3D Systems launches 2014 products

NEWLY available product line of printing technologies from 3D Systems drives productivity, enhances quality and reduces cost for capabilities across the manufacturer's floor and engineer's desktop.

3D Systems (3DS) is a leading provider of 3D content-to-print solutions including 3D printers, print materials and cloud sourced on-demand custom parts for professionals and consumers alike with materials including plastics, metals, ceramics and edibles. The company also provides integrated software and hardware tools including scan to CAD and inspection. Its expertly integrated solutions replace and complement traditional methods and reduce the time and cost of designing new products by printing real parts directly from digital input. These solutions are used to rapidly design, create, communicate, prototype or produce real parts, empowering customers to manufacture the future.

Key components of 3DPRINTING 2.0 – defined by exponential 3D printing speed, size and capacity along with advanced performance materials and scan-to-design and inspection tools – serve industrial users with diverse materials capabilities, including direct metal, full-color plastic, multi-material and production grade SLS. These include:

Industrial-grade direct metal printing The latest evolution in industrial-grade metal printing, ProXTM Direct Metal Sintering (DMS), is specifically designed for the most demanding manufacturing floor conditions, delivering high-density, precise 3D-printed parts in a wide range of metals including steel, titanium alloys and aluminium. The ProX series of direct metal printers is now shipping.

Largest format production platform The recently released ProXTM 950 wide-format SLA 3D printer is the largest-format, highest-speed, greatest accuracy and greenest 3D printer available today, It is equipped with 3DS' newest PolyRay? print head technology that can manufacture real parts at up to 10 times the speed of other 3D printers, drawing on the widest choice of proven high-performance engineered materials that are qualified for the most demanding aerospace, medical device and industrial use-cases.

High-volume functional parts manufacturing The ProXTM 500 SLS (selective laser sintering) 3D printer is designed for the manufacturing floor, where it produces ready-to-use functional parts and complete assemblies for a variety of aerospace, automotive, patient specific medical devices, fashion products and mobile devices use cases. The compact the ProX 500 printer was developed in tandem with the revolutionary new DuraForm? ProX material to produce smoother wall surfaces and injection molding-like part quality.

Full-color plastic and multi-materials – The ProJet? 4500 3D printer is the first and only continuous tone full-color plastic 3D printer available, while the ProJet? 5500X simultaneously prints and fuses together flexible and rigid material composites layer by layer.

Integrated scan-to-design and inspection tools and print drivers The recently announced Geomagic? Capture, the industry's first integrated scan-based design and inspection solution, along with its industry-leading engineering inspection software, Geomagic Verify and Geomagic Control, enabling users to inspect 3D-printed parts faster and more accurately than ever.

Geomagic Capture enables designers and engineers to incorporate real-world objects into CAD as a seamless part of their engineering workflow

"The robust design-to-manufacturing solutions we are showcasing at this year's AMUG conference will help attendees understand the latest advances in additive manufacturing and the enormous potential use cases ahead," said Cathy Lewis, CMO, 3DS. "The range of materials, speed, capacity and volume at the heart of our 3DPRINTING 2.0 offering brings new levels of performance and possibilities to additive manufacturing."Air Force High