UK-based 3D printer resellerEVO 3Dhas announced a significant expansion of itsEVO TECH 3D Robot Printing Cellrange.
EVO 3D的Pellet 3D打印软件包于去年推出，允许用户部署各种机器人，挤出机和软件组合，以大规模实现高吞吐量和生产。跟进使用机器人制造商制造的初始产品KUKA, robotic 3D printing software developerAi Build和加拿大OEMDyze Design, the firm has now announced new partners:ADAXIS和Rev3rd。
According to EVO 3D, the French-Swedish robotics software company and large-scale 3D printing start-up “have been carefully selected” to add their products to its already-robust EVO TECH 3D Robot Printing Cell lineup.
EVO 3D’s additive manufacturing portfolio
EVO 3D的目的是通过为客户的需求提供完整的360解决方案，使自己与人群区分开。该公司的目标是通过向客户提供公正的建议和技术支持来实现这一目标，它说的是确保他们完全意识到项目中购买的潜力至关重要。
So far, EVO 3D’s approach has seen it attract customers such as the苏格兰国家制造学院, theUniversity of Cambridge, and theLondon Electric Vehicle Company。他们之间,这些组织利用the firm’s services to address applications varying from research to the industrial and automotive sectors.
自2021年推出以来EVO 3D损失了25万英镑towards its expansion, and it was later announced thatEVO3D将加入进化销售和营销, in a move designed to strengthen its 3D printing offering, particularly within the automotive, aerospace, industrial, and prototyping markets.
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一般而言，Pellet 3D打印比基于细丝的替代方案具有许多优势，因为它们可以解锁更高的吞吐量并访问更广泛的聚合物以及降低的材料成本。实际上，根据所使用的数量，颗粒的价格比同一塑料制成的细丝小65-90％。
Aiming to provide its customers with greater access to these benefits, EVO 3D launched itsrobotic pellet 3D printing servicein April 2022. Behind this offering was a suite of systems developed alongside KUKA, Ai Build and Dyze, with large powder-coated build plates of varying sizes, upon which pelletized feedstock could be extruded at high speed.
At launch, it was said that the large heat zones of the machines’ pellet extruders, provided them with a throughput almost 100 times greater than that of average Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D printers. Through the combination of different pellets, and the addition of dyes, additives, and reinforcement fibers, customers were also able to create custom composite plastics, including those with eco-friendly recycled content.
A growing robotic 3D printing offering
Since the launch of its initial robotic pellet 3D printing packages, EVO 3D has been hard at work, both building out its business and putting its offering into action. As well as moving into a new facility, complete with a large additive manufacturing demonstration suite in Exeter, the firm has begun selling the Long Arm Pulsar edition of its robotic system, with its first customer being theChemnitz University of Technology。
为了在其自动颗粒3D打印产品上构建，EVO 3D还与Adaxis和Rev3rd合作。前者最著名的是软件的开发人员，它使机器人用户更容易配置其3D打印的机械。与Kuka等品牌兼容，ABB和Fanuc, the company’sAdaOne platformoffers simulation and multi-axis path planning functionalities.
Rev3rd, on the other hand, specializes in the 3D printing of large-scale structures from recycled materials. In its efforts to optimize this process, the firm has developed its own 3D printers, which use industrial CNC motion control systems and servo drives on all axes, to increase their speed and reliability. REV3RD also markets high-throughput pellet extruders with outputs as high as 40 kilos per hour.
Working with its new partners, EVO 3D has been able to expand its robotic pellet 3D printing offering. At launch, the firm brought its Small but Mighty, Long Arm and Long Arm Heavy products to market. However, these have now been superseded by its Long Arm Pulsar, Extended Arm REV3RD, Strong Arm REV3RD, and Sliding Arm CEAD editions.
Fitted with Dyze, REV3RD andCEADextruders respectively, each of these features a different capacity and extrusion rate, allowing customers to choose that which suits their project needs. For instance, the 1,000mm3长臂脉冲星版可以以每小时2.5公斤的速度挤压材料，但是强大的ARM REV3RD版本可能会达到每小时25公斤的更高速度。
The systems are available at prices ranging from £75,000 to £190,000. For more information or a more precise quote, prospective customers cancontact EVO 3D directly here。
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Featured image shows EVO 3D’s EVO TECH 3D Robot Printing Cell. Photo via EVO 3D.
