PLA MetalFil FormFutura 1.75 mm 750g

MetalFil - Classic Copper

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MetalFil Classic Copper is filled with approximately +/-60% copper powder. The high bronze content in MetalFil Classic Copper makes 3D printed objects nearly indistinguishable from genuine bronze casted objects. MetalFil Classic Copper can be post-processed by polishing or with various patina/rust effects.

MetalFil Classic Copper is a PLA (polylactic acid) composite filament. 

Unique features

• Very high copper-filling of +/- 60%
• Real copper look, heavyweight, and “cold” copper metal feel
• Approximately 300% heavier than PLA (density of 3.4 g/cc)
• Compatible with full metal, PEEK, and PFTE hotends
• Compatible with direct drive and Bowden style extruders
• Compatible with ≥ 0.6mm hardened nozzles with retraction settings enabled
• Easy to post-process
• MetalFil can be brushed, sanded, polished, waxed, coated and patina post-processed

Applications

• Aesthetics, design, and art
• Figurines and miniatures

General printing guidelines *

*) Above displayed settings are meant as guidance to find your optimal print settings. These ranges in settings should work for most printers, but please do feel free to experiment outside these ranges if you think it is suitable for your printer. There is a lot of different type of printers, hot-ends and printer offsets that it is extremely difficult to give an overall one-size-fits-all setting.

*) If blobs/lumps form around the nozzle then your print temperature is too high.

Post processing MetalFil – Classic Copper

Brushing and/or sand grinding

Once printed MetalFil – Classic Copper objects can very easily be brushed with a brass brush or sanded with fine-grit sandpaper. By brushing and/or sand grinding your printed object you will brush/shine up the high concentration of copper powders.

Build-in white polish feature

After being brushed and/or sanded MetalFil – Classic Copper will reveal its white polish feature. A very thin white layer/haze on your object will now allow you to easily polish your 3D print into a beautiful copper object.

Professional polishing with a rotary tumbler

Post-processing a MetalFil – Classic Copper 3D printed object with a rotary tumbler will make your FDM 3D printed object indistinguishable from genuine copper casted objects.

Patina post-processing

You can create several patina effects on MetalFil – Classic Copper printed objects in just one day time. With an ammonia and soda treatment you can for instance easily create a beautiful ancient green/blue weathering effect on your copper object.

Waxing and coating

After every above-mentioned post-processing measure, you can always wax or coat your printed object to get an incredible shine effect. Waxing can be done with products such as beeswax and for coating one can think about products such as XTC-3D.

MetalFil - Brass

MetalFil ‐ Brass is a metal‐filled PLA‐based filament with approximately 60% of gravimetric brass filling. This incredible high filling with brass powders enables every FDM 3D printer user to 3D print brass objects which are almost indistinguishable from genuine brass casted objects. The material is easy to print and can be printed on full metal, PEEK, and PFTE hotends and can perfectly be printed with ≥ 0.6mm nozzles with retraction settings enabled on both direct drive extruders, as well as on Bowden style extruders, which is a truly unique feature for a metal‐filled filament. MetalFil Brass printed objects are extremely easy to polish.

Unique features

• Very high brass-filling of +/-60% (gravimetrically)
• Real brass look, heavyweight, and “cold” brass metal feel
• Approximately 300% heavier than PLA (density of 3.5 g/cc)
• Compatible with full metal, PEEK, and PFTE hotends
• Compatible with direct drive and Bowden style extruders
• Compatible with ≥ 0.6mm hardened nozzles with retraction settings enabled
• Easy to post-process

Applications

• Aesthetics, design, and art
• Figurines and miniatures

General printing guidelines *

*) Above displayed settings are meant as guidance to find your optimal print settings. These ranges in settings should work for most printers, but please do feel free to experiment outside these ranges if you think it is suitable for your printer. There is a lot of different type of printers, hot-ends and printer offset that it is extremely difficult to give an overall one-size-fits-all setting.

