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    IMTS 2024: QuickCast Air Uses Less Resin and Support Structures in Investment Casting

    Sept. 23, 2024
    QuickCast Air from 3D Systems, Inc. maximizes material removal from the interior of casting patterns, enabling reduced material consumption, lower pattern costs, faster build times, cleaner burnout processes, and improved draining efficiency.
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    3D Systems
    3D Systems QuickCast Air

    Launched at IMTS 2024, QuickCast Air is an advanced tool that maximizes material removal from the interior of casting patterns, enabling reduced material consumption, lower pattern costs, faster build times, cleaner burnout processes, and improved draining efficiency.

    End-users in industries such as foundries, aerospace & defense, and energy can reliably deliver large, high-precision investment casting patterns at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional tooling and with no limitation on geometric complexity.

    QuickCast Air is available to 3D Systems' customers through its 3D Sprint software which is integral to the Company's polymer printing platforms. This feature, available via an annual subscription, allows customers to design casting patterns with fewer structures within the self-supporting walls. Using less resin and building more refined support structures results in less material needing to be burned out and thus less ash. Having less internal structure makes it easier to drain the resin, retaining more within the vat during the draining process rather than being lost downstream. Within 3D Sprint, users can easily adjust the part's shell thickness and add vents and drains on any surface, simplifying part set-up regardless of the build orientation.

    Features:

    • Experience reduction in resin usage
    • Patterns weigh a fraction of those produced from traditional methods or bulkier build styles while retaining parity in strength
    • Walls are self-supporting with fewer structures making the draining and burnout processes more efficient
    • Fewer structures makes it easier to drain and makes the printing process faster
    • Less vectors to print results in shorter draw times
    • Lower material usage
    • Cleaner burnouts
    • Reduced labor in post-processing steps
    • Higher printer availability and production capacity
    • Effortlessly adjust the shell thickness
    • Place vent drains on any to reduce the need for manual hole drilling and minimize breakage risks
    • Integrates with QuickCast Diamond

    3D Systems, Inc.
    Rock Hill, SC
    (888) 598-1438
    3dsystems.com