在过去的几年中，这家总部位于比利时的公司i.materialisehas established themselves as one of the leading 3D printing service providers around. Since 2014, they’ve expanded from亚洲to the阿拉伯联合酋长国, and have also introduced a plethora of materials for their customers, including a多种金属and even激光与木材复合材料。Now, i.materialise is focusing in on providing extremely detailed prints, announcing their latest material,流畅的细节树脂。该材料尤其针对规模建模者，他们通常会创建精细详细的3D设计，大多数印刷材料无法真正唤起。
With the Smooth Detail Resin, however, i.materialise customers will be able to print their designs at a high resolution of 50 microns, while the surface finish is uniquely smooth. Though the new resin only comes in gray, i.materialise claims that it allows for much higher detail and is also easily paintable. The material begins in the form of a hardened liquid resin, and uses DLP technology—which is a 3D printing process similar to stereolithography— to create these finely detailed layers and a smooth finish. The DLP process utilizes a light source to solidify the resin into the selected 3D design, which generally creates a much higher quality product than FDM printing can provide.
The Smooth Detail Resin is currently available as a ‘trial’ material on the i.materialise storefront, and can be ordered with or without the necessary supports attached. i.materialise offers to manually remove the support for the customer, but also recognizes that many designers wish to remove supports with their own tools or sanding methods. Though the finely detailed resin is perfect for printing small-scale models, customers can print in sizes of up to 260 x 160 x 193 mm, which is quite sizable for a material engineered for detailed prints. Another great feature of the resin is that it only requires a minimum wall thickness of .4 mm, which is 60% less than most other plastic materials.
尽管新树脂似乎很有希望，而且看起来很棒，但其中有一些怀疑论者I.Materialise博客评论部分looking for even higher resolution. Regardless of their thoughts, i.materialise has a good reason to be excited about their newest material, and many scale modelers are sure to be too. The material is ideal for miniature statues, scale models, and artifacts that require high detail and a smooth finish. If you’re interested in uploading a design and printing it in the Smooth Detail Resin, take a look at the物质信息和设计指南在I.Materialise网站上。任何新材料的订单都将在大约12个工作日内发货。