*) If blobs/lumps form around the nozzle then your print temperature is too high.

Abrasiveness

Please be aware that MetalFil filaments contain a very high concentration of metal powders, which have an abrasive nature. In general, these metal powders will accelerate the nozzle-wear of brass nozzles, much faster than unfilled filaments. We recommend using nozzles from stainless steel or other hardened alloys.

Nozzle cleaning

When printing with filled/composite filaments it is recommended to clean your nozzle immediately after printing by feeding 15-20cm PLA filament through your nozzle. This will make sure that any potential fillers are flown out of your nozzle. It is even better to use glow in the dark PLA as the extremely hard phosphorous particles are much more likely to scrape out residual waste from your nozzle.

MetalFil - Ancient Bronze

MetalFil Ancient Bronze is filled with approximately +/-60% bronze powder. The high bronze content in MetalFil Ancient Bronze makes 3D printed objects nearly indistinguishable from genuine bronze casted objects. MetalFil Ancient Bronze can be post-processed by polishing or with various patina/rust effects.

MetalFil Ancient Bronze is a PLA (polylactic acid) composite filament.

Unique features

• Very high bronze-filling of +/- 60% (gravimetrically)
• Real bronze look, heavyweight, and “cold” bronze metal feel
• Approximately 300% heavier than PLA (density of 3.5 g/cc)
• Compatible with full metal, PEEK, and PFTE hotends
• Compatible with direct drive and Bowden style extruders
• Compatible with ≥ 0.6mm hardened nozzles with retraction settings enabled
• Easy to post-process
• MetalFil can be brushed, sanded, polished, waxed, coated and patina post-processed

Applications

• Aesthetics, design, and art
• Figurines and miniatures

General printing guidelines *

*) Above displayed settings are meant as guidance to find your optimal print settings. These ranges in settings should work for most printers, but please do feel free to experiment outside these ranges if you think it is suitable for your printer. There is a lot of different type of printers, hot-ends and printer offset that it is extremely difficult to give an overall one-size-fits-all setting.

*) If blobs/lumps form around the nozzle then your print temperature is too high.

Post processing MetalFil – Ancient Bronze

Brushing and/or sand grinding

Once printed MetalFil – Ancient Bronze objects can very easily be brushed with a brass brush or sanded with a fine-grid sandpaper. By brushing and/or sand grinding your printed object you will brush/shine up the high concentration of bronze powders.

Build-in white polish feature

After being brushed and/or sanded MetalFil – Ancient Bronze will reveal its white polish feature. A very thin white layer/haze on your object will now allow you to easily polish your 3D print into a beautiful bronze object.

Professional polishing with a rotary tumbler

Post-processing a MetalFil – Ancient Bronze 3D printed object with a rotary tumbler will make your FDM 3D printed object indistinguishable from genuine bronze casted objects.

Patina post-processing

You can create several patina effects on MetalFil – Ancient Bronze printed objects in just one day time. With an ammonia and soda treatment you can for instance easily create a beautiful ancient blue weathering effect on your bronze object.

Waxing and coating

After every above-mentioned post-processing measure, you can always wax or coat your printed object to get an incredible shine effect. Waxing can be done with products such as beeswax and for coating one can think about products such as XTC-3D.

Abrasiveness

Please be aware that MetalFil filaments contain a very high concentration of metal powders, which have an abrasive nature. In general, these metal powders will accelerate the nozzle-wear of brass nozzles, much faster than unfilled filaments. We recommend using nozzles from stainless steel or other hardened alloys.

Nozzle cleaning

When printing with filled/composite filaments it is recommended to clean your nozzle immediately after printing by feeding 15-20cm PLA filament through your nozzle. This will make sure that any potential fillers are flown out of your nozzle. It is even better to use glow in the dark PLA as the extremely hard phosphorous particles are much more likely to scrape out residual waste from your nozzle.