BOFA Enables Users to 3D Print Their Own Fume Extraction System Connectors
The company decided to make the ‘print your own connectors’ available in response to customer requests to improve ease of connectivity with BOFA’s extraction systems.
BOFA three spigot connections 3D view. Photo Credit: BOFA
BOFA, a 3D printing filtration specialist, has made .STEP files available to download via its website so manufacturers and end-users can print their own connector for a 3D PrintPRO 2, 3 or 4 extraction unit.
The company says manufacturers can easily attach an atmosphere and air management system to a 3D printer to print the connector themselves. BOFA recommends using PLA as the feed material because of its durability and ready availability. The .STEP files can be downloaded via the BOFA website’s “Print Your Own” section.
Current options for connectors are available for 3D printers with exhaust fans. Before downloading, users need to measure the outer dimensions of the fan or fan housing on their 3D printer and then select the appropriate file.
“We decided to make ‘print your own connectors’ available in response to customer requests to improve ease of connectivity with our extraction systems,” says Shravya Nahar, BOFA product manager. “With such a wide variety of designs for 3D printers available, we wanted to create an easily accessible library of on-demand parts for all attachment possibilities, starting with the most common connection point — exhaust fans.”
For those who do not have exhaust fans on their 3D printer, BOFA is developing more connection options which will be available very soon.
- Learn more about BOFA’s 3D printing filtration and atmosphere management technology, which focuses on the filtration of emissions and the control of high-temperature processes through airflow management to optimize product quality and productivity in a 3D printing environment.
- Read about BOFA Americas’ collaboration with Wurth Additive Group to enable the integration of BOFA filtration systems with AM systems supplied by Würth.
- Get more insight into BOFA Americas’s technology for the 3D PrintPRO HT, which features a 3D print fume and particulate filtration system designed for higher temperature additive manufacturing processes.
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