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A familiar starting point for models, prototypes and everyday prints at room temperature.
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A practical step up from PLA for tougher functional parts. Expect a little more tuning.
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A material to consider for outdoor parts. An enclosed printer is part of the setup.
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For flexible parts such as gaskets, protective covers and vibration mounts.
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For demanding functional parts where toughness and heat tolerance matter.
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A familiar engineering plastic for functional parts, with more demanding printing conditions.
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PLA with a raised melt index and tuned crystallisation so it can be extruded at roughly 24 mm³/s, about 30 % more flow than…
10 product listingsPLA compounded with a chalk-type mineral filler for a diffuse finish; density rises to 1.31–1.38 g/cm³ and flexural strength…
10 product listingsA familiar starting point for models, prototypes and everyday prints at room temperature.
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PLA blended with impact modifiers: notched impact strength rises five- to nine-fold while stiffness and tensile strength fall…
11 product listingsPLA regranulated from post-industrial waste; Prusa's own testing shows mechanical parity with virgin PLA, while colour range…
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PLA with gloss-forming additives; the finish costs elongation at break, which falls to 2.8 %, and layer adhesion, which in…
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PLA with 5–10 wt% chopped carbon fibre: stiffness rises by roughly a third and the surface goes matte black, while tensile…
9 product listingsPLA with 12–20 wt% chopped glass fibre; the Polymaker grade is designed to be annealed, which lifts HDT at 0.45 MPa from 75.5…
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PLA with 2–20 wt% phosphorescent additive; both Bambu Lab and Polymaker require a hardened nozzle, and Bambu Lab rules out the…
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PLA with a blowing agent. Active-foaming grades expand at the nozzle and reach print densities near 0.40 g/cm³ at reduced flow…
4 product listingsPLA loaded with real metal powder to densities of 1.85–4.0 g/cm³; prints are heavy, polishable and slow to lay down, and the…
6 product listingsPLA blended with polyhydroxyalkanoate, a fermented bio-polyester that colorFabb adds to reduce brittleness; elongation at break…
1 product listingPLA filled with stone or mineral powder — up to 40–50 wt% in Formfutura StoneFil — giving a matte mineral surface at densities…
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PLA carrying 10–18 wt% wood powder: it sands and stains like timber, absorbs 1.25 % water — the most of any PLA grade — and…
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Semi-crystalline PET with carbon fibre — a genuinely different material from PETG-CF, reaching 182–205 °C heat deflection but…
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PETG with chopped carbon fibre: stiffness and heat deflection rise — Prusament reaches 96 °C at 0.45 MPa — while impact…
11 product listingsPETG with a conductive filler for static-dissipative parts; Polymaker's data shows surface resistivity moving three orders of…
2 product listingsGlass-fibre reinforced polyester. The best-documented grade, Polymaker's Fiberon PET-GF15, uses a PET matrix with 15 wt% glass…
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A copolyester with more cyclohexanedimethanol than PETG: notched Izod on moulded specimens reaches 93–94 kJ/m² and elongation…
5 product listingsA practical step up from PLA for tougher functional parts. Expect a little more tuning.
21 product listingsPETG regranulated from polyester waste. Prusa's own testing shows a 9 % drop in tensile yield and a 17 % drop in interlayer…
4 product listingsA familiar engineering plastic for functional parts, with more demanding printing conditions.
16 product listingsABS reformulated for lower warping and higher heat: Polymaker's ABS Max reaches Tg 126 °C and 118 °C HDT at 0.45 MPa, against…
4 product listingsABS with chopped carbon fibre: tensile modulus more than doubles to 5210 MPa and warping drops, at the cost of elongation…
7 product listingsABS with a conductive carbon filler bringing surface resistance from above 10¹³ down to 10⁷–10⁹ ohm/sq, the static-dissipative…
4 product listingsABS with a flame-retardant package rated UL 94 V-0 at 1.5 mm on the base resin; the retardant lifts density to 1.18 g/cm³ and…
5 product listingsABS with chopped glass fibre: HDT rises to 99 °C at 0.45 MPa and layer lines blur into a matte finish, while notched Charpy…
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Rubber-toughened polystyrene, used mainly as a break-away or d-limonene-soluble support for ABS and ASA; as a model material it…
3 product listingsA material to consider for outdoor parts. An enclosed printer is part of the setup.
