Producing Models - Stratasys J850 Manual

J850/J835 printers offer the following options:
• You can streamline and economize the process of producing models.
❒ Printing models made from different materials on the same build tray
("mixed tray"), in the same print job, eliminates the time-consuming
need and expense of loading another material, flushing the system, and
sending a separate job to be printed.
❒ Alternating print jobs that use any of the Model materials (or material
combinations) loaded similarly does not require material
replacement—again, saving time and expense.
• You can print objects with combinations of basic materials (digital
materials), enabling you to choose from a wide range of possible
mechanical properties—from flexible to rigid.
• You can print parts (shells) of the same model—simultaneously—with
different materials (or material combinations)
• You can print objects that have a "coating" made from a different material
than the main part of the object.
• You can mix any combination of base materials, resulting in an extremely
wide range of available colors.
• If you designate colors for parts of a model at the design stage (with CAD
software) and save the model as a VRML file, the parts are automatically
assigned appropriate material combinations in GrabCAD Print for printing
the model with the desired colors.
• You can choose the preferred Support material for your needs.
GrabCAD Print supports many 3D CAD file formats, eliminating the need to
convert them to STL files. GrabCAD Print also automatically repairs damaged
files before sending them to the printer.