The post-processing of objects produced with FDM 3D printers to an industrial standard is a complex process. The US company Omegasonics has now announced new technologies for faster and more precise cleaning of 3D objects. With the announced ultrasonic cleaning technologies, post-processing should be possible much faster and the customer should receive his printed objects much earlier.
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The enterprise Omegasonics from Simi Valley in California got loud an article announced an updated ultrasonic cleaning technology. With this technology, the company wants to enable faster, more precise 3D printed objects. The 3D printer is supposed to bring even faster results. With the PolySmoother, we recently presented a 3D printing post-processing solution that achieved 45 times its campaign goal on Kickstarter and costs only 100 euros.
The post-processing
3D-printed objects must be precisely cleaned and prepared freshly from the 3D printer. The labor-intensive process requires heated rotating discs to clean the parts. For larger parts, this can take up to 24 hours.
According to the manufacturer, the ultrasonic cleaning technology from Omegasonics should make the process up to 24 hours shorter. Customers receive their 3D printed object faster and without any loss of quality. This is supposed to be achieved through a cleaning process that can remove support structure materials from ABS, polycarbonate, nylon 12 and PCABS.
Optimize resources
With this new technology, the customer is also able to concentrate on the next step in the manufacturing process. Ultrasound technology requires only a fraction of the previous labor costs and allows the user to allocate resources elsewhere.
With further new product offerings in addition to the updated ultrasound technology, the company wants to remove soluble carrier materials from FDM-manufactured parts and also significantly reduce cleaning times here. This is also intended to reduce deformations. According to Omegasonics, a thermal dyeing station for thermoplastic 3D products should shorten dyeing times.
Armen Boyajyan, Product Finishing Manager von Stratasys Direct Manufacturing, finds:
“It used to take a full day to manually remove the substrate from some 3D parts. Now we’ll just put the parts in the ultrasonic cleaner and do something else while they’re cleaning. After three hours we have nice, clean parts. “
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