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Silicone & Rubber Parts Production With 3D Printing

Producing soft or flexible parts in small batches can often be difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. To overcome these limitations, many engineers and manufacturers are now turning to 3D printing to create rapid molds for casting silicone, or even to directly fabricate flexible components.  3D printers provide key advantages like CAD-based design freedom, high precision, fast iteration cycles, and minimal lead times.

THE 3D Printer for Silicone

 

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3D Print Using Real Silicone

Reduce outsourcing and hand-molding of silicone, urethane, and rubber parts. Lynxter and Formlabs  printers and materials offer several routes to create complex, short-run flexible and elastic prototypes—and even end-use parts—in house, in hours.

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Elastic 50A Resin

Soft Flexible Prototypes

  • Wearables (e.g., straps)

  • Compressible buttons

  • Stretchable housings and covers

  • Soft-tissue anatomy models

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SIL-001

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High Performance Silicone

  • Soft Robotics

  • Masking for Surface Treatment

  • Custom Silicone Sealing

  • Protective Bellow

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Elastic 50A Resin

Hard Flexible Prototypes

  • Handles, grips, and overmolds

  • Cushioning, damping, and shock absorption

  • Seals, gaskets, and masks

  • Cartilage, tendon, and ligament anatomy

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SIL-002

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Advanced Silicone Material

  • Custom Protective Parts

  • Functional Prototypes

  • Non Slip Surfaces

  • Custom Silicone Sealing

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Silicone 40A

Soft Flexible Prototypes

  • Production parts

  • Resilient, springy structures

  • Handles and grips

  • Complex gaskets and seals

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PU-001

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Industrial Polyurethane

  • Maintenance Parts

  • Shock Absorbers

  • Manufacturing of Silicone Seals

  • High Performance Covers

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3D Print Moulds to Inject Silicone

Stop waiting weeks for tools to arrive from a service provider or for your CNC machine to free up. With in-house 3D printing, you can create custom jigs and fixtures within a day, run tests, tweak your design, and print again.

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Step 1

Design

Model your mold in CAD. Depending on geometry, choose a compression mold, injection-filled mold, overmold, or eggshell mold.

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Step 2

3D Print

Select the right resin from the materials library and print the mold on a Formlabs SLA printer.

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Step 3

Fill the Mold

Prepare the tool with protective coatings and release, then mix your silicone and fill the mold.

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Step 4

Post-Process

Demold, trim, and finish the silicone part as needed. For full instructions, see the white paper.

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Get Started Producing Silicone Parts with 3D Printing

Connect with a Formlabs Solutions Specialist to begin using 3D printing for silicone and rubber production today.

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