MEDSONIC LTD produces rapid prototyping (or digital manufacturing) models made
out of ABS. All you need is to send your computer drawing in STL format and based on
the size of your drawing (in cm3) we can prepare a quotation for you. The prototypes are
created using a STRATASYS 3D printer (FORTUS family).
Send your drawing at:
cdamianou@cytanet.com.cy
Advantages of 3-D printers
3D printers and 3D production systems help accelerate your design process and time-tomarket. They let you produce durable, functional 3D models or production parts right
from your office, lab, or manufacturing floor.
Reduce Cost-of-Change: Correct design errors early before tooling, while the cost-ofchange is lowest.
Improve Design: Quickly and inexpensively produce multiple iterations to optimize your
design.
Facilitate Communication: A physical part efficiently communicates a design with tool
makers, sales, marketing, and customers.
Maintain Confidentiality: In-house production eliminates the exchange of confidential
designs, allowing control of the design.
Functionally Test: Real engineering thermoplastics allows production of durable,
functional parts that can be tested.
FDM Technology
All Stratasys systems employ FDM (fused deposition modeling) technology, the industry
leading additive fabrication technology, and the only one that uses production grade
thermoplastics to produce stable, durable, and accurate parts.
Competitive processes only simulate thermoplastics, using powders and resins. Versatile
thermoplastic parts can be sanded, painted, drilled, coated, sealed, bolted, and drilled.
Easiest to Use of Any Additive Fabrication Technology
No special set up is required for Stratasys 3D printers and 3D production systems. Both
systems come with hardware and software that make it easy to convert CAD files into 3D
parts in three easy steps.
1. Pre-Process
From 3D CAD data, pre-processing software automatically slices, calculates support
structures, and creates tool paths that are optimized for the 3D Printer or Production
System.
2. Produce Part
Parts are built layer by layer in an additive process. Dual extrusion heads precisely lay
down thermoplastic build and support material to create each layer.
3. Remove Supports
Temporary support structures are easily removed. Soluble support material automatically
dissolves in a water-based solution. Break-away supports simply snap off by hand.
Properties of ABS M30i
Heat Deflection (HDT) @ 66 psi, 0.125" unannealed
Heat Deflection (HDT) @ 264 psi, 0.125" unannealed
Vicat Softening Temp. (Rate B/50)
Coeffi cient of Thermal Expansion (fl ow)
Coeffi cient of Thermal Expansion (xfl ow)
Glass Transition (Tg)
Tensile Strength (Type 1, 0.125”, 0.2”/min)
Tensile Modulus (Type 1, 0.125”, 0.2”/min)
Tensile Elongation (Type 1, 0.125”, 0.2”/min)
Flexural Strength (Method 1, 0.05”/min)
Flexural Modulus (Method 1, 0.05”/min)
IZOD Impact, notched (Method A, 23°C)
96°C
82°C
99°C
8.82E-05 mm/mm/°C
8.46E-05 mm/mm/°C
108°C
36 MPa
2,413 MPa
4%
61 MPa
2,317 MPa
139 J/m
ABS-M30 thermoplastic (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene):
25-70 percent stronger than standard ABS material
Greater tensile, impact, and flexural strength
Layer bonding is significantly stronger for a more durable part
Versatile Material: Good for form, fit and moderate functional applications
ABS-M30i thermoplastic (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene):
Biocompatible (ISO 10993 certified) material
Ideal material for medical, pharmaceutical and food packaging industries
Sterilizable using gamma radiation or ethylene oxide (EtO) sterilization methods
Real Stable Thermoplastics
Fortus systems produce parts in real thermoplastic materials that are tough enough for
prototyping, functional testing or producing manufacturing tools and end-use parts. Real
production thermoplastics are stable and have no appreciable warpage, shrinkage, or
moisture absorption, like the resins and powders in some competitive processes. Parts
produced from a Fortus system are the most, accurate and durable.
Real Accuracy
Because thermoplastics are environmentally stable, part accuracy (or tolerance) doesn’t
change with ambient conditions or time. This enables FDM parts to be among the most
dimensionally accurate.
FORTUS 400mc System Overview
Engineered to provide accurate, repeatable performance. This workhorse uses a variety of
production-grade thermoplastics. Customization allows you to select material packages
and build-envelope sizes so you pay only for the capabilities you need.
Key Features
Parts are produced within an accuracy of +/- .005 inch or +/- .0015 inch per inch
whichever is greater (+/- .127 mm or +/- .0015 mm per mm whichever is greater).
Additional capacity for longer unattended builds
- Standard capacity
- 14 x 10 x 10 inch (355 x 254 x 254 mm)
- One build material bay
- One support material bay
Highest resolution and feature detail capability
Multiple throughput (build speed) options:
- 0.013 and 0.010 inch (0.330 and 0.254 mm) for faster throughput
- 0.007 inch (0.178 mm) for fine feature detail and surface finish
- 0.005 inch (0.127 mm) for highest feature detail and best surface finish
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Parts for Functional Prototyping
Prototypes produced by Fortus systems are more accurate and durable than can be
produced via other additive fabrication processes. They can be used throughout the
design and functional testing process. These prototypes speed your time to market, drive
down costs, and unleash you from the limitations of lesser grade systems. Make multiple
design iterations to optimize design and find design errors early in the design process
when changes are the least expensive to make. Read r
Functional Prototyping Overview
From CAD files Fortus 3D Production Systems produce thermoplastic parts that are used
for conceptual prototyping, design verification and functional testing. The benefits of
using an additive fabrication system for prototyping include streamlining the
development process, reducing costs, and getting to market faster.
Why manufacture prototypes with Fortus 3D Production Systems?
Reduce Time
Accelerates product development by bringing ideas to life faster and less expensively
Enables you to correct errors early in the design process and before the tooling stage
Reduces time-to-market
Reduce Cost
-Better-predict end product performance and gain certification confidence with hightolerance parts
-Find problems early in design cycle, before the cost to correct those rises
-Eliminate one or more rounds of tooling by proving out the product's design before it
reaches tooling
Other Benefits
-Multiple iterations of design produce better end product
-Gain early approvals for required testing such as UL and CE certification
-Easy to use system with no messy liquid vats or powder containers to maintain
-The Fortus technology process is simple, safe and produces thermoplastic parts in hours,
not weeks
How are Fortus thermoplastic prototypes used?
-Form and fit models and testing
-Concept models
-Functional testing in real-life conditions
-Visual aids for tooling, engineers, and accurate bids
-Sharing concepts with management, customers, sales, marketing and manufacturing
-Communication models between departments and companies
-Samples for marketing and sales
When does it make sense to produce manufacturing tools with FORTUS 3D
Production Systems?
-Low production volume
-Complex part design
-Near-term design changes are possible
-High start-up investment is needed
-Need for production to begin before tooling is ready (bridge tooling or bridge-tomanufacturing)