This breaks open a new set of applications for manufacturers across industries.įrom heat sinks and bus bars, to custom welding shanks, Markforged customers are now able to reinvent the way they manufacture copper components. Markforged Copper offers Metal X customers the ability to print parts that require thermal and electrical conductivity. This process overcomes the traditional challenges of 3D printing copper with directed energy systems (such as DMLS) due to copper’s high thermal conductivity. After printing, users wash the part to debind the wax, and then load the part in a furnace which thermally removes the remaining binder and then sinters the powder into the final fully metal part. The process starts with metal powder, captured in a plastic binder (which makes it safe to handle filament on a spool), and then forms it into the part shape one layer at a time. The Metal X leverages a Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) processing method that makes printing copper simple for the first time. In our labs, we are working on additional materials to further expand the line up. With the addition of Markforged Copper, we are excited that customers can now make electrical and heat transfer components on the same printer as our stainless steel, nickel super alloy, and tool steels. Switching materials on the Metal X takes about 10 minutes.
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Markforged customers order a spool, choose ‘Copper’ in the material drop-down menu in our cloud-based slicing software Eiger, and begin printing right away. No hardware changes are needed to start printing copper.
Printing with Markforged Copper involves the same simple process Markforged customers are used to with our existing metal materials on the Metal X System. There are several reasons why we’re excited about the addition of Markforged Copper:
Copper parts coming out of the Markforged Sinter-2
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