3D printing transparent resin and acrylic comparison
The differences between3D printedtransparent photosensitive resin and traditional Plexiglas and acrylic are mainly as follows.
Definition
Transparent photosensitive resin: refers to the material used for light-curing rapid prototyping for transparent liquid light-curing resin, mainly composed of zwitterionic, photoinitiator, diluent.
Acrylic, also known as PMMA or Plexiglas, from the English acrylic (acrylic plastic), the chemical name of polymethyl methacrylate. Is an early development of an important plastic polymer material.
The characteristics
Acrylic has good transparency, chemical stability and weather resistance, easy to dye, easy processing, beautiful appearance, in the construction industry has a wide range of applications, its products can usually be divided into casting board, extrusion board and molding plastic.
PMMA
Transparent photosensitive resin is widely used in the hand board parts, product accessories and shells, equipment windows, medical products, architectural models, electronic appliances, aerospace and other industries, because it is not limited by the structure, digital molding, fast delivery, no quantity restrictions, low prices and other advantages, so the past two years in the industry is very hot.
Transparent resin
Traditional acrylic because of its raw material limitations, only can process some simple shape, the requirements are not very high pieces, and its material thickness is basically fixed, so it is also subject to some restrictions, if the processing of some complex objects, the cost is very high, and the cycle is long, the effect is generally. Acrylic transparency and temperature resistance is better than the transparent photosensitive resin, so for some simple pieces, its advantages can also be reflected.
Overall, transparent photosensitive resin in contrast to acrylic, photosensitive resin molding difficulty, molding time, molding prices are lower than acrylic, but for some simple pieces, due to transparency, high temperature index, so acrylic is better than transparent photosensitive resin.
