Material
Carbon Fiber PLA
Carbon Fiber PLA is a reinforced composite that significantly increases stiffness and dimensional stability over standard PLA, though this comes at the cost of increased brittleness.
Manufacturing processes
About
Carbon Fiber PLA blends standard PLA with chopped carbon fiber, substantially increasing stiffness and dimensional stability. Parts hold their shape and resist bending under load far better than standard PLA, with minimal warping during cooling.
This comes at a real cost to toughness: Standard PLA is already relatively brittle, and carbon fiber reinforcement makes it more so, since the rigid fibers don't stretch or absorb impact energy the way the polymer alone can, making cracks more likely under sudden impact.
Heat resistance sees only a modest improvement, and it is still well below true heat-resistant options like ABS, ASA, or nylon composites.
Carbon Fiber PLA suits drone frames, mounting brackets, tooling, and structural housings that need to hold a precise shape under load without significant flexing or impact.
Technical Details
- Accuracy
- ±0.3% (lower limit of ±0.2 mm)
- Density
- 1.24 g/cm³
- Min. wall thickness
- 1 mm
Technical Properties
- Tensile strength
- 38 - 65 MPa
- Tensile modulus
- 4800 - 5500 MPa
- Tensile elongation
- 2 - 10%
- Flexural strength
- 64 - 80 MPa
- Flexural modulus
- 3500 - 5500 MPa
- HDT (0.45 MPa)
- 50 - 70°C
- Default layer height
- 0.2 mm
- Default infill
- 20%
- Embossing
- min. 0.4 mm
- Engraving
- min. 0.4 mm
- Interlocking parts
- Yes
- Warping risk
- Low
- Maximum printing dimensions
- 750 × 780 × 950 mm