14 product listingsASA with chopped carbon fibre: Young's modulus rises from 2450 to 4200 MPa and HDT from 100 to 110 °C, while notched Charpy…
5 product listingsActive-foaming ASA for lightweight outdoor parts: Formfutura's grade activates near 230 °C, peaks between 270 and 285 °C and…
1 product listingASA with 10–15 wt% glass fibre for stiffness and dimensional stability outdoors; ZYLtech requires a hardened nozzle of 0.6 mm…
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PC with chopped carbon fibre: flexural modulus rises from about 2.1 to 3.5–6.5 GPa and HDT at 1.8 MPa from 93 to 106 °C, and…
6 product listingsPolycarbonate with a conductive filler bringing surface resistance from above 10¹³ into the 10⁷–10⁹ ohm/sq dissipative band…
1 product listingUL 94 V-0 polycarbonate for electrical enclosures; the retardant roughly halves elongation at break to 2.4–3.5 % and, in Bambu…
4 product listingsPolycarbonate with 30 wt% short glass fibre. Owens Corning's XSTRAND GF30-PC is the reference grade: 5400 MPa tensile modulus…
1 product listingA PC/ABS alloy that keeps most of PC's heat resistance while printing closer to ABS; notched Charpy of 25.8 kJ/m² beats both…
5 product listingsFor demanding functional parts where toughness and heat tolerance matter.
9 product listingsBio-based nylon from castor oil, sitting between PA12 and PA6 for moisture. Prusa's grade posts an interlayer adhesion of 32…
1 product listingThe long-chain nylon: fewest amide groups, so the least moisture uptake and the best dimensional stability of the family —…
3 product listingsThe toughest and most abrasion-resistant common nylon, and the most moisture-hungry: it must be printed dry, in an enclosure…
3 product listingsA PA6/66 copolymer that prints more easily than straight PA6. Polymaker publishes full dry and wet printed blocks for it: at…
4 product listingsHigher-melting than PA6 and common as an injection-moulding resin, but effectively absent from the filament market — no…
0 product listingsSemi-aromatic nylon: aromatic diacid units lift the melting point to about 231 °C and the whole family is sold on lower…
1 product listingAramid-reinforced polyamide. No aramid-filled nylon filament was found in any catalogue searched — every aramid filament on the…
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Carbon-fibre nylon on a PA12 matrix, chosen for humidity stability rather than peak strength: 1.5 % equilibrium moisture…
4 product listingsA stiff, reinforced engineering material for brackets, tooling and loaded parts.
6 product listingsStatic-dissipative carbon-filled nylon for electronics tooling. Strong in plane at 84 MPa but only 21.5 MPa in Z — a quarter of…
1 product listingGlass-fibre PA12: 7.8 GPa tensile modulus with 4.5 % elongation at break, nearly double the ductility of glass-filled PA6, and…
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Glass-fibre PA6: modulus to 5.4 GPa and HDT to 191 °C, and the thirstiest material in the whole dataset at 3.33 % equilibrium…
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Long-chain carbon-fibre nylon reaching 194 °C HDT at 0.45 MPa and 170 °C at 1.8 MPa, with saturated moisture uptake of 0.88 % —…
2 product listingsCarbon-fibre semi-aromatic nylon: 10–15 wt% chopped fibre in a PPA matrix reaches 188–227 °C HDT at 0.45 MPa and takes up about…
7 product listingsCarbon-filled hard TPU at 70 Shore D for damping mounts and semi-rigid brackets. Extrudr flags it as the one FLEX grade that…
1 product listingTPU with a blowing agent, sold as varioShore, Filaflex Foamy, TPU-Aero and TPU Air: foaming starts near 230 °C and the printed…
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Below 85 Shore A the filament will not push through anything but a short constrained direct-drive path. Fiberlogy's 81 Shore A…
4 product listingsA styrenic rubber rather than a polyurethane: it needs no drying at all, prints at 260–280 °C and 10–30 mm/s, and trades TPU's…
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Genuinely rubbery TPU at 82–85 Shore A with 650 % elongation and a tensile modulus of 12–22 MPa. Direct drive only, 15–40 mm/s…
6 product listingsFor flexible parts such as gaskets, protective covers and vibration mounts.
