Stratasys has launched a brand new look Fortus 450mc to mark a decade of certainly one of its most enduring 3D printers.
The mid-level FDM system has been upgraded with a darkish colourway and new options together with hardened parts to help supplies like Nylon 12CF and Antero alongside bundled licenses for all supplies within the Fortus 450mc portfolio and one-year of GrabCAD Streamline Professional and GrabCAD Print Professional software program. Stratasys says extra upgrades, together with help for a brand new glass-filled, fire-resistant materials and sooner construct capabilities for Nylon 12CF, shall be aded later this yr.
“An unimaginable testomony to the system’s reliability is that 10 years after set up, 92% of Fortus 450mc printers are nonetheless producing elements,” mentioned Wealthy Garrity, Chief Enterprise Unit Officer at Stratasys. “With this new factory-floor-ready tooling resolution, we’ve taken the whole lot our prospects already belief and enhanced it to ship even better manufacturing worth. It’s one other instance of how Stratasys continues to construct on our basis of success and lead innovation within the FDM area.”
Describing this newest technology as ‘factory-floor-ready’, Stratasys says the machine has been designed for sturdiness, precision, and repeatability. Over the past 10 years, the Fortus 450mc has been put to work 3D printing functions throughout aerospace, automotive, and basic industrial sectors for jigs, fixtures, manufacturing tooling, and end-use elements. Stratasys says latest materials launches, particularly PC-FR, VICTREX AM 200 (PEEK for oil and fuel), and PC-ESD, at the moment are additionally opening up new software potential.
The launch follows information this week that Stratasys had opted to amass choose 3D printing property from Nexa3D. The corporate hasn’t but shared specifics on which applied sciences have been acquired however mentioned it believes it now has ‘the biggest and most strong providing of AM polymer options within the business’.