Facilities | U3DP

Overview

3D Printers 3D Scanners Raw Materials Processing Machines Post-Processing Equipment Quality Inspection Equipment

Metal	Plastic	Resin
Selective Laser Melting (SLM) SLM 280HL dual SLM 280HL twin SLM 125HL	Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) Stratasys Fortus 900MC Stratasys Fortus 450MC Creatbot D600 Ultimaker S5 Bambu Lab X1 carbon Makerbot Replicator+ Fused Granulate Fabrication (FGF) Piocreat G5 Pro Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) Sinterit Lisa Pro	PolyJet Stratasys J850 3DFashion Stratasys J750 Digital Light Processing (DLP) BMF microArch S230A 2µm BMF microArch S240A 10µm LuxCreo 3Li+ EnvisionTec Perfactory4 3D systems Figure 4 Formlabs Form4B Stereolithography (SLA) Formlabs Form3+
Ceramic	Silicone / Biomaterial / Food	Nanomaterials
Digital Light Processing (DLP) Admatec Admaflex 130	Material extrusion SanDraw S300 EnvisionTec Bioplotter Natural Machines Foodini	Aerosol Jet Optomec AJ300

Handheld		Precision
Artec Leo Scanner		Carl Zeiss Comet L3D 5M

Metal	Plastic
Metal Powder ATO metal atomizer	Filament Noztek XCalibur Filament Extruder

Metal	Ceramic	Printed Electronics
Metal Polishing (for Metal printed parts) DLyte 100D+Ti	Water debinding (for Admaflex 130 printed parts) Water debinding machine Thermal debinding (for ceramic parts ONLY) Nabertherm L40/11BO thermal debinding furnace Thermal sintering (for ceramic parts ONLY) Nabertherm HT29/17 thermal sintering furnace	Photonic Sintering (for Aerosol Jet AJ300 printed parts) Xenon X-1100
Resin	FDM	PolyJet
Washing Form Wash(for Form3+ printed parts) Curing Form Cure(for Form3+ printed parts)	Support removal WaterWorks(for FDM printed parts)	Support removal Water Jet(for PolyJet printed parts)

Powder Analyzers

Particle size analysis
- Malvern Mastersizer 3000

Particle size and shape analysis
- Malvern Morphologi 4
Rheometer
- FreeMan FT4 Powder Rheometer

Main Feature

The U3DP supports students’ learning and teaching activities as well as accommodating the needs of researchers and academic staff by having a full range of:

Facility and equipment from elementary grade to industrial grade.
Materials including commonly used (e.g. plastic) and special type (e.g. biocompatible resin, silver ink, graphene).
Technologies from 3D scanning, CAD modelling to 3D printing.
Production including multi-material and multi-colour printing.

Located next to PolyU IC, the U3DP is also supported by IC’s technical workshops in various pre/post-process technologies as well as its expertise with 20 years+ solid research support, development and application experience in 3DP.

Major Facilities

Located on the 5/F of PolyU IC, the U3DP is equipped with:

Over 50 sets of 3DP machines/equipment (from elementary to industrial grade) with single build up to 914 x 914 x 609 mm (Scalable)
Over 35 sets of computer for 3D modelling
Computer software in 3D scanning, re-construction, modelling and printing
3D Printing post-treatment working area and facilities
Innovation and Incubation Corner (i2)

Innovation and Incubation Corner

Application

The sky’s the limit.

Some major applications of 3D Prints in the early days were to develop prototypes of new parts and devices in a more efficient way and in low cost. With the rapid development of the technologies and facilities, 3D Printing has now entered the world of nearly all industries and fields.

Researchers and educators are encouraged to utilize this technology and U3DP’s facilities to excel their novel research and innovations.

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