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The rigid end of the TPU range at 98 Shore A to 60 Shore D: it prints almost like a rigid filament, runs on Bowden, and posts…
3 product listingsA flexible polyamide blend used in cushioning, footwear and sports equipment.
1 product listingCarbon-fibre polypropylene: HDT jumps to 158 °C at 0.45 MPa while density stays at 0.91 g/cm³, the best stiffness-to-weight in…
3 product listingsGlass-fibre polypropylene: filament tensile yield of 46.6 MPa, more than double the carbon-fibre grade, at the cost of density…
3 product listingsNon-polar, chemically inert and effectively non-hygroscopic. One brand — Spectrum's low-warp HDPE — carries the whole retail…
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The lightest common filament at 0.91 g/cm³ and effectively non-hygroscopic at 0.04 % uptake, with unbeatable living-hinge…
4 product listingsAcrylic filament sold as a transparent alternative to PC. Only one supplier listing was obtainable and it publishes no…
1 product listingThe classic gear and bearing plastic, and still all but absent from the filament market: no POM filament appears in 3DJAKE's…
0 product listingsA fluoropolymer with outstanding chemical and UV resistance at 1.71 g/cm³ and $251/kg. The only material in the dataset with a…
1 product listingPEEK with short carbon or glass fibre. Carbon roughly doubles tensile modulus to 8100 MPa and cuts thermal expansion to about a…
5 product listingsFilled PPS reaches 252 °C heat deflection at 0.45 MPa and Polymaker states its grade needs no heated chamber — the one way into…
5 product listingsThe benchmark high-temperature engineering polymer: 60-100 MPa printed tensile, Tg 143-151 °C, melting 343 °C, UL 94 V-0 and…
5 product listingsThe highest heat deflection in the dataset — 215 °C at 1.8 MPa on printed Stratasys coupons — and the most demanding process: a…
6 product listingsThe aircraft-interior PEI: UL 94 V-0 plus a documented flame, smoke and toxicity pedigree, HDT 178 °C at 0.45 MPa, and the…
6 product listingsAmorphous PEKK avoids PEEK's crystallisation-control problem and prints at a lower chamber temperature. Unfilled grades give…
6 product listingsSemi-crystalline, melting at 280-283 °C, UL 94 V-0 and resistant to essentially every solvent below 200 °C. Unusually ductile…
3 product listingsTg 230 °C, the highest glass transition here, and repeatedly steam-autoclavable — the usual choice for sterilisable tooling…
4 product listingsThe entry point to the sulfones at $250/kg: Tg 185-187 °C against PPSU's 230 °C, but 8 % printed elongation against 3 %, so it…
1 product listingSupport that peels off by hand rather than dissolving, avoiding PVA's moisture handling. Polymaker publishes an adhesion matrix…
4 product listingsA vinyl alcohol copolymer that dissolves faster and in cooler water than straight PVA, and bonds to a wider range of model…
1 product listingBreak-away support compounded to survive a PEEK or PEI build: Tg 225 °C, where PVA and PLA-based supports would decompose.…
4 product listingsThe standard water-soluble support for PLA, TPU, PVB and PETG. At 10.21 % equilibrium water absorption it is by a wide margin…
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PLA loaded with conductive carbon to give volume conductivity rather than the merely dissipative range of ESD grades. The…
4 product listingsIron-filled PLA at about 1.85 g/cm³ that responds to magnets and behaves like pure iron. Slow to print at 20–30 mm/s, brittle…
1 product listingPrints close to PLA and smooths to a layer-free surface with isopropyl alcohol rather than a hot solvent — the only common…
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