Supporting engineering-grade filament has been troublesome with no assist materials devoted to increased temperature 3D printing. Ionic goals to resolve that.
Posted on September 4, 2019
by
Alec Richter
Ionic Hybrid Help Materials has been formulated to be the best alternative for supporting purposeful, temperature resistant 3D printing supplies. Efficiently printing high-quality, intricate purposeful components has all the time relied on assist scaffolding. Historically 3D printing utilizing the identical materials as your completed half works, however there are limits to its use; internal, laborious to achieve cavities or clean undersides are practically unimaginable to work with. It’s now commonplace to make use of a second extruder to make the most of a assist materials that may be dissolved away or trivially faraway from these inside surfaces can obtain the specified end to your 3D printed components.
Increased Temperature 3D Printing
The trade normal for supporting PLA 3D prints has been PVA; their related printing temperatures means it sticks to PLA, it prints simply, and while you want it to it dissolves away cleanly utilizing simply water, however the identical couldn’t be mentioned for high-temperature supplies. Ionic Hybrid Help has been developed to be paired with nylon, together with NylonX and NylonG, resulting from its increased printing temperature, so helps stick higher to the printed components and don’t warp or soften away like different assist supplies would possibly. Different supplies with the same printing temperature like ABS, PETG, RYNO, or TPU all print exceptionally effectively with it as effectively.
Increased temperature printing means suitable with NylonX and NylonG.
Dissolvable
Because of the chemical make-up of Ionic, after it’s printed it should fully dissolve in common faucet water. The place different supplies might require a chemical tub and cautious disposal, Ionic can safely be disposed of down the drain. With out the flexibility to dissolve helps, some components can have inner cavities that may’t have their helps cleaned out or depend on the 3D print popping out okay at finest.
Ionic helps may be dissolved in faucet water
Breakaway
Ionic is a “Hybrid” Help Materials which means not solely is Ionic dissolvable, nevertheless it additionally behaves as a breakaway assist materials – it may be eliminated out of your printed half with regular instruments too. Earlier than you got down to soak your completed 3D printed half to dissolve the helps, break off most of it to chop down on the post-processing time of your 3D prints. Then you possibly can dissolve the remainder within the laborious to achieve locations and wherever it’s pressed towards the printed half, to keep away from damaging it with removing instruments.
Ionic Hybrid Help Materials – dissolvable and breakaway.
Actual World Functions
Most will wish to use Ionic Help Materials particularly with a twin extrusion setup and if 3D fashions have steep overhangs or inner geometry that may’t be reached by instruments. Manifolds, brackets, jigs, fixtures, actually something that must be 3D printed in a purposeful materials and desires the assist to again it up is what Ionic is designed for.
Actual world makes use of contains so many alternative objects it is troublesome to listing them – issues like jigs and fixtures with steep overhangs are excellent for Ionic.
{Hardware} Issues
Whereas Ionic doesn’t require you to have an all-metal hotend, if the fabric you’re utilizing as your construct materials does, then it is suggested to make use of one for Ionic as effectively; for finest outcomes, Ionic ought to be printed as near the identical temperature because the construct materials, whereas nonetheless inside the printing temperature vary. The temperature vary for Ionic is between 230°C and 250°C for the nozzle, and 60°C to 90°C for the print mattress. That is what permits it to be paired with many alternative filaments, for the reason that print settings are very accommodating for lots of various supplies. Ionic dissolves in water, which suggests it’s additionally very hygroscopic, in order you’d do with any filament that drinks up water from the air like nylon or PVA, you should definitely dry it earlier than you begin printing utilizing a vacuum oven or alternatively use a PrintDry Filament Drying System to dry it out and hold it dry whilst you’re 3D printing.
Dry Ionic filament earlier than use for finest outcomes.
Publish Processing
To make publish processing a bit simpler, begin by breaking off any of the simple to achieve or massive sections of helps to chop down on time wanted to dissolve all the pieces. The best removing course of has one thing to agitate a shower of heat faucet water, utilizing a pump to flow into the water, nevertheless it’s not required; it simply speeds issues up. Use a container that’s considerably bigger than the 3D printed half; the water will get saturated over time and desires altering to proceed dissolving helps, for finest outcomes use a big container to stop altering the water too usually.
Use a container considerably bigger than your supported half to stop the water from getting oversaturated too rapidly.
Supporting superior, high-temperature supplies is a breeze with the assistance of Ionic Hybrid Help Materials. Ionic is on the market in each 1.75mm and 2.85mm diameters so you will get printing regardless of the twin extrusion setup you’ve gotten. To order your spool immediately, try the gathering: right here.
