3D Printing

3D Systems Releases Its Own Soluble Filament for Complex, Moving 3D Prints

Other 3D printer manufacturers have been promoting the use of water soluble filament for their machines for some time, but, because 3D Systems’ Cube 3 and CubePro rely on filament cartridge systems, the use of such filament, for printing support structures to create more complex prints, is not as easy as inserting a third-party material and printing.  Fortunately for Cube owners, 3D Systems has just released their Infinity Rinse-Away water-soluble support material.

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The Infinity Rinse-Away material, available at $49 for the Cube and $99 for the CubePro, is meant to dissolve quickly and cleanly with nothing other than ordinary water. This opens up awesome possibilities for Cube users to 3D print even more elaborate designs, including “gravity defying overhangs and suspension in space”, as well as objects with moving parts. Because the Cube 3 and CubePro are designed to be plug-and-play machines, this whole process is supposed to be as painless as possible, with the 3DS Cubify app automatically generating support structures.

Peter Theran, Vice President of Global Consumer Products at 3DS, says of the new release, “We are thrilled to expand our desktop printing materials with the introduction of Infinity Rinse-Away soluble support material, enabling never-before-possible results from consumer 3D printers. We are excited to see the amazing things that our growing user base will do with these powerful new capabilities.”

It’s great to see 3D Systems get on board with soluble support materials, which obviously allow for so many more possibilities for desktop 3D printing. Now, the question is: when will the company begin selling composite filaments, as well?