From the screen to your hand, producing
incredibly realistic product models is now fast and easy for
designers with J55 and J8 Series PolyJet 3D printers
Almost any product designer will tell you that prototyping the
shape of a new design with 3D printing is pretty easy. But
accurately simulating color, material and finish, or “CMF,” can
take serious time and money. Not anymore. Thanks to the latest
KeyShot 10 3D rendering software and Stratasys Ltd.’s (NASDAQ:
SSYS) J55™ and J8 Series 3D printers, it’s little more than just
click and print.
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Designers can now 3D print in full color
and textures like wood right from KeyShot software to Stratasys
PolyJet printers. (Photo: Business Wire)
The full-color, multi-material Stratasys 3D printers and the
latest version of KeyShot from Luxion both now support the new 3MF
file format, a significant improvement over legacy STL, OBJ, and
VRML files. By saving designs to 3MF, KeyShot 10 produces files
ready for printing, with accurate colors and bump/displacement maps
to three-dimensionally simulate textures like fabric and wood.
Additional enhancements are planned for 2021.
Columbus, Ohio-based Priority Designs was a beta user of the new
KeyShot 10 capabilities using the office-friendly J55 3D printer.
Erik Fickas, senior industrial designer, said the speed and
simplicity with which they can 3D print a collection of design
options is completely new.
“We developed this Bluetooth speaker model and used KeyShot to
add all the textures like the speaker grill, then just saved to the
new 3MF file format for 3D printing,” Fickas said. “Overnight, we
had five different models with five different wood samples and
different fabric samples. To rapid prototype a wood texture would
have been a heck of a lot of work. It’s really incredible what we
can do now.”
Stratasys estimates that 3MF support with KeyShot can reduce 3D
print modeling time of CMF models to a single day, while
traditional modeling for final iterations can take from one to
three weeks. The new workflow enables the CMF design phase to start
earlier in the design process, helping bring new products to market
faster, and also keeps modeling in-house to reduce risk of
intellectual property loss.
“The J55 made true full-color, multi-material 3D printing
accessible to design studios everywhere, but to fully transform how
products are designed, we needed to make the whole workflow
simple,” said Stratasys Vice President of Design Shamir Shoham.
“Adding KeyShot support in our PolyJet 3D printers adds an
additional advantage compared to designers who are only using 3D
printing for concept designs and turning to slower and expensive
traditional models for detailed designs.”
Luxion refined the new KeyShot 10 Smart Export functionality to
improve the simplicity of 3D printing with Stratasys, working with
some of the companies’ shared customers. “We were able to put
automatic UV Unwrapping, baking and file packaging all in one step,
allowing easy, fast, and intuitive 3D printing with next generation
full CMF printers such as the J55,” said Luxion Vice President of
Product and Strategy Derek Cicero. “We are proud to embrace 3MF
with Stratasys as an industry-backed, open format, containing data
about colors, textures and other key manufacturing information,
making it a huge step up from STL.”
3MF is an increasingly popular open-source file format published
by the 3MF Consortium, of which Stratasys is a leading member. The
format improves workflow because it includes all model information
in one package, even down to voxel level control of the interior
and metadata of the model. While other 3D printing companies
provide support for the 3MF model, Stratasys is the only company
providing a PANTONE-Validated™ full color, multi-material 3D
printer that can take full advantage of the 3MF format’s
capabilities. In addition to KeyShot, Stratasys also provides 3MF
support for a variety of other applications, including
SOLIDWORKS®.
More information on 3D printing with the 3MF format on the J55
and J8 Series printers is available online. Priority Designs shared
its story on using the new KeyShot functionality in a new online
video.
Stratasys is a global leader in additive manufacturing or
3D printing technology and is the manufacturer of FDM®, PolyJet™,
and stereolithography 3D printers. The company’s technologies are
used to create prototypes, manufacturing tools, and production
parts for industries, including aerospace, automotive, healthcare,
consumer products and education. For more than 30 years, Stratasys
products have helped manufacturers reduce product-development time,
cost, and time-to-market, as well as reduce or eliminate tooling
costs and improve product quality. The Stratasys 3D printing
ecosystem of solutions and expertise includes 3D printers,
materials, software, expert services, and on-demand parts
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