MOR Design, a Portuguese design brand, heard about us when searching for a production partner. They had new designs and needed prototyping capabilities. What started as a prototype job evolved into small production batches for different parts. With them, we tested and validated different materials, some being filaments for FDM 3D printing, and others being resins for DLP 3D printing. Two of these products were:
BULB component
This component was invented in the making of a minimalist lamp, without a socket, called BULB. Besides the need to have a good surface finish, it had to present some flexibility. We 3D printed it with a TPU filament, a semi-flexible filament with good mechanical properties, which provided great results and fulfilled the requirements.
This component would be ideal to make through the DLP technology, using a flexible resin. We tried several ones but still haven’t found any with the structural capabilities of TPU FDM printing.
For this reason, we still use these traditional FDM method of printing these days for the production batches of the BULB.
DUPLET
We prototyped this model with the DLP 3D printing technology, due to its high capacity of keeping a smooth surface throughout the entire model. The main challenge was in finding the optimum orientation, so it would achieve the superficial quality required and reduce the time spent in its post processing.
