This means that Xaar’s customers who are looking to develop their own inkjet enabled 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing equipment can benefit from a one-stop-shop approach to initiating a development programme using the very best 3D Printing software and inkjet development starter kit.

Materialise incorporates more than 25 years of 3D printing experience into a range of software solutions and 3D printing services, which together form the backbone of 3D printing technologies, while Xaar delivers leading inkjet technology used in additive manufacturing 3D equipment.  

Proven in industry worldwide, Materialise Magics is a leading data preparation software for Additive Manufacturing. It allows users to make their 3D models printable by mesh repair, advanced mesh editing, advanced mesh enhancement functions and more.

The Materialise Standard Image Build Processor is said to bridge the gap between 3D software and inkjet 3D printing machines. It seamlessly interfaces with Materialise Magics and transforms prepared 3D models to an inkjet machine specific data format. The transformation process is described in build strategy profiles and can easily be adopted to any inkjet 3D Printing technology by a user-friendly profile editor. The Build Processor will allow users to output multi-channel and multi-pass formats enabling the user to build up complex print strategies. The advanced pixel fill methods such as gradient fills and tiling allow the user to fill print areas with whatever pattern they want, resulting in build strategies that bring the best out of the inkjet 3D printer.