Which 3Dresyns® material system is right for your application
Which 3Dresyns® material system is right for your application?
This guided page helps identify the most suitable 3Dresyns® material family according to application, performance requirement, manufacturing route and workflow complexity.
Use this page as a fast starting point before moving into deeper technical selection, calibration, validation or ordering.
What does your part, mold, pattern, powder route or material system actually need to do after printing, shaping, curing, debinding, sintering or post-processing?
1. Visual models or general prototypes
This route is appropriate when the printed part is mainly used for visualization, concept validation, basic fit-checking or low-demand prototyping.
- general-purpose materials
- standard SLA / DLP / LCD workflows
- cost-sensitive and fast-start applications
- low mechanical or regulatory demand
2. Functional engineering parts
This route is appropriate when parts must perform mechanically, survive handling, resist stress, maintain dimensional accuracy or deliver real durability.
- Standard: low-demand functional use
- Next-generation: balanced functional performance
- Engineering / thermoplastic-like: higher mechanical demand or lower tolerance for failure
Quick rule for engineering users
If the part is mainly visual, standard materials may be enough. If the part must function, move to next-generation or engineering materials. If failure is not acceptable, use a structured engineering selection route and validate the printed part.
3. Biocompatible and medical-related materials
This route is appropriate when the final application requires controlled biological interaction, extractables management, safety-oriented workflow control or biocompatibility-related validation.
- start from the biocompatible material family
- review IFU and safety / regulatory positioning
- validate processing before drawing conclusions about final safety or performance
4. Dental materials
This route is appropriate for orthodontic, restorative, denture, splint, model and laboratory dental workflows.
- dental models and orthodontic workflows
- guides, splints and rigid or flexible appliances
- gingiva, denture and specialty dental systems
- direct-print aligner workflows when applicable
5. Castable, sacrificial and mold-related materials
This route is appropriate when the printed part is not the final object, but an intermediate used for casting, burnout, sacrificial removal, mold generation or indirect manufacturing.
- investment casting
- sacrificial patterns and soluble structures
- durable and sacrificial molds
- tooling, cavities, channels and indirect AM workflows
6. Ceramics, metals and powder routes
This route is appropriate when the final material target is ceramic, metal, glass, polymer powder or another loaded material system requiring shaping, debinding, sintering or powder-based processing.
- Direct print-to-sinter: when the loaded green body must be printed directly
- Indirect AM: when printed molds or sacrificial structures produce a better manufacturing route
- SLS / Cold Fusion: when the process starts from powders or powder binders
- LMM: when lithography-based metal manufacturing is the selected route
7. Specialty and advanced materials
This route is appropriate when the application requires a specific material behaviour or advanced process outside standard photopolymer logic.
- inkjet and material jetting
- 2PP nano / micro fabrication
- VAM volumetric additive manufacturing
- NIL and UV / EB photoresists
- optics, electronics, conductive, ESD, magnetic, neutron-absorbing or refractive-index materials
Need a simpler starting point?
If you are not yet sure about material categories, start from application-first guidance instead of product-name selection.
If the application is functional, regulated, load-bearing, process-sensitive or technically ambiguous, use a structured selection route instead of choosing only by material label.
Next step in your engineering workflow
Use the links below to move from quick routing to validation and engineering material selection.
Final insight
The right 3Dresyns® material is not defined by what prints fastest or costs least, but by which material system matches the real application, process route and validation requirement.
Application defines the route. Performance defines the final material system.