xTrude
Print large-scale functional parts at a fraction of the cost of traditional manufacturing and printing methods.
The industry faces huge barriers to adopting and deploying 3D printing for the industrial production of large functional parts, limiting its use to rapid prototyping.
A lack of intelligent process control leads to a reliance on manual trial and error, and makes it impossible to guarantee consistency and repeatability, and limiting your ability to exploit the benefits of sustainable materials.
xTrude is an AI-driven control system for FDM processes that enables the successful printing of large functional parts while dramatically reducing failures such as de-lamination, collapse and distortion.
Outcomes
Dramatically improved part quality and consistency.
Eliminate the need for high-skilled domain experts for tuning via trial and error, enabling wide adoption of large-scale 3D printing.
Highly flexible
Machine-agnostic
Any 3D printing system can be augmented with minimal development, enabling it to produce high quality parts and unlock functional part production at scale.
Material-agnostic
Easily tuned to support multiple polymer types including reinforced polymers.
Case study
Xaba’s design and 3D print fabrication process
A new generation of car chassis enabled by Xaba’s proprietary print process and multi-materials sustainable design.
How it works
Printer Control System
xTrude is composed of an industrial PC integrated directly into a robot’s existing electrical cabinet.
xTrude uses a machine learning model paired with a process control user interface to model the physics of an FDM process. It automatically computes optimum values for dominant process parameters such as flowrate, feedrate, extrusion temperature, bead width & height and layer-to-layer adhesion temperature for every NC block along the entire printing trajectory.
In the news
Your Next Car Could Be 3D-Printed
See how Xaba’s technology enabled the development of the first production-ready 3D printed car chassis.
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