A kind of slurry spray solidification shaping method for 3D printing

Abstract

The invention provides a method for curing and shaping slurry spray used for 3D printing and belongs to the field of material preparation of advanced rapid manufacturing. The method is characterized by comprising the steps that first a 3D printer prints a front 'ink' layer according to a 2D contour cross section program graph with prepared 'ink' slurry; then, a sprayer atomizes liquid curing agent into tiny spray beads according to the mass ratio ranging from 0.01% to 2% between the liquid curing agent and powder to be cured, the spray beads fall into the surface of the 'ink' layer uniformly, a solidified layer with the thickness ranging from 1 um to 200 um is formed, and after the front 'ink' layer is cured and shaped, the 3D printer prints a rear 'ink' layer according to the 2D contour cross section program graph; finally, the printing is conducted repeatedly until a part blank is formed through printing. By means of the method, the problems that in the traditional curing agent jet technique, the curing agent is not jetted uniformly, the surface of the 'ink' layer is defective, the jetting time is too long and the parts are prone to 'collapse' are effectively solved, and it is facilitated to print complex parts of large dimensions more conveniently and more rapidly and promote the development of the 3D printing technique.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a method for spraying and solidifying slurry for 3D printing, which belongs to the field of material preparation in advanced rapid manufacturing. Background technique [0002] 3D printing technology is a kind of rapid prototyping technology. The basic forming process is to use layered slicing software to slice the model layeredly along the height direction of the workpiece model to obtain 2D contours of the cross-sections of each layer. After that, the 3D printer follows these 2D The contour cross-section layer deposits materials in layers to form a series of 2D cross-sectional thin surface layers, and then sprays the curing agent to bond the layers to each other, and then prints out the 3D workpiece entity. [0003] 3D printing curing agent injection technology is a process that uses nozzles to spray binders or free radical catalysts on the "ink" layer to cure and shape the "ink" layer. However, in the process of traditional 3...

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Problems solved by technology

[0003] The 3D printing curing agent injection technology is a process that uses a nozzle to spray a binder or a free radical catalyst on the "ink" layer to cure and shape the "ink" layer. However, in the traditional 3D printing curing agent process, the thermal foam nozzle only It can spray water-soluble curing agent that can be evaporated. The nozzle has thermal stress and its life is short. In addition, it has a strong impact on the powder, which makes the surface quality of the printed parts poor.

At present, there are no relevant reports on the use of spray curing and setting methods in the 3D printing process.

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