Material
Nylon-Like Resin
Nylon-like resin is an impact-modified photopolymer formulated to mimic nylon's flexibility and toughness, offering meaningfully better durability than standard resin. However, it doesn't fully match the toughness of actual printed nylon.
Manufacturing processes
About
Nylon-like resin is a tough, flexible photopolymer engineered to resemble nylon's characteristic ductility, bending under stress rather than cracking, with noticeably higher elongation and impact resistance than standard resin.
It occupies similar territory to tough resin, and is generally aimed at functional prototypes and mechanical parts that need to survive handling and moderate stress.
It should be noted that resin is a fundamentally different chemistry from true nylon, and even nylon-like formulations tend to be more brittle and less impact-resistant than actual nylon printed via FDM or SLS. Real nylon remains the better choice for parts facing high loads, frequent impacts, or long-term wear.
Nylon-like resin suits functional prototypes, snap-fit parts, and mechanical components where added flexibility and toughness matter more than fine surface detail.
Technical Details
- Accuracy
- ±0.2% (lower limit of ±0.2 mm)
- Density
- 1.15 g/cm³
- Min. wall thickness
- 0.6 - 2.5 mm
Technical Properties
- Tensile strength
- 38 - 65 MPa
- Tensile modulus
- 1500 - 2600 MPa
- Tensile elongation
- 15 - 40%
- Flexural strength
- 60 - 95 MPa
- Flexural modulus
- 1500 - 2500 MPa
- HDT (0.45 MPa)
- 50 - 75°C
- Default layer height
- 0.1 mm
- Default infill
- 100%
- Embossing
- min. 0.3 mm
- Engraving
- min. 0.3 mm
- Interlocking parts
- Yes
- Warping risk
- Low
- Maximum printing dimensions
- 650 × 650 × 650 mm