Material
SLS/MJF Glass-Filled Nylon PA12
Glass-filled nylon PA12 is a stiff, dimensionally stable PA12 with higher heat deflection than standard nylon. It is suited to rigid functional parts, though it is more brittle.
Manufacturing processes
MJF
About
Glass-filled nylon PA12 is standard PA12 mixed with glass beads, typically 30–40% by weight. The glass roughly doubles stiffness and improves dimensional stability and heat deflection (roughly 160–180 °C under light load, which is not a continuous-use rating). Tensile strength stays similar to standard PA12, but elongation drops from roughly 20% to under 10%, so it handles impact poorly and thin walls or fine features break more easily.
Glass-filled nylon PA12 is a strong choice for rigid enclosures, housings, fixtures, and tooling.
Technical Details
- Accuracy
- ±0.3% (lower limit of ±0.3 mm)
- Density
- 1.3 g/cm³
- Min. wall thickness
- 0.8 mm
Technical Properties
- Tensile strength
- 30 - 48 MPa
- Tensile modulus
- 2997 - 4068 MPa
- Tensile elongation
- 2 - 8%
- Flexural strength
- 37 - 73 MPa
- Flexural modulus
- 2600 - 3106 MPa
- HDT (0.45 MPa)
- 157 - 179°C
- Default layer height
- 0.1 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
- 450 × 450 × 450 mm