Large heated installation space

The 3DGence INDUSTRY F421 is equipped with a powerful actively heated build chamber that can reach 180 ° C. With a patent-pending variable chamber volume solution, the time required to reach working temperature remains minimal. The walls of the chamber are lined with INOX steel to prevent damage and oxidation.

The combination of heated build chamber, suitable extrusion temperatures and heated material chamber ensures that prints made from high-performance polymers such as PEEK or ULTEM™ filaments are always of the best possible quality and achieve the expected nominal mechanical properties without warping or other printing defects.

There is also a nozzle suction sector in the chamber. The F421 no longer relies on mechanical nozzle blocking, but instead uses printhead flushing. A flush cycle takes just 3 seconds.

Construction platforms

The F421 heated bed reaches 180 ° C and offers two options:

Borosilicate glass

Highly universal, mechanically resilient, easy, tool-free removal/replacement. Metal clamp sensor to detect the presence of building boards.

Plastic construction board

Material chutes are continuously heated to 50 ° C. This temperature can be set via the printer interface.

With specific coil geometry, it is possible to mount four 2 kg coils while retaining all functions.

Security

• An electronic lock on the main chamber door, which can also be controlled via cloud service and printer interfaces.
• Sensors for the main chamber door and the upper access hatch
• Redundancy for heat sensors of high-performance heating elements
• Emergency switch - instant power cut-off and heat control system
• System for emergency shutdown of logic
• Software access overdrive - the printer can be shut down remotely .

Filtration

With the focus on high performance thermoplastics, it is becoming increasingly important to provide adequate emissions control. F421 filters offer unparalleled filtration efficiency among FFF AM platforms .

F421 uses an advanced ULT filter unit that can filter the following particles:

• Macro dust
• Nanodust (VOC, UFP)
• solvent
• Steam (harmful gases)
• Foreign particles

UPS and Signal Tower

The F421 can be equipped with a 72 Ah UPS unit. The printer supports all functions during short power outages. The UPS is integrated into the system at a deeper level and monitors the UPS battery life. If the power outage is longer, the printer goes into idle support mode. Printing is paused and only the most important thermal control and logic functions remain. Should power be restored, printing will continue as normal. This dual approach can produce two results:

• Unaffected printer performance during short power outages
• longer battery life in case of prolonged power problems

Additionally, the 3DGence INDUSTRY F421 is equipped with a signal tower that indicates the status of the print. The signal tower makes the machine clearly visible from remote parts of the production facility.

3DGence Cloud

Remote print start, cancel and queue . Full control over job and execution, even on multiple printers.

Real-time monitoring of machine and printing status aggregation and presentation of machine and material consumption statistics access module;

The 3DGence support team can remotely access, diagnose, and provide assistance for file sharing and storage access control, as well as for managing marketing functions.

Live camera feed

Asymmetric encryption for data transmission (RSA)

New motherboard

F340 was based on a proprietary controller - the Titan. With Texas Instruments drivers, it was a superior motherboard at the time of its release. As performance requirements increased, a new controller had to be developed. The system is based on a 32-bit architecture and is highly adaptable and modular. It can support up to 9 stepper drivers, BLDC motors or servos.

The user interface and the entire user interface as well as the cloud services are run by a coprocessor. The main CPU focuses only on machine control. These two processing units run in parallel and do not affect each other's performance, saving enough processing power for instant job control.