Material
Bronze
Bronze (90% copper, 10% tin) is a harder, more tarnish-resistant alternative to brass with a warm reddish tone, suited to antique-style jewelry, miniatures, and decorative parts.
Manufacturing processes
Lost Wax CastingSLM / DMLS
About
Bronze (90% copper, 10% tin) is a copper-tin alloy with a warm reddish tone and an antique look, harder and stronger than brass and more resistant to tarnish.
Cast bronze typically reaches about 300–550 MPa tensile strength but can be brittle in thin or delicate sections (minimum walls about 0.6–0.8 mm, details about 0.35–0.4 mm).
It is an affordable alternative to precious metals but is not rated as biocompatible.
Bronze is a good option for antique-looking jewelry, miniatures, sculptures, and test pieces before committing to gold or silver.
Technical Details
- Accuracy
- ±0.3% (lower limit of ±0.3 mm)
- Density
- 8.78 g/cm³
- Min. wall thickness
- 1 mm
Technical Properties
- Tensile strength
- 300 - 661 MPa
- Tensile modulus
- 90000 - 120000 MPa
- Tensile elongation
- 7 - 62%
- Flexural modulus
- 90000 - 120000 MPa
- HDT (0.45 MPa)
- 300 - 350°C
- Default layer height
- 0.025 mm
- Default infill
- 100%
- Embossing
- min. 0.5 mm
- Engraving
- min. 0.5 mm
- Interlocking parts
- Yes
- Warping risk
- Yes, for parts over 140mm or parts with thin long structures
- Maximum printing dimensions
- 380 × 380 × 350 mm