3D PRINTERS FOR THE SHOP FLOOR
High strength 3D printing in both composites and metal
3D PRINTERS FOR THE SHOP FLOOR
High strength 3D printing in both composites and metal
Markforged is freeing designers and engineers from the long lead times and high costs of traditional manufacturing and machining
Instead of waiting weeks and paying thousands of dollars for a part, with Markforged you can 3D print incredibly high-performance parts on-premise in under 24 hrs. Print carbon fiber for parts that are as strong as aluminum and dramatically lighter.
Soft Jaws, end of arm tooling, inspection fixtures, welding fixtures: you name it, we have a shop floor application that can fit your manufacturing needs and budget.
INDUSTRY LEADING 3D PRINTING SOLUTIONS
DESKTOP
3D PRINTERS
MARK TWO
The Mark Two combines Markforged’s unique continuous carbon fiber reinforcement with workhorse reliability for the strongest, most versatile parts in our portfolio. It is the only printer in the industry that enables you to go from CAD to beautiful, end-use strong parts in hours.
With your choice of reinforcement and plastics, remove the time, hassle and design iterations and put your parts to use right off the printer engineered with the right material for any job.
INDUSTRIAL
3D PRINTERS
X7
The X7 produces exceptionally strong, supremely stiff, ultra lightweight, and incredibly versatile parts. Deliver unparalleled performance without compromise.
Built from the ground up for reliable performance, the X7 delivers breakthrough quality and precision in 3D printing. The top-of-the-line industrial grade platform features a strengthened dual nozzle print system that supports Continuous Carbon Fiber and Kevlar reinforcement. Laser inspection scans parts mid-print to ensure dimensional accuracy for the most critical tolerances.
METAL
3D PRINTERS
METAL X
Everything you need to go from design to fully functional metal parts in under 24 hours — the Metal X 3D print system is an end-to-end manufacturing solution.
The Metal X is up to 10x less expensive than alternative metal additive manufacturing technologies — and up to a 100x less than traditional fabrication technologies like machining or casting.
Our cloud-based printer management software, built-in touchscreen interface and automatic material tracking make the Metal X system the simplest way to manufacture metal parts.
THE DIFFERENCE IS IN THE DETAILS
Print parts stronger than aluminum. Formed from the combination of two materials, composite parts are incredibly strong and versatile. Our unique fabrication process enables you to print parts that are an order of magnitude stiffer and stronger than typical 3D printed objects.
Our base material, Onyx yields stiff, strong, and accurate parts. Already 1.4 times stronger and stiffer than ABS, Onyx can be reinforced with any continuous fiber. Onyx sets the bar for surface finish, chemical resistivity, and heat tolerance.
With a built-in laser micrometer, the X Industrial Series automatically scans the print bed with 1um accuracy to generate a contour map of its surface. By calibrating its measurements with extrusion readings to perfectly set nozzle height and active topography adjustment, the X7 ensures your prints come out exactly how you want them.
Accuracy is key. With down to 50 Micron (.0019in) layer height and .003-.004in repeatability. Markforged X series printers are ready to handle your most demanding manufacturing applications.
With automatic version control, real-time fleet management and cloud-based collaboration, Eiger is the world’s most advanced 3D printing software. Designed from the ground up to make manufacturing simpler, Eiger enables you to print plastic, metal and composite parts straight from your browser.
3D printing with composite fiber is as much about the software as it is about the unique technology of the printers. The Markforged Eiger software is both powerful and easy to use in your browser, importing your drawing and slicing it for high strength printing.
APPLICATIONS AND WHITEPAPERS
Soft Jaws
Inspection Fixtures
End-of-Arm Tooling
Welding Fixtures
Process Automation
3D Printing in Process Automation
Process automation tooling can be the difference between a functional-but-inefficient process and one that’s optimized for its purpose. Good process automation tooling set-ups targets the least efficient, least automated, and least accurate steps of your process and transforms them into strengths. They come in the form of part collectors, part stock manipulators, sensor mounts, guides, and many other things. Due to their unique shapes, wide variety, and lack of critical importance to a successful run, process automation tools are often not prioritized.
High strength 3D printing allows you to quickly design, test, and implement process automation tools for low cost. Markforged materials are uniquely suited for manufacturing environments: carbon fiber filled nylon base material resists cutting fluids and other manufacturing chemicals, while continuous fiber reinforcement gives parts the strength, stiffness, and durability to endure indefinite cycles. Manufacturing engineers thrive in situations where they can add value through incremental improvements—giving them a Markforged printer will allow them to improve more processes at a faster rate.
Functional Prototyping
3D Printing Functional Prototypes
For a prototype to be as useful as it can be, it doesn’t just need look the part—it needs to function as an end-use part would. Cosmetic prototypes, while useful for verifying fit and look, lack the strength to properly evaluate functionality of a design in application. Functional prototypes need to withstand the same rigors that the final part would, including loading and exposure to chemicals. Machining low volume prototypes out of materials that are both strong and chemically resistant takes time and money, stretching development cycles and unnecessarily straining R&D budgets..
Utilizing a 3D printer gives the you the ability to quickly iterate, print, test, and modify within a matter of days — replacing a process that typically requires weeks to months for every iteration. Functional prototypes come out of Markforged printers ready to work, and are strong and resistant to corrosive environments. Continuous fiber reinforcement gives these printed parts near aluminum strength—as a result, they can effectively mimic parts that will eventually be made out of both plastic and metal. Printing prototypes keeps costs down and reduces design cycle time so much that you can iterate more while still taking your products to market faster.
End Use Parts
3D Printing End Use Parts
Cost per part depends heavily on production manufacturing volume. For many businesses, the high up-front costs of low cost-per-part processes (like injection molding) make their parts either extremely expensive or impossible to make. Some turn to processes like CNC in an effort to cut costs, but the result isn’t much cheaper. The truth is as simple as it is unfortunate: if you’re making plastic or metal parts at low volume, you’re going to pay heavily for it. 3D printing in the past has produced parts that both looked and performed worse than conventionally machined parts..
With Markforged’s printing platform, you can print parts that both look and work well enough to sell. Printing with chopped carbon fiber reinforced nylon (Onyx) yields parts without defects or layer lines, and continuous fiber reinforcement gives parts the strength and durability to work in application. The variety of end-use parts you can create depends only on the size of the build volume: whether it’s custom formed intakes, drone parts, camera mounts, or bracketry, you’ll be able to affordably produce parts at a small scale. As an added benefit, you can use the same platform to prototype and produce your part, reducing the barrier between R&D and production.
Get Sample Parts
Get a free carbon fiber sample part. Contact us to discuss your application and we’ll print up to two parts, one printed with standard thermoplastic and one reinforced with continuous carbon fiber.
