Engineering Grade Resins

Description

Engineering resins for SLA printing are specially formulated to offer improved mechanical, thermal, and chemical properties compared to basic methacrylate-based SLA resins. These resins often contain urethane, epoxy, or composite additives to enhance performance. Their properties might be more tough/impact-resistant, flexible/elastic, heat resistant, etc.

Material Sources

• Formlabs Engineering Resins (For SLA printer Formlabs Form 3):
  • Elastic 50A
  • Flexible 80A
  • Durable
  • Tough 1500
  • Tough 2000
  • Rigid 4K
  • Silicone 40A
  • Alumina 4N - technical ceramic resin
• Stratasys Engineering-Grade Resins (for polyjet printers like Stratasys Objet260 Connex3):
  • Digital ABS (datasheet)
  • Agilus30 (Shore 30A, datasheet)
• Accura ClearVue
• Accura Xtreme White 200
• Carbon3D rigid resins, elastomeric resins,
• Siraya Tech Tenacious Flexible - Siraya Tech resins are often used on the Elegoo Mars SLA printer
• Siraya Tech Blu-Tough
• Other Engineering Resins at MatterHackers (Loctite, Liqcreate, eSUN, etc.)

High Temperature Resins

Resins designed to withstand extreme temperatures, typically used for industrial and aerospace components.

• High Temp for Formlabs Form 3 (SLA)
• Carbon3D High Temp resin
• Siraya Tech Sculpt
• Link: Seven best high temp resins for 3D printing

3D Printers that can use it

• Formlabs Form 3
• Formlabs Form 3L
• Formlabs Form 4
• Other SLA printers