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Meet the newest addition to the Figure 4 line of projector-based printers. Industrial-grade quality in a professional printer footprint that delivers best in class surface quality.
| Technology | DLP |
| Build volume | 136 x 76 x 165 mm |
| Layer thickness | 20, 30 and 50 μm |
| Material type | High-performance, long-term stable, production-capable photopolymers. |
| Materials include | Choice of 10+ UV cure resins |
| Software | 3D Sprint |
| Attributes | High speed, fine detail, smooth surfaces |
When you need to supplement or replace injection mould tooling in the plastic manufacturing process, Figure 4 135 offers faster, more flexible and cost-efficient production for both prototyping and low-to-mid volume batch production for end-use parts.
By directly manufacturing small plastic end-use parts, the solution eliminates weeks to months of mould tool lead times, reducing your time-to-market from weeks to days.
Engineers can rapidly prototype and adjust designs without retooling. The solution allows companies to manufacture to the highest levels of precision and repeatability, whether prototypes, small batches, custom parts, bridge production and on-demand replacement parts. And all without the overhead of tool costs or inventory management.
Fastest 3D print technology at up to 70mm/hour; DLP projectors cure layers fast if building a single, small part or a full platform of many parts.
High-powered projector and image processing deliver out-of-box accuracy and repeatability from part-to-part and printer-to-printer.
Hands free auto-door for easy access to print area by operator or robot. Onboard production traceability features. Self-feeding resin tray from large capacity cartridge.
Simple (possibly the simplest on the market) to operate and maintain to maximize uptime. Automated features and preset profiles speed up and standardize procedures to make it easy to manage a fleet of printers.
Designed for quick and easy maintenance, all surfaces are flat, seamless, and stainless materials tested to withstand the toughest cleaning conditions.
Choice of foot-pedal or UI activated automatic door opening and closing saves time, reduces labour, increases throughput and enables future-proof automation integration.
The Figure 4 135 combines high powered, accurate light projection printing with image processing IP for extremely precise, repeatable parts. Industrial features like auto-door and auto-filling from high volume resin cartridges to enable more efficient workflows and reduce hands-on time from operators. Take your production workflow to the next level with new traceability and fleet management features designed to give you total control over processes. The Figure 4 135 was developed in accordance the latest Cybersecurity standards to keep your operation secure.
The Figure 4 135 is designed to operate with the Figure 4 range of engineering and production-grade resins delivering printed parts with an injection-molded like quality and best-in-class smoothness.
Choose from our ever-expanding range of rigid, tough, durable with thermoplastic-like behaviors, castable, heat-resistant, and biocompatible capable materials in a range of colors and translucencies. Printed parts exhibit long-term UV and humidity stable mechanical properties; up to 8 years for indoor use and up to 1.5 years for outdoor exposure per ASTM D4329 and ASTM G194 methods.
The Figure 4 135 can deliver batch-level, true production-grade outcomes required to complement traditional manufacturing operations.
With extremely high out-of-box precision, the Figure 4 135 solution is ideal for manufacturing industries where a process capability index (CpK) of at least 1.33 or above is required for critical processes. The Figure 4 135 significantly exceeds these standards making it highly reliable for precision applications.
Whether you’re building small quantities of parts for design iteration or populating a platform with large quantities of small components, the performance and output remains consistent and repeatable across multiple printers.
Figure 4 135 produces exceptional part quality and accuracy, a direct result of our trade secret pixel blending methods combined with precision projectors and innovative hardware configuration.
In order to guarantee best-in-class part quality, all our materials, print processes, image processing software, and printer hardware, are developed from +15yrs of 3D Systems’ print process experience with pixels, ensuring seamless integration.
3D Systems’ image processing software automatically adjusts the pixel edges with gray scaling techniques. This results in high-quality production-grade plastic parts with best-in-class surface quality.
The Figure 4 135 uses a projector-based imaging and non-contact membrane technology to build complex, high-resolution parts quickly. Instead of using a laser like in traditional Stereolithography (SLA), Figure 4 uses a projector array to cure an entire layer of liquid resin at once. This technology enables fast print speeds and high-resolution printing. The higher resolution projector in the Figure 4 135 improves accuracy and precision and enabling the fine details and thin walls necessary for connectors.
By complementing traditional manufacturing of small plastic parts with the Figure 4 135, additional efficiencies and cost savings can be unlocked. While mold tooling is more suited for high volume, other factors need to be accounted for including extended lead times, upfront investments costs and high costs of design changes. Once a tool is used, it then needs to be inventoried, stored, and maintained. Contrast that with a Figure 4 135 that can be used for prototyping, product development, bridge manufacturing and without limits to the number of possible SKUs produced. Hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars can be saved through supplementing a traditional manufacturing process with the Figure 4 135 solution.