Get 100% silicone parts-in-hands in less than 24 hours or production-grade elastomers in minutes, allowing rapid order fulfillment and faster time-to-market. Deliver end-use part performance, accuracy, and mechanical properties that enable prototypes to bridge production.
100%
silicone prototypes within 24 hours
10x
faster with direct 3D printing capability
Up to 97
Shore A 3D printing elastomers

Seals and Gaskets for Perfect Fit

Creating seal and gasket prototypes for testing and end-use validation is critical to ensure the perfect fit of your consumer products, but they can be time consuming and expensive to produce with conventional methods. 

Our 3D Printing solutions offer the ability of rapid design iteration and prototyping of these complex components. Both through eggshell molding for 100% silicone components, a fast and cost-effective alternative to injection molding, or direct 3D printing of chemical resistant and biocompatible elastomers.
 

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Solving Soft Material Components Prototyping Challenges with 3D Printing

  • Get silicone seals and gaskets in 24 hours with digital eggshell molding

  • Rapid Design Iteration

    With 3D Systems’ solutions capable of 3D printing prototypes in less than 24 hours, OEMs can optimize their workflow to reduce the time between design iterations, enabling rapid order fulfillment and faster time-to-market. Digital eggshell molding allows you to get true silicone parts in as fast as 24 hours. For the fastest turnaround, biocompatible and chemical-resistant elastomeric components can be directly 3D printed in minutes.

  • Production-grade materials with advanced performance, including elastomeric materials

  • End-Use Performance

    Accuracy, precision, and mechanical properties are critical factors for product validation and end-use components. Achieve production performance with both digital eggshell molding and direct 3D printing, as they offer pristine surface quality, texturing capability, detail fidelity, and exceptional accuracy. 

  • 3D printing materials used for digital eggshell molding are compatible with most standard silicones

  • Best-In-Class Material Properties

    To validate your design, digital eggshell molding is compatible with most standard silicones, both tin and platinum based. Our elastomeric materials for 3D printing have excellent tear-resistance for form and fit testing. Further, they are biocompatible and have chemical resistance to hydrocarbons and cleaning chemicals (tested for sealed and surface contact compatibility per ASTM D543 and USCAR2).

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  • Operational Productivity

    Our end-to-end additive manufacturing solutions are designed to deliver industry-leading quality, reliability, and productivity to keep your operation running efficiently for high-volume production of prototypes, bridge manufacturing, and mass customization. Maximized uptime, reduced labor enabled by downstream compatibility with automation, and minimized waste contribute to a lower cost per part and high manufacturing yield.

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3D Printing Solutions that Accelerate Innovation

  • Complete Solutions Portfolio

    Our hardware, software, materials, post-processing, and manufacturing operating system (MOS) solutions offer unprecedented speed, quality, design flexibility, economics, and product reliability. We offer a user friendly, end-to-end 3D printing solution to create eggshell molds or to directly 3D print elastomeric components. The result is repeatable parts with exceptional surface finish, accuracy, fine detail, and resolution. 

  • Production-Grade Materials

    Our comprehensive range of high-performance materials addresses application-specific requirements. Our high temperature resistant materials for digital eggshell molding are compatible with most commonly used silicones, and our elastomeric materials for direct 3D printing offer select shore A values, chemical resistance, and biocompatible options. 

  • Application Development

    Through our Application Innovation Group, we leverage years of consumer technology and additive manufacturing expertise to help you solve your most difficult design and production challenges with optimized 3D printing solutions. We provide you with application support, from advanced concept development to bridge production and mass customization.

  • World-Class Service Support

    From installation to hands-on training and consulting support, 3D Systems’ experts enable you to quickly and effectively ramp up your operation. To maximize your uptime and keep your fleet running efficiently, our world-class service organization is equipped to meet your business needs, with on-call experts, field engineering services, preventive maintenance programs, and optimized equipment for high serviceability.

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Making 3D Production Real with Scalable, Modular Factory Solutions

Figure 4 Rubber Black material

Figure 4 RUBBER-65A BLK

Mid tear strength production-grade rubber

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ProJet MJP 2500/2500 Plus

MultiJet printing quality, speed and ease of use made accessible

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VisiJet M2S-HT250 (MJP)

Up to 250°C heat resistance, strong and rigid material

A manifold adaptor made from Figure 4 RUBBER-BLK 10

Figure 4 RUBBER-BLK 10

Durable, hard rubber-like material

A printed medical part made from Figure 4 EGGSHELL-AMB 10

Figure 4 EGGSHELL-AMB 10

Process-optimized material for sacrificial tooling to cast silicone

High temperature resistant translucent plastic with HDT over 300 °C

Figure 4 HI TEMP 300-AMB

High temperature resistant translucent plastic with HDT over 300 °C

An 3D printed industrial keypad made from the material, VisiJet M2E-BK70

VisiJet M2E-BK70 (MJP)

Tough black elastomer

VisiJet M2 EBK (MJP)

VisiJet M2 EBK (MJP)

Elastomeric opaque black

3D Systems ProJet MJP 5600 3D Printer

ProJet MJP 5600

Large format, multi-material composite parts in a single build

VisiJet CE-BK (MJP)

VisiJet CE-BK (MJP)

Elastomeric opaque black

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  • Application Innovation Group

    Our team can help you solve your most difficult design and production challenges with additive manufacturing solutions. Together we’ll identify your needs, working with you to optimize your designs, prototype, validate and define a manufacturing flow.