It starts with high-strength composite materials, but the composite-ready F Series offers much more. More materials, more reliability – more capability than other similar printers.
Make workholding fixtures, soft jaws, and parts with composite 3D printing in a fraction of the time and cost it takes to machine a metal equivalent. F123CR printers supplement traditional fabrication technologies, allowing industrial manufacturers to replace metal components with high-strength 3D printed composite parts. This accelerates throughput while avoiding the opportunity cost of using production resources or the lead time of outsourcing.
F123CR printers use ABS-CF10 and FDM® Nylon-CF10 composite materials, both reinforced with chopped carbon fiber, 10% by weight for strength and stiffness. F123CR soluble support material enables complex designs that cannot be made with conventional machining or other 3D printers that don’t have this capability. Four-layer resolutions give you flexibility on part quality and print speed. Variable part density gives you the freedom to make fully-dense, solid parts or adjust the infill to save weight and material use.
F123CR composite printers are built on the same platform as the proven F123 Series, with a verified 99% uptime and a 99% dimensional repeatability performance.* Material tuning – optimizing print parameters using over 220 measurements – ensures consistent material performance across all resolutions and successful print results.
* Stratasys 2020 Repeatability and Reliability study for F370, Fortus 450mc and F900 printers.
You don’t need special training or highly skilled technicians to operate F123CR printers. Job setup simply involves importing the part’s CAD file using GrabCAD Print™ software and initiating the print. The printer requires no further oversight until the job is done.
GrabCAD Print software provides a simple and intuitive CAD-to-print workflow and includes advanced features to ensure successful prints. For users who want deeper control of print options, Insight™ software is also included on the F370CR. MTConnect capabilities make it easy to integrate the printers into a connected factory floor. This industry-standard communication API lets you collect, analyze and display machine data in a useful way.
An open material platform enhances versatility even further by allowing you to expand your application space with new materials you develop or ones developed in partnership between Stratasys and a third party. The Stratasys open material ecosystem includes validated materials that have received basic reliability testing, and materials created outside the Stratasys material development process.
Carbon fiber materials allow the substitution of machined metal for strong and rigid 3D printed soft jaws, fixtures and manufacturing aids.
Composite materials provide the mechanical properties for durable low-volume production parts.
Capitalize on the high-strength capabilities of composite 3D printing to accelerate production with fast, iterative functional prototyping.
High-strength composites, diverse engineering-grade thermoplastics and open material capability unlock a wide range of applications on the most versatile composite 3D printer in its class.
Simple set up and operation means you can be printing in minutes. GrabCAD Print software provides an intuitive workflow and printer features are designed for easy functionality. Unattended operation means you don’t need additional headcount.
These composite-ready printers are built on the same platform as the highly reliable F123 Series printers, with a demonstrated 99% uptime and 99% dimensional repeatability performance.
GrabCAD Print software provides a streamlined, user friendly workflow to help designers go from CAD model to 3D printed part in just a few clicks. Create more accurate parts and make better design decisions with build preparation, and manage print queues from anywhere.
GrabCAD Shop has been proven to save a typical 3D printing model shop over 15% in wasted time and productivity by streamlining the workflow between engineers, designers, and shop operators. As an online web application, your team can remotely access and collaborate on 3D printing work orders, using popular features such as work order tracking, chat and notifications, cost calculator, tray consolidation, and more!
GrabCAD Shop also saves 3D printer operators time managing, scheduling, and budgeting 3D printing work orders by directly integrating with GrabCAD Print to streamline the 3D printing process.
