, these solutions would help any designer to translate imagination into reality.
The machine manufacturer enhances the use of these solutions with a new water-soluble support material. Named WSS™150, it facilitates the removal of the support material from prints; a hands-free solution that only requires tap water or a conventional dishwasher with no additional chemicals.
This solution has also been designed with high-volume production in mind, giving operators the possibility to clean simultaneously multiple prints rather than handling and post-processing each print individually.
“The ability to easily remove support material is especially crucial when engineers design complex parts with intricate areas, or when architects create designs with thin, small-scale and easily breakable elements that would require time-intense manual post-processing”, said Oren Zoran, Product Group Director for Stratasys.
“We are very impressed with the parts we printed and cleaned using WSS150,” said Christoph Dollbacher of S3D-Repro GmbH, a 3D printing service provider located at St. Polten, Austria. “As 3D part service provider, removing the support from many printed parts typically requires hours of manual work. While beta testing the new support we received a production order for 1,000 parts, using WSS150 we were able to simultaneously clean the large quantity of parts with practically no effort and we were able to fulfil the order on schedule.”
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