FDM 3D Printer
FDM – Ultimaker S5
Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) represents an additive manufacturing process which consists in the creation of a three-dimensional object by consecutive deposition of a melted thermoplastic filament.
In our lab we are provided with the Ultimaker S5 which is equipped with a double extruder for multi-material printing of both commercial and customized filaments
Technical data:
- Double extruder with interchangeable nozzles
- Building area: XYZ: 330 x 240 x 300 mm
- Filament diameter: 2.85 mm
- Vertical resolution: 0.25 mm nozzle: 150 – 60 micron; 0.8 mm nozzle: 600 – 20 micron; 0.4 mm nozzle 200 – 20 micron
- Axes accuracy: XYZ: 6.9, 6.9, 2.5 micron
- Print speed: <24 mm3/s
- Plate temperature range: 20 – 140 °C
- Available noozles: 0.25 mm, 0.4 mm, 0.8 mm
- Nozzle temperature range: 180 – 280 °C
- Nozzle heating time: <2 min
- Plate heating time: <4 min
Ultimaker available materials:
- PLA
- Tough PLA
- Nylon
- ABS
- CPE
- PC
- TPU 95A
- PP
- PVA
- Breakaway
- Works also with third-party materials
The printer can work with models in the formats:
- STL
- OBJ
- X3D
- 3MF
- BMP
- GIF
- JPG
- PNG
Some components built with the printer, with examples of parts integrations:
We are currently testing the performance of polylactic acid (PLA) carbon based composites to obtain electrical contact and sensing features.