| HS Code | 370448 |
| Material Type | Photopolymer resin |
| Printing Technology | SLA/DLP |
| Color | Transparent |
| Density | 1.10 g/cm³ |
| Tensile Strength | 58 MPa |
| Tensile Modulus | 2,700 MPa |
| Elongation At Break | 4% |
| Flexural Strength | 95 MPa |
| Flexural Modulus | 2,600 MPa |
| Hardness | 85 Shore D |
| Heat Deflection Temperature | 75 °C |
| Glass Transition Temperature | 85 °C |
| Viscosity | 300 mPa·s |
| Water Absorption | 0.4% |
| Shrinkage | 0.3% |
| Layer Thickness | 25-100 µm |
As an accredited Prodways PLASTCure Model 200 3D Printing Polymer factory, we enforce strict quality protocols—every batch undergoes rigorous testing to ensure consistent efficacy and safety standards.
| Packing | Prodways PLASTCure Model 200 3D Printing Polymer comes in a sealed, light-resistant 1 kg amber plastic bottle with hazard labels. |
| Container Loading (20′ FCL) | 20′ FCL container loading for Prodways PLASTCure Model 200 3D printing polymer, palletized drums securely braced for safe ocean transport. |
| Shipping | Prodways PLASTCure Model 200 3D Printing Polymer is not classified as dangerous goods for transport. Ship as a non-hazardous liquid in sealed, labeled containers. Keep away from heat, direct light, freezing, and ignition sources. No UN number, hazard class, or packing group is required. |
| Storage | Store Prodways PLASTCure Model 200 3D Printing Polymer in its original, tightly closed container in a cool, dry, well-ventilated area away from direct sunlight, heat, sparks, and flames. Keep away from oxidizing agents and incompatible materials. Maintain recommended temperature, typically 15–25 °C, and do not freeze. Follow the safety data sheet and local regulations. Keep out of reach of children. |
| Shelf Life | Shelf life is approximately 12 months when stored sealed in original container at 15–25°C, protected from light, heat, and moisture. |
For a thermoforming tool insert built from PLASTCure Model 200, the controlling process limit is the contact temperature at the photopolymer surface, not the tensile strength of the printed body. Thin-gauge PETG sheet is heated to 110–140 °C before draping, while unfilled acrylate photopolymers commonly begin to distort between 45 °C and 65 °C. A moving-light DLP platform printing the insert with 60–80% solid infill and a 50 μm z-layer must therefore be paired with an actively cooled aluminium sub-plate held at 15–20 °C through a circulating water bath. The photopolymer insert is mounted on a 0.5 mm thermally conductive paste layer to close the air gap; a paste film above 0.8 mm becomes a thermal resistance path and permits the tool surface to exceed its distortion onset within 3–5 forming cycles. Vacuum holes of 0.3–0.5 mm diameter are drilled after printing at a density of 1 hole per 25 cm². The formed blister is a clear PETG packaging prototype with draw depth up to 15 mm and corner wall thickness reduction of 40–60%. A plug assist is omitted because the local compressive stress at the plug contact zone can exceed 2 MPa, producing incremental creep in the photopolymer rather than immediate fracture. Dimensional drift is recorded with a coordinate measuring machine to ISO 10360-2 after every 10 cycles, and the heat deflection temperature of the post-cured resin is measured separately to ISO 75-2:2013. Published process data for this specific photopolymer under production thermoforming conditions remains limited, so the tool should be run for 10 instrumented cycles before committing to a short-run blister programme.
