Cubicure, an Austria-based manufacturer of polymer 3D printers, has showcased its latest additive manufacturing system atFormnext 2021。
The newCerion production plantis a large-format resin 3D printer based on the company’s proprietary热光刻过程。Intended to ‘scale up’ lithography-based 3D printing, the machine sports a build volume measuring 1000 x 280 x 300mm and is capable of printing entire layers in under 90 seconds, regardless of the number of components in the build.
Cubicure has geared its latest system towards the industrial market, with applications in automotive, electronics, medical technology, tooling, end-use batch production, and functional prototyping of large parts. Backed by several years of research and development, the Cerion is already in use by a number of pilot customers.
“这是平版印刷过程的工业提升过程中的重要突破，” Cubicure董事总经理兼CTO Robert Gmeiner博士解释说。“在这个印刷过程中，材料摄入量和从载体膜中的印刷聚合物层脱离都是可扩展的。”
热光刻3D打印与立方
Founded in Vienna in 2015, Cubicure set out with the aim of combining impact strength, heat deflection properties, and excellent surface qualities in 3D printed polymer parts. The firm quickly found that the这需要的树脂材料必须是高度粘性的at room temperature, but standard SLA-based 3D printing processes were unable to process such resins.
To address this issue, Cubicure began developing its own heated 3D printing process specifically for the curing of highly-viscous, high-performance chemicals. The now-patented Hot Lithography technology relies on a special heating and coating mechanism, enabling it to safely process high-viscosity resins and pastes at temperatures of up to 120 °C. The resulting printed parts can be made to beparticularly tough and temperature-resistant。
热光刻首先在公司的卡利格玛3D printer，一个小型系列生产引擎，其构建体积为200 x 100 x 285mm。
The Cerion 3D printer
为了解决大型市场空间，立方体必须完全偏离树脂桶的概念，并为CERION设计了全新的配置。现在，最新的系统具有移动印刷头和旋转的树脂载体膜 - 旨在促进可扩展光刻3D打印的创新。
借助新的设置，整个1000 x 300mm构建区域可提供50 x 50微米的光学像素精度。由于遍历打印头和精确暴露控制，据报道，印刷室不同区域之间的制造精度没有差异，这意味着每个部分都是批处理生产的制造，应该是完全相同的。借助Cuticure的新系统，热光刻过程也在100°C下进行，这意味着用户将能够利用公司的整个经过测试和测试的光聚合物材料组合。
Gmeiner adds, “Many factors of the building process such as process forces are now decoupled from part geometry and building platform occupancy. Even the width and length of the printing platform no longer have an influence on process performance. After three decades of stereolithography, finally, an industrially scalable process has been found.”
技术规格和价格
Below are the technical specifications of the Cubicure Cerion 3D printer. Readers interested in purchasing the system shouldvisit the Cubicure store page for a quote。
| 构建音量 | 1000 x 280 x 300mm |
| 曝光系统 | 动态DLP，405nm |
| 像素大小 | 50 x 50微米 |
| Layer height | 25 - 200微米 |
| 过程温度 | Up to 100°C |
| 材料注入 | Barrels, 10 – 50L |
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Featured image shows the Cubicure Cerion 3D printer. Photo via Cubicure.
