Somos® 9120™
With mechanical properties that mimic many engineering plastics, parts created from Somos® 9120 exhibit superior fatigue properties, strong memory retention and a good balance of properties between rigidity and functionality.
Stratasys Neo450 Series
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Neo450e / Neo450s
Versatile Stereolithography 3D Printers
Reliable, productive and efficient, the Stratasys Neo®450 series is designed and engineered for industrial-grade performance. Based on the proven Neo800, the compact Neo450 series has a 17.72 × 17.72 × 15.75 in. platform and builds prototypes, rapid tooling and master patterns with exceptional surface quality, accuracy and detail. Designed for greater flexibility and versatility, the Neo450 series is available in two models, with different performance and functionality depending on your printing needs.
The Stratasys Neo450e is an affordable industrial-grade 3D printer producing small to medium parts with consistent accuracy and repeatability. Dependable and reliable, the Stratasys Neo450e is designed for nonstop printing of industrial production parts. The Neo450s offers performance and versatility along with all the benefits of Neo450e. The Neo450s is up to 40% faster and offers standard and high-definition build modes, producing superior quality parts.
Software
Titanium is an easy-to-use software interface that allows users to start builds quickly and monitor throughout the building process. Software updates are driven by customer suggestions and feedback, providing a system that is optimized for customers and their applications.
A Complete Workflow
The Neo line includes a UV curing oven and unloading cart for a seamless post-processing workflow. After printing, the residual resin can be removed using cleaning solvents applied manually or via a semi-automated solution. Once clean, parts cure for an average of 6 minutes per side under UV lamps.
Why choose the Neo450 Series 3D Printers?
Exceptional part sidewall quality
Outstanding scanning resolution reduces finishing time by up to 50%.
Compact Design, Versatile Performance
Print single large-sized or many smaller detailed parts on the 17.72 × 17.72 × 15.75 in. build volume.
Open resin system
Compatible with all commercially available 355nm SL resins, allowing the freedom of material selection.
Customer-driven development
Customer suggestions and feedback are encouraged, driving user-focused software updates.
Intuitive Titanium software
Easy-to-use software optimizes build time and part quality with part-traceability and machine utilization reporting.
Accessible support
Remote diagnostics or convenient on-site support from our exceptional service team.
Quality assurance
The Neo450 series is carefully designed and engineered throughout, using premium components, parts and finishes.
Connected Services
Stay connected and updated with the built-in camera, emailed progress reports and status updates.
NEO Materials
Stratasys certified materials from a trusted photopolymer resin manufacturer.
In partnership with Covestro Additive Manufacturing (formerly DSM) and its Somos,® resins, the Stratasys Neo 3D printers are certified to run the most technically advanced stereolithography (SL) materials.
Somos® resins and Stratasys Neo 3D printers produce SL parts for a wide variety of applications, including prototyping, tooling and master patterns. Somos® resins can be used to print prototypes for concept development and functional testing, as well as applications requiring high heat deflection properties.
Parts printed in Somos® resins on Neo 3D printers are dimensionally accurate, with an exceptional sidewall finish and sharp feature resolution. The parts require little to no hand finishing, resulting in time savings of up to 50%.
Somos® Watershed XC 11122
A clear solution delivering ABS and PBT-like properties for stereolithography. WaterShed Black also available.
Somos® Waterclear
Ideal for applications that require optical clarity.
Somos® Taurus
Excellent surface quality and isotropy for highly detailed parts.
Somos® Evolve
Designed for easy finishing, produce highly detailed parts with the look, feel, and performance of thermoplastic.
Somos® PerFORM
For applications needing strong, stiff, high-heat-resistant composites. Great detail resolution.
Somos® PerFORM Reflect
Ready-to-use material for PIV wind tunnel testing.
Material Matrix
Somos® Watershed XC 11122
Versatile, good all-round polymer, very easy to use.
