Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) production 3D printers from 3D Systems, takes SLS toughness, part quality and manufacturing economics to the next level. Designed for smooth integration with your manufacturing workflow, SLS printers produce parts for a variety of end-use and functional prototyping applications in aerospace, medical, industrial design and more. Use SLS printers and DuraForm plastic materials to produce parts with superior mechanical properties, resolution, surface finish and edge definition compared to other processes. Ensure repeatable, consistent, tool-free manufacturing and produce durable functional parts faster with this mid-size production 3D printer.
Here you can find links to the material guides for the available SLS materials.
DuraForm ProX GF Material Guide
DuraForm ProX HST Material Guide
DuraForm ProX PA Material Guide
Best Practices
For more information on how to improve your parts, learn about other materials, advanced finishing and orientation you can visit the SLS Best Practices site here: SLS Best Practices
Quick Start Guide
We have put together a Quick Start Guide to help you get up and running with using 3D Sprint as quickly and easily as possible. You can find the guide here: 3D Sprint - Quick Start Guide - SLS
SLS Workflows
As 3D Sprint is able to be installed on a Remote PC as well as the Printer PC for some SLS printers. There are several different workflows available to create and send jobs to the printer. Please see the following page for more information on these workflows: SLS Workflows
Cage
SLS Manufacturing is excellent for manufacturing lots of small, complex plastic parts, such as electrical connectors and clips. Use the Cage command to place a structure around small parts to prevent them getting lost during break out and post processing.
Scale and Offset
3D Sprint provides tools for scaling and offsetting parts with simple and advanced options: simple changes where dimensions are multiplied by constants, and more complex ones where dimensions can vary non-linearly and use tables of values or formulas.
You will typically want to increase the size of a part slightly to compensate for shrinkage during the SLS process; this is called scaling the part. You can apply a different scale factor in each direction (X, Y, and Z). To scale parts, select the Scale & Offset option from the Print tab.
You can determine scale values by measuring parts and hand-calculating their variance from the desired dimensions, or use 3D Sprints Scale & Offset Wizard to perform the calculations.
Part Profile Editor
Part Profiles can be applied separately to parts using the Part Profile Editor command. By default, the Part Profile assigned is defined during the configuration of printer and materials when setting up printer in the Printer command. However the Part Profile Editor allows you to create a new profile or modify an existing one to assign specific part build parameters to parts to define the behavior of the build at various Z levels during the print. Part Profiles can be assigned to selected parts of a print build. You set part parameters and create part profiles with the Part Profile Editor, launched from the Print tab.
Please see How Parameters Work for a more general overview of parameters.
Build Profile Editor
Build Profiles can be applied to an entire build using the Build Profile Editor command. By default, the Build Profile assigned is defined during the configuration of printer and materials when setting up printer in the Printer command. However the Build Profile Editor allows you to create a new profile or modify an existing one to assign specific build parameters to a job, it will define the behavior of the build at various Z levels during the print. Build Profiles are assigned to an entire print build.
Please see How Parameters Work for a more general overview of parameters.
Build Style Presets
It is possible to create, import or export a custom preset for each configuration of Printer, Material and Print Mode that include selected presets for Scale and Offset, Part Profile and Build Profile. For more information on how to create and use these presets, please see Printer.
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