TruPrint 3000 gets laser power increase and integrated cooling for volume production.
Gearing up for this year’s Formnext, TRUMPF has equipped its TruPrint 3000 laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) machine with an integrated cooling system for the build platform and increased the laser power of the two fiber lasers from 500 to 700 watts.
“The TruPrint 3000 is designed for volume production of high-quality parts,” said Roland Spiegelhalder in a press release. Spiegelhadler is product manager for additive manufacturing (AM) at TRUMPF. “Users from all industries, such as the automotive and aerospace industries, will benefit from it.”
According to the company, the integrated cooling system monitors the process area and maintains a constant temperature. This is intended to allow the 3D printer to use the full 700 watts of laser power without overheating the material during the printing process, making it suitable for aluminum alloys, among other materials.
The integrated cooling is also designed to allow the material to cool more quickly. TRUMPF claims this makes components printed on the TruPrint 3000 more durable with a high level of reproducibility, meaning that the machine can print the same part repeatedly with the same quality standard.
By increasing laser power to 700 watts, TRUMPF’s engineers have been able to increase the size of the machine’s two laser spots from 80 to 200 µm, allowing the lasers to process a larger area on the build plate. “This increases the productivity of the system while maintaining the same high part quality,” Spiegelhalder said.
TRUMPF is presenting the 3D printer at Formnext in Frankfurt, Germany this week.
