PLA Transparent FormFutura 1.75 mm 1Kg

FormFutura Transparent PLA is a premium, highly crystalline PLA filament designed for FDM/FFF 3D printers. It offers excellent clarity, light diffusion, and semi-optical transparency. This advanced PLA formulation allows users to fine-tune the visual appearance of printed parts, ranging from high-gloss transparent finishes to subtle semi-matte effects, simply by adjusting print temperature, cooling, and print speed.

When printed at higher temperatures and lower speeds, layer lines visually blend, resulting in smooth, clear surfaces that are ideal for aesthetic, functional, and light-transmitting applications.

Thanks to its optimized material flow properties, FormFutura Transparent PLA enables fast, precise, and reliable 3D printing. This filament delivers outstanding dimensional accuracy and stability, making it easy to print complex geometries and detailed structures with consistent results and minimal defects. FormFutura Transparent PLA is also food contact approved, making it suitable for applications where food safety compliance is required when printed under appropriate conditions.  

Food Contact Approved 

The raw materials used to produce FormFutura Transparent PLA filament are approved for food contact applications in the EU, USA, and China.

• European Union: EC No. 10/2011.
• USA: FDA 21 CFR.
• China: GB 9685-2016 and GB4806.7-2023.

Sustainability 

FormFutura Transparent PLA is made from 100% biobased content according to EN16785-1 and ASTM D6866 regulations. This plant-based thermoplastic is 100% recyclable and fully certified industrially compostable according to EN13432 and ASTM D6400 standards for industrial composting.

Important key features of Transparent PLA

• Highly transparent PLA filament with customizable visual appearance and surface finish.
• Optimized material flow properties for fast and precise 3D printing.
• Food contact safe.
• Compatible with all AMS systems and suitable for high speed printing.
• EU-Made Premium Quality Filament spooled on recycled certified second-life PP spools. 

Suitable applications for Transparent PLA

• 3D Printing light-related parts, such as LED diffusers, light covers, lamp shades, backlit signs and logos, orindicator windows in enclosures.
• Creating Visual inspection parts, like fluid channels and enclosures where you want to monitor movementor flow.
• Printing decorative & aesthetic parts, such as vases, art pieces, lithophanes, trophy parts and displaystands.
• Windows, lenses and covers, such as small viewing windows in enclosures, protective covers forelectronics, camera housings, and instrument covers.  
• Manufacturing educational and prototyping parts, such as anatomy or engineering models, cutawaydesigns printed as one piece, and manufacturing demos. 

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 are 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.

*)When using high speed printing, the above displayed settings will likely need to be adjusted accordingly.

Specifications

Storage and handling

Filament should be stored at room temperature in a dry and dark place with humidity below 15%. Recommended storage temperature is ca. 18-25°C (64.4 -77.0°F). Keep out of moisture, sunlight and direct heat. When stored properly, product has a shelf life of 24 months. To obtain the best parameters of the printed object, it is recommended to dry the material prior to usage and to 3D print it directly from a dry box.

Packaging & Logistics Information

FormFutura Transparent PLA filament is supplied as standard on multiple spool sizes, ranging from 1 kg up to 8 kg, to accommodate different production and printing requirements.