Room-temperature vulcanising silicone tooling fabricated from a photopolymer master requires a defined post-cure sequence to prevent residual acrylate interference with platinum-catalysed hydrosilylation. A master printed from PLASTCure Model 200 at 25–50 μm z-resolution is cleaned in a two-stage 99.9% isopropanol bath, air-dried for 30 min, and then exposed to UV-A at 365 nm with an irradiance of 10–15 mW/cm² for 30–60 min. This step reduces unpolymerised monomer that can migrate into the silicone contact layer and poison the platinum catalyst. The failure signature on the mould cavity is a tacky, uncured gel at the interface; durometer readings to ISO 868 then show local Shore A values 8–15 points below the bulk rubber. The RTV silicone is mixed at a 10:1 base-to-catalyst ratio and degassed at −0.9 bar for 3–5 min before pouring. If inhibition persists, the master is sealed with a sprayed acrylic lacquer or a polyvinyl alcohol release film, and the mould is re-attempted with the same silicone batch to isolate the source. Tooling engineers using this resin for small-batch polyurethane vacuum casting of enclosures and gaskets typically maintain cavity temperature at 35–45 °C during the first hour of rubber cure. Direct compatibility data for PLASTCure Model 200 with the full range of platinum-cure RTV grades is not available; a cure patch test with the specific silicone grade is required before committing to multi-cavity tooling.
Dimensional qualification of snap-fit enclosures printed from PLASTCure Model 200 is performed against the target moulding grade of ABS or polycarbonate. The photopolymer is tested in the green state and after post-cure because residual cure shrinkage can shift a 0.20 mm snap-finger clearance below the ingress allowance. Conditioning per ISO 291:2008 at 23 °C / 50% RH for 48 h separates reversible moisture expansion from irreversible volumetric shrinkage. For unfilled acrylate photopolymers, linear post-cure shrinkage is commonly reported in the range 0.3–0.8%, with the higher end observed when post-cure exceeds 60 °C. PLASTCure Model 200 should be characterised under the printer manufacturer’s post-cure schedule before CAD compensation factors are edited. Snap-fit prototypes for consumer electronics typically require hinge thickness below 1.2 mm and a deflection angle of 8–15° before white-stress morphology appears. Thin-wall bowing is controlled by orienting the part at 15–30° from the build platform and by limiting cross-sectional area per layer. On a moving-light projector with pixel pitch 42 μm or finer, the optical limit defines the minimum x-y feature size independent of the resin. Cyclic snap-fit endurance data for this specific photopolymer are limited; tensile properties to ASTM D638-14 should therefore be used only as a screening value, not as a substitute for prototype hinge cycling.
On a moving assembly line, a locating fixture printed from PLASTCure Model 200 is used to align a 0.8 mm pitch board-to-board connector during manual placement; the fixture must hold centre-to-centre location to ±0.05 mm after 1,000 placement cycles, and this requirement is verified optically with a video measuring machine to ISO 10360-2 rather than by caliper inspection.
When a photopolymer mask is used in place of a machined aluminium spray mask on an automated paint line, the limiting variable is solvent absorption and edge degradation from two-component polyurethane topcoat rather than mechanical wear. The mask is printed from PLASTCure Model 200 at 50 μm layer thickness and sealed with a two-part epoxy sealer or UV-cured hardcoat to reduce solvent uptake. The sealer must withstand methyl isobutyl ketone and xylene wipe cycles; a solvent immersion test in 10% methyl ethyl ketone for 15 min or a solvent wipe per ISO 2812-1:2017 is used to screen the sealer. Mask-to-part contact pressure is held below 0.1 MPa because the photopolymer edge is brittle below 1 mm width. In production, the mask is mounted on a spring-loaded locating fixture with ±0.05 mm repeatability and is replaced after 500–800 paint cycles, when edge chipping increases beyond 0.2 mm. The finished article is an automotive interior trim bezel with a masked two-tone polyurethane coating. Published solvent-immersion data for PLASTCure Model 200 in spray-mask service are limited; qualification should include cross-cut adhesion of the sealer to the photopolymer per ASTM D3359-23 after 24 h solvent immersion.
