Shapeways White, Strong & Flexible 3D Printing

This video shows the 3D Printing process of 'White, Strong & Flexible' - the strongest thermoplastic material that we have at the moment. The material is a polyamide 12, powder. The machine used is an EOS Formiga P100 SLS machine. SLS stands for Selective Laser Sintering and this is the 3D printing process used by the Formiga.

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[Marco Maltese]

Is it safe to not use any gloves? After all it's still all chemical shit...

[Shapeways]

The material is Nylon 12, Polyamide, the same basic material used in cosmetics such as mascara and lipstick. No need for gloves in handling the 3d printed products from shapeways.

[Marco Maltese]

Ye I guess you don't need gloves to manipulate the objects printed ;)

But I'm a bit scared about all that dust...

[Shapeways]

Like Bill said, don't inhale it..

[tiphoonvG]

This is the first step to beaming.

[BadBunnyRides]

...Dec 21, 2012, EOS Formiga P100 SLS becomes Self Aware. In a panic Shapeways tries to shut it off. Formiga retaliates by unleashing killer-cyber-robots it has been creating on it's lunch breaks. Within six months 90% of the Human Race is wiped out...the remaining 10% can still make cool stuff.

[piplup2009]

I got my shapeways order in 2 days! from the Netherlands to the uk

[cissell111]

Saying that the printer "missed" detail is like saying a calculator got Pi wrong because it only displayed it to the 8th place after the decimal.