Fortus 250mc combines affordability of a Dimension 3D printer with flexibility of a Fortus production system, bringing Direct Digital Manufacturing to Australian manufacturers.

Stratasys, the world’s leader manufacturer of additive manufacturing systems has introduced the Fortus 250mc(TM) Production 3D Printer - a rapid prototyping and production machine designed to give users the convenience of a Dimension 3D Printer with the flexibility of a Fortus Production 3D Printers.

The Fortus 250mc, the company's first cross-over system, combines the ease-of-use and affordability of Stratasys' industry-leading Dimension 3D Printers with the control of Insight Software, used to drive the Fortus line of production 3D printers. With Insight, users will have added control of build speed, part accuracy, and feature detail. Like all Stratasys additive manufacturing systems, the Fortus 250mc is based on the Fused deposition modelling (FDM) process.

...says Tasman Machinery’s Matt Minio. "Users are moving beyond prototyping into production with their additive manufacturing machines. The most common manufacturing application is to build functioning manufacturing tools, like jigs and fixtures to be used in the production process."

The Fortus 250mc has a 254 x 254 x 305 mm build envelope and offers three build layer options: 0.178, 0.254 and 0.330 mm. To create parts, the machine uses ABSplus thermoplastic, which offers excellent mechanical proprieties, including impact strength, tensile strength, flexural strength, and bonding strength for tough, functional applications. ABSplus comes in ivory, white, blue, fluorescent yellow, black, red, nectarine, olive green and grey colours.

The Fortus 250mc uses Stratasys SR-30 soluble support material, which has a faster dissolve time than other soluble support materials.

Matt Minio, of Tasman Machinery, believes the Fortus 250mc will hasten the use of 3D Printers in Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) applications.

“DDM is fast being acknowledged as the way forward for manufacturers in the 21st century. With Stratasys introducing the Fortus 250mc they are allowing many customers who previously understood the potential of DDM, to dip their toes in the water, so to speak. It will allow customers to really gain an appreciation of what they can achieve, and allow them to forge ahead into this exciting new frontier for manufacturing in Australia.” 

Tasman Machinery is the sole distributor for Stratasys in Australia and New Zealand.

Fortus 3D Production Systems are revolutionizing the way companies are approaching manufacturing, toolmaking, and product design in the 21st century.

The age of Direct Digital Manufacturing has arrived with Fortus 3D Production Systems. Providing users the ability to produce end user and manufacturing tools without the need for traditional tooling or CNC machining the game has changed forever!

Whether you are requiring a short run of products, a jig or fixture, plastics processing tool, or a replacement part, Fortus 3D Production Systems can provide the answer that was previously not available.

Many of the world’s leading industrial companies, from aerospace through to agricultural; medical through to automotive; consumer goods through to research organizations are using Fortus 3D Production Systems to develop new products and provide their customers with solutions that previously were thought too difficult or costly.

Fortus 3D Production Systems offer a wide variety of plastic materials from medical grades through to general purpose polycarbonates, through to aerospace approved ULTEM.

Combining these wide ranging materials with high speed processing, and large build envelopes the age of Direct Digital Manufacturing has now arrived!