Copper electroplating of a PLASTCure Model 200 substrate for EMI shielding prototypes begins with mechanical roughening or chemical etching to create interlock, followed by a conductive graphite or silver lacquer applied at 8–12 μm wet film. The acidic copper bath is operated at 20–25 °C and 2–4 A/dm², but the photopolymer surface must remain below 45 °C to prevent dimensional drift. The main failure mode is pinhole formation from hydrogen evolution at the cathode, particularly if the conductive coating is applied below 5 μm wet film. For a shielding enclosure, copper thickness is built to 25–40 μm; coating adhesion is tested by tape pull to ASTM D3359-23, and deposit thickness is verified by X-ray fluorescence to ASTM B568-98(2021). The finished article is an EMI shielding prototype housing for telecommunication electronics. Published plating adhesion data for this specific configuration are limited; a pilot trial on a 100 mm × 100 mm flat coupon should be completed before plating contoured enclosures.
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Prodways PLASTCure Model 200 3D Printing Polymer is supplied as a rigid photosensitive resin for vat photopolymerization platforms used in high-resolution master pattern production. In industrial usage, the material is classed as a modelling-grade resin rather than a burnout-grade investment casting resin. Its primary role is the generation of dimensionally stable positive masters for room-temperature vulcanizing silicone tooling, visual inspection models, and close-tolerance prototypes that require post-cure handling. The product is not formulated as a transparent optical material, nor does it provide the elastomeric recovery of flexible photopolymers. Published data for this specific configuration are limited in certain sub-property classes; therefore, supplier documentation and independent ISO 527-2:2012 and ISO 178:2019 measurements from equivalent unfilled rigid methacrylate photopolymers are used to establish the ranges in this document.
On Prodways MOVINGLight and comparable DLP systems, the resin is processed at a vat conditioning temperature of 22–25 °C. The apparent viscosity under cone-and-plate geometry at 100 s⁻¹ is approximately 250–350 mPa·s, which permits recoat blade travel speeds of 40–80 mm/s at layer thicknesses of 25–50 µm. In unheated machine enclosures, operation below 20 °C produces recoat hesitation and surface drag lines; above 30 °C, thermal dark polymerization can increase viscosity drift and reduce vat life. Production-scale users often maintain the vat at 23±1 °C for builds exceeding 12 h. Bottom layer exposure is typically set at 2–3× the standard layer dose, with 6–8 bottom layers, to control edge curl at the build plate.
Green-state parts are removed from the platform, washed in isopropanol or a validated solvent blend, and then subjected to secondary UV post-cure. The post-cure is most frequently performed at 365–405 nm with a total dose of 4–6 J/cm² per exposed face. After this step, the polymer reaches the mechanical ranges summarized in the table below. The values are representative of supplier documentation and independent laboratory data; they are not a certificate of analysis for a specific lot.
| Property | Representative range | Reference method |
|---|---|---|
| Liquid viscosity at 25 °C | 250–350 mPa·s | ISO 3219 |
| Liquid density | 1.10–1.14 g/cm³ | ISO 1183-1:2019 |
| Tensile strength at break | 42–50 MPa | ISO 527-2:2012 |
| Tensile modulus | 1800–2400 MPa | ISO 527-2:2012 |
| Elongation at break | 4–8% | ISO 527-2:2012 |
| Flexural strength | 60–75 MPa | ISO 178:2019 |
| Flexural modulus | 1900–2300 MPa | ISO 178:2019 |
| Heat deflection temperature at 0.45 MPa | 55–65 °C | ISO 75-2:2013 method B |
| Shore D hardness | 78–82 | ISO 868:2003 |
Thermal conditioning is not mandatory for basic mechanical stabilization, but a supplemental 40 °C treatment for 12 h can reduce residual monomer and raise the observed glass-transition temperature by 3–5 °C relative to a UV-only secondary cure. The material remains below the thermal performance of filled high-temperature resins; continuous service above 45 °C under sustained load may produce creep because the heat deflection temperature approaches the upper use threshold. Dimensional change after full post-cure is usually less than 0.3% in the build plane and less than 0.5% along the z-axis. Unsupported thin walls below 1.0 mm can exhibit measurable curvature when secondary UV exposure is asymmetric or when the part is post-cured on a non-rotating tray.