Somos® WaterShed XC 11122’s ABS and PBT-like properties for stereolithography technology make it a popular resin among designers. Somos® WaterShed produces detailed parts with superior clarity and water resistance, well-suited to fluid flow analysis. The durable, clear parts look and feel similar to an engineered plastic, with a smooth finish that accelerates testing time. The material is strong enough to withstand intense wind tunnel testing, making it an ideal choice for the automotive and aerospace industries.
Key Features
- Easy to use and finish
- Superior moisture resistance
- Exceptional clarity
Somos® WaterShed Black
Versatile, good all-round polymer, very easy to use.
With similar properties and processing to Somos® WaterShed XC 11122, Somos WaterShed Black is a stereolithography resin that produces rigid, tough parts in a true black color, with no need for painting. With its improved formulation, Somos® WaterShed Black has up to a 50% faster processing speed compared to other black SL materials, offering minimal finishing and more consistent processing over time. Somos® WaterShed Black also offers superior moisture and chemical resistance.
Key Features
- Ease-of-use and fast processing with minimal finishing, more consistent processing over time
- Truer black color off the machine
- Based on proven technology of Somos® WaterShed XC 11122
- Smooth surface finish
- Superior moisture and chemical resistance
Somos® WaterClear Ultra 10122
Versatile, easy to use, exceptional clarity.
Somos® WaterClear Ultra 10122 is a low-viscosity material that produces accurate, functional parts that simulate an acrylic appearance, with minimized finishing requirements. The material is ideal for applications that require optical clarity, like fluid flow analysis, master patterns, and concept and functional models. Somos® WaterClear provides refractive values similar to those of the engineered plastics used for functional testing of optical light transmission work.
Key Features
- Extraordinary optical clarity
- Superior moisture resistance
- Easy to use and finish
Somos® Taurus
High heat and toughness, thermoplastic-like performance.
Somos® Taurus delivers excellent surface quality and reduces job times for highly detailed parts and isotropic mechanical properties. Somos® Taurus provides the thermal and mechanical performance that once required thermoplastic 3D printing techniques. The material’s higher heat deflection temperature increases its possible applications. The material’s darker color gives parts an added richness that minimizes part finishing and painting, making it a great choice for the automotive and aerospace industries.
Key Features
- Superior strength and durability
- Wide range of applications
- Excellent surface and large part accuracy
- Heat tolerance up to 90°C
- Thermoplastic-like performance, look and feel
Somos® EvoLVe 128
Very tough and durable with great surface finish.
Somos® EvoLVe 128 is a durable stereolithography material that produces accurate, highly detailed parts and is designed for easy finishing. The material’s look and feel is almost indistinguishable from finished traditional thermoplastics, making it perfect for building parts and prototypes for functional testing applications and resulting in time, money and material savings during product development. Ideal applications include tough, functional prototypes, snap-fits and jigs & fixtures.
Key Features
- Easy to clean & finish
- High strength & durability
- Accurate & dimensionally stable
- High detail
Somos® PerFORM
Very high heat and stiffness, ceramic.
Somos® PerFORM produces strong, stiff, high temperature-resistant composite parts that are ideal for rapid tooling and wind tunnel testing. With the lowest viscosity of any composite stereolithography material, parts made from Somos® PerFORM are faster to build, easier to clean. They also possess superior sidewall quality, with unmatched feature detail. The material’s high heat tolerance, outstanding print resolution and part stiffness make it ideal for high temperature testing, electrical casings and automotive housings.
Key Features
- Excellent detail resolution
- Faster, easier processing & finishing
- Superior high heat tolerance
- Expanded applications
Somos® PerFORM Reflect
Very high heat and stiffness, ceramic, developed for PIV.
Somos® PerFORM Reflect utilizes patented new technology that reduces and can even eliminate the finishing work required by traditional materials. Somos® PerFORM Reflect produces strong, stiff, temperature-resistant composite parts ideal for wind tunnel testing. By eliminating the need for additional PIV coatings, Somos® PerFORM Reflect reduces post-processing by more than 30%. Decreasing the overall lead time per design iteration and allowing customers to conduct iterations faster leads to faster data collection.
