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We do great explanations: What is debinding What is sintering? What are the processes? What are the things you have to consider? It's all about helping them set up the part in the first place so that you know the part you get at the end is exactly what you want. So you don't have to be metallurgist to print metal parts. MC: Going to a metallic part that's debound and sintered can be quite daunting because there's this whole post-processing step that's out of your control. But what we've aimed to do is give that literature to the user and actually take a lot of the thinking out. They don't need to think too much about what it is they're doing because the guides that Andrea, working with BASF, has put together really just take them step by step through the process. LG: With that ecosystem already in place, what does the learning curve look like for someone who's maybe not thought about using metals before but already quite familiar with the process in polymers? We're going to launch but the fun part for me starts again because now we're going to go back to existing and perspective users with improvements and answers to those bottlenecks we were facing at the beginning. So that's really, for me, what makes it very interesting. The level of technology has increased dramatically in the last year. Now everything is all aligned and that's given us the motivation to continue. The interest is super strong and growing. There was a lot of interest, some successes but also a lot of constraints and we were able to focus on those pains and really streamline this workflow now. It's taken us time, we've consciously made sure that the product is right so that when we give this pack to our users, they have everything they need to go from their model to their finished part.ĪG: This product finds its origin during the development projects that we were carrying jointly with BASF and customers. And it all comes down to that relationship with BASF, our open system and really making it work well. When you think about desktop, FFF, you're thinking polymeric parts, maybe carbon-filled for strength, but this really opens up a higher level of functional components, prototyping, etc. We've worked with BASF for a long time to bring parts that were completely impossible two or three years ago.
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MC: The open platform that we have makes it such that when new technologies are ready, you can bring them to the platform. LG: We’ve seen metals come to desktop FFF systems with BASF materials already so, how does what you’re presenting at TCT 3Sixty today take this to the next level? At TCT 3Sixty, TCT Head of Content Laura Griffiths sat down with Ultimaker Product Manager Andrea Gasperini, and CTO Miguel Calvo to discuss how the company hopes to take metal printing on the desktop to the next level with its Ultimaker S5 and do it right first time. The Metal Expansion Kit, which includes a new a dedicated set of print cores, Ultimaker certified materials in collaboration with BASF Forward AM, e-learning modules, and all accessories and digital assets to access essential post-processing networks, has been developed in collaboration with industry partners to make metal 3D printing more accessible and increase the success rate for desktop users. Last week, desktop 3D printing company Ultimaker launched a new product that aims to turn the long sought-after notion of 3D printing successful metal parts on the desktop printer a reality.