In RTV silicone tooling, the post-cured master pattern is primed with a solvent-based acrylic primer before silicone pouring to reduce the risk of cure inhibition from residual photopolymer species. The Shore D hardness of 78–82 limits indentation during mold clamping, while the flexural modulus near 2000 MPa supports unsupported spans of 30–50 mm without visible sag. For close-tolerance fit verification, printed layer thickness of 50 µm yields reported z-axis deviation within ±0.15 mm over a 100 mm reference length on calibrated DLP platforms; however, published data for this exact configuration are limited, and the value should be regarded as a process qualification target rather than a guaranteed specification.
Observed production defects on DLP platforms of similar optical configuration include z-axis banding, support side pitting, and build plate edge curl. Z-axis banding is controlled by lowering layer thickness from 100 µm to 50 µm and rotating the part 15–20° from the platform. Support side pitting is reduced by using contact tips of 0.3–0.5 mm diameter and reducing support tip penetration into the part surface. Edge curl at the build plate is mitigated with 6–8 bottom layers at 2–3× the standard exposure dose and by maintaining build platform temperature within 22–25 °C.
Viscosity drift during long unattended builds is a critical control variable. Continuous DLP exposure in an enclosed chamber can raise vat temperature by 3–7 °C over an 8 h build, reducing viscosity and altering the recoat film thickness by several micrometres. In a cold environment below 18 °C, the viscosity may exceed 400 mPa·s, producing incomplete layer coverage and microvoids at the edges of large cross-sections. Production-scale users monitor viscosity with a Brookfield DV2T viscometer at 50 rpm after reconditioning the vat at 23 °C for 2 h. A drift greater than 15% from the initial lot value is typically corrected by replacing or refreshing the resin with fresh material at a mass ratio of 1:4.
In contrast to PLASTCure Cast, which is formulated for low-ash burnout in ceramic shell investment casting at 700–900 °C, PLASTCure Model 200 is not specified for clean burnout. Thermogravimetric ash residue data for Model 200 under ISO 1172 or equivalent methods are not consistently published; therefore, direct investment casting is not recommended unless the user qualifies the burnout cycle for the specific pattern geometry and shell thickness. Compared with PLASTCure Clear, Model 200 lacks the optical clarity and low haze required for light-transmitting prototypes; its neutral surface tone simplifies inspection of undercuts when a contrasting powder is applied. Compared with flexible grades such as PLASTCure Flex, Model 200 is rigid and does not accommodate snap-fit deflections requiring elongation at break above 20%.
Batch-level compliance is documented through the supplier’s safety data sheet and declaration letters. Where the RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU as amended by 2015/863/EU applies, the material is normally accompanied by a declaration covering lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers. The REACH SVHC threshold remains 0.1 wt% per article. Because the liquid resin and the cured printed article may fall under different regulatory categories, end-use classification should be verified before shipment into regulated markets.
| Regulatory area | Reference standard or directive | Typical control status |
|---|---|---|
| RoHS restricted substances | 2011/65/EU as amended by 2015/863/EU | Supplier batch declaration required |
| REACH SVHC threshold | EC 1907/2006 Article 33 | 0.1 wt% per SVHC |
| Biocompatibility for medical use | ISO 10993-1:2018 | Not established for this modelling resin |
| Volatile organic compound content | ISO 11890-2:2020 | Data limited; SDS must be consulted |
Incoming inspection of PLASTCure Model 200 should record lot number, viscosity at 25 °C by ISO 3219, and a benchmark build of a tensile bar or lattice tower before production release. Storage is recommended in opaque containers at 5–30 °C, with opened vats protected from ambient UV and fluorescent room light. Because the uncured resin contains photopolymerizable monomers, contact with amine-based cleaning agents and sulfur-containing tin catalysts must be segregated: amines can initiate premature polymerization in the vat, and sulfur species can inhibit silicone cure at the master pattern surface during RTV mold making.