Key Features
- Ready-to-use material for PIV wind tunnel testing
- Faster image processing, higher accuracy wind tunnel models
- >30% reduction in post-processing time
- Excellent detail resolution
- Improved surface quality, faster part finishing
- Superior high heat properties
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Available Materials:
Somos® BioClear™
Somos® BioClear is specially developed for medical applications, meeting the requirements for non-implantable limited body contact (less then 24hr) medical and dental applications.
Somos® DMX SL™ 100
Somos® DMX SL™ -100 is a durable and tough stereolithography material that enables production of complex, hollow composite parts in days thanks to a unique and cost-effective ‘dry removal’ process - and all with no compromise...
Somos® Element™
Somos Element was developed in close interaction with customers, pattern makers and foundries for printinginvestment casting patterns. The antimony-free stereolithography material improves the repeatability and quality of 3D printed casting patterns.
Somos® EvoLVe™ 128
Somos® EvoLVe 128 is a durable stereolithography material that produces accurate, highly detailed parts and is designed for easy finishing. Ideal applications include tough, functional prototypes, snap-fits and jigs & fixtures.
Somos® GP Plus™ 14122
Somos GP Plus 14122 is a low viscosity stereolithography resin with an opaque white appearance. This material mirrors production plastics like ABS and PBT, making it an ideal choice for virtually any application.
Somos® Momentum™
Somos Momentum was developed in collaboration with footwear manufacturers to create a solution that prints tools with high accuracy, quality and fine feature detail.
Somos® NeXt™
Somos NeXt provides the accuracy of stereolithography with the look, feel, and performance of a thermoplastic. Somos NeXt is nearly indistinguishable from finished traditional thermoplastics, with the toughness, durability, and accuracy not traditionally seen in stereolithography resins.
Somos® PerFORM
Somos PerFORM is the material of choice for applications that require strong, stiff, high-temperature resistant composite parts. With its excellent high heat tolerance, outstanding detail resolution and stiffness, Somos PerFORM is the ideal material for a variety of applications.
Somos® PerFORM Reflect™
Somos® PerFORM Reflect utilizes patented new technology that reduces and can even eliminate the finishing work required by traditional materials. Somos® PerFORM Reflect produces strong, stiff, temperature-resistant composite parts ideal for wind tunnel testing.
Somos® ProtoGen™ 18420
Somos ProtoGen 18420 is an easy-to-print, ABS-like photopolymer that produces accurate parts ideal for general-purpose applications. It offers superior chemical resistance, a wide processing latitude, and excellent tolerance to a broad range of temperatures and humidity during and after the build.
Somos® ProtoTherm™ 12120
For applications in automotive and aerospace, Somos ProtoTherm 12120 delivers high temperature resistance with exceptional surface finishing and superior dimensional stability, making parts more robust.
Somos® Taurus™
Somos Taurus brings a combination of thermal and mechanical performance that previously was not possible with stereolithography materials. Its robustness combined with a charcoal gray appearance makes it ideal for the most demanding functional prototyping and even end-use applications.
Somos WaterClear® Ultra 10122
Somos® WaterClear Ultra 10122 is a low-viscosity material that produces accurate, functional parts that simulate an acrylic appearance with minimized finishing requirements. The material is ideal for applications that require optical clarity, like fluid flow analysis, master patterns and concept and functional models.
Somos WaterShed® AF
Somos® WaterShed AF is a multi-purpose stereolithography resin that meets the requirements for investment casting patterns as it has been designed without antimony to address sensitivities in the casting of certain specialty alloys.
Somos WaterShed® Black
With similar properties and processing to Somos® WaterShed XC 11122, Somos WaterShed Black is a stereolithography resin that produces rigid, tough parts in a true black color, with no need for painting.
Somos WaterShed® XC 11122
Somos® WaterShed XC 11122’s ABS and PBT-like properties for stereolithography technology make it a popular resin among designers. Somos® WaterShed produces detailed parts with superior clarity and water resistance, well-suited to fluid flow analysis.
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