FFF Steel

Guide to choosing metals for FFF printing

Metal Fused Filament Fabrication is to date the simplest, and above all accessible, technology to produce real metal parts.
In this guide you will find the main characteristics of the most common metals, paying particular attention to the mechanical and physical in order to select the most appropriate for each application.

Steel

316L
Mechanical Properties
Elastic module 200 GPa
Elongation at break 53%
Shore hardness 128 HV10
Thermal Properties
T. Glass or Vicat Softening Point -
HDT at 1.82 MPa -
Physical properties
Density 7.85 [g/cm3]
Certifications
- -
Features and benefits
  • excellent corrosive resistance
  • temperature stability
  • austenitic
  • non magnetic