Material & Filaments
3D Printing Material Guides
Last Updated: November 19, 2025
ABS
Last Updated: November 19, 2025
Carbon Fiber Nylon/CF-PA
Last Updated: November 19, 2025
Nylon/PA
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PET-G
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PLA/PLA+
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PVA
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TPU
Last Updated: November 19, 2025
About: Carbon Fiber Nylon/CF-PA, A brief introduction.
Last Updated: November 19, 2025CF-PA is based on nylon 6/66 copolymer. Adding 20% carbon fiber greatly enhances the strength, rigidity, and toughness of nylon and can replace metal materials on many occasions. Self-lubricating wear resistance makes it suitable for printing gears; High toughness and impact resistance make it suitable for printing durable parts. High temperature resistance, heat deformation temperature...
About: Nylon, A brief introduction.
Last Updated: November 19, 2025ePA is developed based on nylon 6/66 copolymer; Self-lubricating wear resistance makes it suitable for printing gears; High toughness and impact resistance, with an elongation at break of up to 175%, which can print strong and durable parts with high fracture resistance; Low shrinkage, not easy to warp and crack when printing. Sellingpoint High toughnessHigh impact...
About: PVA, A brief introduction.
Last Updated: November 19, 2025PVA is a water-soluble material that is often used as a support material with no need to add any chemicals or special treatment. Leave the part in a warm water bath to dissolve faster. After dissolution, there is no residue on the model surface with a smooth effect; it can be worked with PLA, TPU,...
About: ABS, A brief introduction.
Last Updated: November 19, 2025ABS plastic is a common material used in 3D printers, as it is cheap, strong, has high stability, and can be post-processed in various ways (sanding, painting, gluing, filling, and chemical smoothing). When being used in a 3D printer, ABS is known to warp due to the shrinkage that occurs while cooling during the printing process. The...
About: PET-G, A brief introduction.
Last Updated: November 19, 2025PETG is a high-performance material with water resistance, chemical resistance, and high toughness. It’s tougher than ABS; The printed product has a translucent and smooth surface. It’s easy to print as PLA without a temperature chamber. Properties: Filament Properties Table 3D PRINTING FILAMENT PETG Density(g/cm3) 1.27 Heat Distortion Temp(℃,0.45MPa) 64 Melt Flow Index(g/10min) 20（250℃/2.16kg) Tensile...
About: TPU, A brief introduction.
Last Updated: November 19, 2025eTPU-95A has good flexibility with a hardness of 95A, easy to print, and can quickly print large, complex and accurate prototypes of elastomer parts; excellent elasticity, printed products are not easy to deform; good flexibility, high tear resistance and wear resistance and cut resistance, sturdiness and durability; high hardness and good resilience, can be used...
About: PLA, A brief introduction.
Last Updated: November 19, 2025PLA is the most widely used plastic filament material in 3D printing. Its low melting point, high strength, low thermal expansion, good layer adhesion, and high heat resistance when annealed make it an ideal material for this purpose. Without annealing, however, PLA has the lowest heat resistance of the common 3D printing plastics. But due to...
Mechanical Properties of PLA
Last Updated: November 19, 2025Please check the below details for Mechanical properties for PLA filament with SI units Tensile strength 41.83 ± 0.63 MPa Elongation at break at 4.07 ± 0.37 mm Young’s modulus 2004.33 ± 62.9 MPa
Material (filament) storage SOP
Last Updated: November 19, 20253D printing filaments are hygroscopic in nature. PLA, Nylon, and PVA are extremely hygroscopic, and storing them in air-tight containers with dessicants is a must. Other filaments also need to be stored in air air-tight container, but can be exposed to atmospheric air for a short duration, but should not be left in the open...
FDM 3D prining materials.
Last Updated: November 19, 20253D printing filament is the raw material used for fused deposition modeling 3D printers. There are various filaments available with different properties, requiring different temperatures to print. Fracktal printers used 1.75mm Dia filament as it is the industry standard. 3mm dia filament is also available in the market, which is not as popular. The table...