Raise3D has announced an upgrade kit for it's Pro3 series of 3D printers to take the speed and productivity to a new level. This is acheived by addressing 4 main areas: Hardware, Software, Filaments and Algorithm
The Pro3 Series 3D printers have set new standards in strength and reliability. The Pro3 Series’ strong and stable frame allows the printer to maintain high dimensional accuracy and excellent surface quality while running at extremely high acceleration and high speeds.
Also, the Pro3’s advanced onboard processors allowed Raise3D’s R&D team to fully unleash the power of innovative motion planning techniques, and process over 600,000 steps per second to implement an active vibration cancellation algorithm.
Performance
The results reached with the installation of the HUK3 on the Pro3 series, and the use of filaments from the high-speed line of filaments, are impressive and make it clearly stand out from all other professional printers
Edward Feng, Raise3D’s global CEO, said: “The results we’ve achieved with this technology breakthrough are truly remarkable, far better than we could anticipate, and makes us feel confident it will be a milestone, not only for Raise3D, but even for the whole FFF-based3D printing industry.”
He added: “Our competitive superiority at a technological level has been increasingly recognized over the last years. With the HUK3 allowing customers’ ROI to multiply by more than 3 times, we now want to reach more than 3 times the customers we have so far, and have so decided to offer,
until the end of the year, an exceptional price of almost 1/3 lower than the retail price planned for 2023.”
Filaments Available
One of the challenges Raise3D faced while pushing for higher speed was the limitation coming from the filaments’ flowability.
In FFF, as it is known, the deposited material lines are fused by the residual heat of the material and the pressure of the moving nozzle. However, when the printing speed increases by a factor of 4,
the filament has very short time to melt from solid to a molten state, leaving the extruded material in a semi-molten state, with a hot shell and cold core, which can cause nozzle clogging and poor
bonding quality between layers. Raise3D and their partners worked together to solve this challenge and is now launching two new filament lines for high-speed printing: the Hyper Speed and the Hyper Core.
The Hyper Speed is comprised of the more widespread filaments, while the Hyper Core is oriented towards more professional and industrial filaments, such as fiber-reinforced materials for industrial
and end-use parts production and heavy-duty applications such as tooling, jigs & fixtures.
Both filament lines are optimized with balanced molecular weight and flowability, which allows them to have an excellent interlayer bonding quality and Z-direction strength, a smooth surface quality,
and absolutely zero warpage, making it perfectly suitable for many functional parts.
The Hyper Speed line will initially have available PLA and ABS, but other materials, like PETG, PC, ASA, ESD-safe, among others, are already in the pipeline to be released.
During 2023, the Hyper Core line will also launch its first filament, PPA CF, which is a carbon fiber-reinforced composite filament with superior heat resistance, strength, and stiffness.
To enhance the number of materials available for their customers, Raise3D will now invite filament manufacturers to join a specific new stage of their Open Filament Program (OFP), focused on high speed filaments.
Active Vibration Cancellation Algorithm
The core of the Hyper FFF™ technology is the active vibration cancellation algorithm. The algorithm will calculate an optimized acceleration pattern and absorb the excessive
amount of vibration whenever the printer head makes any high-speed change in direction.
By measuring the natural frequency of the extruder head, the processor will divide the single acceleration command into two equivalent accelerations, in order to generate two
reverse vibration waves, which in turn cancel their own vibration during the reverse phase, so the printer head manages to minimize its own friction and shaking using the same hardware.
Hardware
When it comes to high-speed printing, the role of hardware is fundamental in delivering high-quality printing results, despite the extremely high printing speeds.
The Pro3 Series’ strong and stable frame ensures high dimensional accuracy and excellent surface quality, withstanding the effects of extremely high acceleration and high speeds.
Additionally, its advanced onboard processors can handle over six hundred thousand steps per second and implement the active vibration cancellation algorithm on Pro3 Series 3D printers.
But this disruptive technology is not just for the Pro3 Series. Raise3D is working to bring it to more printer lines in the future, in such a way that existing customers can also always benefit from it.
Filaments
The Hyper Speed line filaments are designed to withstand the higher speeds and yet still maintain high quality.
With optimized and balanced molecular weight, Hyper Speed ABS and Hyper Speed PLA have higher flowability and lower heat capacity. Melting and cooling are both faster.
As a result, the surface quality of parts printed using Hyper Speed filaments is smooth and most of the sharp details are maintained.
The Hyper Core line filaments will also be launched, designed for industrial and end-use parts production, as well as heavy-duty applications.
Software
Raise3D always constantly develops slicing software for its users to have available the latest filament profiles and make the most of the printer’s potential.
The software capability developed by Raise3D is an important component of the Hyper FFF™, to achieve its goal of high speed printing.
A newer version of ideaMaker, compatible with Hyper Speed printing, is now available.
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