Stainless steel gear arbor printed with the new M4 Metal Multirap

Multec presents the new metal printer M4 Metal in action. A gear holder/arbor for series production at ZF Passau is printed. BASF Ultrafuse 316L is used for printing on Multec's new metal combi printer: M4 Metal, which will be available from Multec from March. In addition to metal, this printer can process plastic combinations with up to 4 plastics. More on this:

https://www.multec.de/index.php/3ddrucker/multirap-m4-metal

Multec prints and donates 100 protective masks and door openers for the Friedrichshafen Clinic (Medicine Campus Bodensee).

Our printer park is currently working 24/7 on the production of protective shields and door openers for doctors and public institutions.

We would like to thank Prof. Dr. medical Volker Wenzel and Dr. medical Pascal Schepat for the great advice and cooperation on how we can best support the clinic.

A big thank you to the entire team at our filament partner, Herz GmbH, and Mr. Franz-Josef Herz personally, who stopped their production at short notice especially for this purpose and switched to our PLA-HT, which is required for this purpose, in a signal color, and donated.

https://www.herz-gmbh.com/fillament.html

We would also like to thank Josef Prusa, Hungary, who developed and excellently optimized the design of the protective masks in cooperation with medical professionals.

https://www.prusaprinters.org/

We are very pleased that we can help here directly and together with our great partners, our printer farm runs day and night for this series production.

The biggest thanks go to all doctors and employees of the clinics, practices and health facilities, who are so helpful and with great commitment for all of us in Corona times.

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Metal printing with support material using an axle as an example

Using the M4 Metal, an axis is used to demonstrate how to print with support material. These supports also remain on the component during debinding/sintering.

Printing was done with BASF Ultrafuse 316L

XXL 3DBenchy Boat in high-speed process on Multirap M800 from Multec

The video shows a time lapse of the printing of the XXL 3DBenchy Boat using the high-speed process. This was enlarged to 600 x 310 x 480 mm and could be printed with the high-speed print head in just 24 hours.

With conventional jets, the boat would have taken 95 hours by comparison.

Thanks to the high-speed print head, a time saving of 75% is possible. The high-speed print head will be available as an option for our Multirap M500 and M800 printers from mid-2020.

Do you have any questions about your use case? We look forward to your call! Tel. 0049-7558-949 999 0

Tires with rims - airless principle - multi-material printing

The tire was printed with Multec PLA Soft 120 on a Multirap M500 and served as a successful prototype to demonstrate the ease and speed of 3D printing flexible single and serial parts. What is new about this tire is the combination of rim, tire and support material in one printing process, without any cleaning runs, post-processing or gluing work.

With the airless principle, the “air” that is a necessary part of the tire is replaced by a special honeycomb structure. Based on the same principle, other components made of high-strength and flexible materials can also be produced in one printing process.

Do you have any questions about your use case? We look forward to your call! Tel. 0049-7558-949 999 0

Large-volume component funnel printed for Siemens with high-speed print head

Our development of the high-performance, extremely fast-printing new nozzle shows a reduction in printing time to approx. 1/4 of the previous printing time in the case of a funnel for a powder printing system.

Here, a 70 cm high component is printed in around 10 hours, compared to a smaller component with conventional nozzles in over 30 hours.

Since the Multec print head has up to 4 nozzles, the high-flow hotend can of course also produce short print times with good surfaces in combination with fine nozzles.

A customer print part from Siemens will be printed, which will be exhibited at the Formnext trade fair.

Extremely fast high-flow print head Multirap M800 - rear wing racing

The video shows a timelapse of a racing rear wing printed with the Multirap M800 high flow print head.

Thanks to the high-speed print head, a time saving of 75% is possible.

Printing time for the 80cm high half of the rear wing was approx. 11 hours, with conventional hotends it was 42 hours.

The high-speed print head will be available as an option for our Multirap M500 and M800 printers from mid-2020.

Do you have any questions about your use case? We look forward to your call! Tel. 0049-7558-949 999 0

New tutorial multi-material printing with Simplify3D

In this video, Multec shows how 4-fold 3D printing is configured in Simplify3D and how GCodes are generated. A robot gripper with a rubber-like gripping surface, water-soluble support material and a colored logo is printed.

Do you have applications for plastic combinations, rubber, electrically conductive, plain bearing material, abrasion resistance, etc.?

Would you like training, analysis of your business case, amortization calculations for your use cases?

Contact Multec: Tel. 0049-7558-949 999 0, we will be happy to call you back.

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Fender flares - from 3D scan to functional part

Using the example of an individually adapted fender flare, Multec will show you step by step the procedure from the 3D scan to the 3D printed form and the laminated functional part.
Scanned with Scan-in-a-box FX

Printed with Multirap M800 4x print head

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Fully automatic filament change using the example of the A320 with a wingspan of 1.40m

printing function with Multirap

With the Multirap M500 and M800, a print of up to 12 kilos and thus several days can be printed without user intervention and without a break thanks to the continuous printing function.

This saves cost and time - just print through over the weekend...

Even when half-full spools are used up - no matter how much material is left - the Multirap recognizes the empty spool and automatically switches to the next spool.

Our Airbus A320 was printed like this (see video).

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New features in version Simplify3D 4.x

Video instructions for model and process handling in Simplify3D:

• model import
• model handling
• Profile import

Optimizing thin-walled parts

The tips given here show possible weak points in thin-walled printed parts and explain the background to this.
This enables you to optimize thin-walled parts constructively, in the STL and above all in the print settings in such a way that there are no gaps, the strength is as high as possible and a good visual result is achieved.

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