Currently over 17 Liqcreate resins are commercially available. These high-end photopolymer resins are used in a wide range of industries including prototyping, industrial, entertainment, consumer goods, healthcare, dental, aerospace and automotive. Even though a lot of resins are available, we sometimes get questions about resins with slightly different properties, printing behavior or colors. For bigger [...]
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With the adoption of Liqcreate resins in the consumer goods, automotive and aerospace sector, more data on UV-aging, chemical compatibility and thermal aging is requested. Previously UV-aging and chemical compatibility was tested. The results of UV-aging of Liqcreate 3D-printing resins can be found here. Chemical resistance and chemical compatibility of Liqcreate 3D-printing resins is published [...]
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The Longer Orange 4K LCD/MSLA 3D-printer is an open printer with a 405 nm light source, compatible with 3rd party resins. The settings for Liqcreate resins are not yet available. Looking at the 3D-printer specifications, most resins could also work on this printer. A good starting step in settings are the settings published for the [...]
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Researchers and students at the University of Applied Science investigated the UV aging and UV stability of 3D-printed Liqcreate resins. The aim of this research was determining the effect of UV light on Liqcreate resins in the long-term. The analysed resins in this research were the Tough-X, Flexible-X and Strong-X resins. The resins were aged [...]
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Clear and transparent 3D prints are ideal for creating clear prototype parts, showing internal cavities and details. Applications like LED housings, prototyping lens parts and microfluidic devices are a few examples of application 3D-printed with clear resin. Learn how propmaker Campman Animatronics used Clear Impact to 3D-print a transparant transverse flute for the Dutch Queens [...]
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A 3d-printed plastic part can be exposed to different environments in its life-cycle. For some applications, the part is exposed to cold or even freezing conditions. For engineers it is important to know how the 3d-printed material behaves in these conditions when selecting the right material for the application. Recently a company active in cooling [...]
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In the field of resin 3D-printing there are two mainstream resin technologies. One based on acrylates and the other one based on epoxides. In large scale SLA 3D-printers like from UnionTech, 3DSystems, Raplas, RPS, EnvisionTEC and others, epoxy resins are the standard. These materials cure by a mechanism of ring-opening-polymerization which limits the shrinkage which [...]
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The Technical University of Darmstadt contacted Liqcreate in 2020 with a question regarding compression strength of 3D-printed resin. The Institute for Printing Machines and Printing Processes at TU Darmstadt was looking into 3D-printed equipment for regular printing processes. The goal was to find a hard, abrasion resistant resin with high compression strength to be used [...]
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Back in August 2018, Clare Scott from 3Dprint.com wrote an article about 3D-printing affordable medical model. This article was inspired by a paper entitled “Workflow for 3D printing of medical models – phases, timeline and costs,” which was published in “Le Courrier de la Transplantation - Vol. 18 - n 1-2 - June 2018” by [...]
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Prusa 3D is well known in the FDM market, manufacturing FDM printers and filaments in its facility in Czech Republic. It was founded in 2012 by Josef Prusa, focused on open-source 3D-printing technology. During the years after founding, Prusa became one of the market leaders in consumer FDM 3D-printing. Just in 2018, Prusa Research has [...]
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