Visualize how your 3D printing can be improved if you invest in REALvision Pro 3D printer software
A professional-level software adds value to the entire process. Getting your 3D print to the first 90% is not hard, but getting the last 10% out of your 3D-printed process is where the professional 3D printer software makes the difference.
Are you using open-source slicer software on your expensive 3D printer? We often see the adverse between buying a costly printer and using freeware or open-source software for slicing.
Undoubtedly we are heading towards frictionless additive manufacturing with 3D printing technology. We don’t want to spend hours tweaking the settings to get the best results. It needs to be streamlined, intuitive, and easy-to-use without compromising the freedom of manual adjustment.
Get the most out of your 3D printing workflows
Take a closer look at what our professional 3D printer software can offer:
- Powerful slicing tool allowing for high-quality prints of 3D objects and fast printing using our novel material property-based slicing engine at its finest
- Smart limits help beginners and experts users to stay inside safe settings
- Superior material profile management
- Great intuitive user interface – Visual tooltips that explain different settings
- Complex features wrapped in the simple user interface, such as 3D lattice infills, setting modifiers, and manual support generation
- Extensive features to be exploited by the expert user, including access to more than 150 settings
- Industry-standard first-level support also process related like filament, nozzles, extruder, geometric and 3D printing materials
REALvision Pro has more than 10 years of user-driven development, previously only released as 3D printer manufacturer branded software – Now released for a general license plan.
Speed, quality and strength
REALvision Pro features smart limits in Machine, Material, and Quality settings. That helps you to stay optimized inside the balanced triangle between speed, quality, and strength. Smart settings support the beginner in quickly getting great results without complicating the experience. The expert user can dig into the more than 150 settings to take full advantage of their equipment and hold complete control within smart limits. Taking the technology from prototyping to production with REALvision Pro 3D printer software.
What is under the hood of our 3D printer software?
You will find a fine-tuned three-dimensional engine, which has been undergoing extensive development in close cooperation with a range of sophisticated 3D printer manufacturers and industrial partners.
We are now proud to launch REALvision Pro for general use and let all additive manufacturers enthusiasts benefit from an actual professional 3D printing setup in their product-design.
For 3D printing, balance is an absolute key to success. We want to exploit the 3D printer close to the machine and material limits. Coming from that, we shaped REALvision Pro as a material property-based slicing engine at its finest.
Design your 3D content - smart settings to favor the end result
Material property-based slicing means entering the following information in the software to ensure the smart settings reflect the favored result. The settings are connected in this way:
- Machine settings define the capabilities of the machine and limits material and quality settings.
- The material settings describe how the machine extrudes and deposits material and limits quality settings.
- Quality settings describe production wishes for the part.
Learn some of the terms of 3D the printing process
CAD-CAM
A cad-cam solution is a combination of creating a 3D design, preparing the manufacturing of the part and ultimately automatically manufacturing the part using an FDM 3D printer or a 3D printing service (like Shapeways, or 3Dwarehouse).
CAD / 3D CAD software
CAD stands for Computer-Aided Design, it is the software part of CAD-CAM software where you create 3D models (3D designs) or more precisely create your 3D models (actual 3D geometries), you can use beginner CAD software like Tinkercad, Google Sketchup or more advanced CAD like Autodesk Inventor, using Solidworks, Catia 3DS, Autocad or even parametric CAD design software like Openscad (customizable script based CAD software), Rhino, or Rhino 3D grasshopper. All CAD software can export a CAD file under different file formats, but without a doubt, the most popular one is the STL file format.
CAM / Slicer 3D printing software
CAM software in 3D printing is also most commonly called a slicer.
Slicers are used to create Gcode files which are the print files file-format used by a 3D printer. For beginner and intermediate users, you can use online slicers like the online slicer REALvision online; or for expert users, you can use slicers like Realvision Pro, Cura, Ultimaker Cura, Simplify 3D, Creality slicer or Slic3r. A slicer lets you manipulate the STL and then takes a planar cut or cross-section cut of your STL 3D design and automatically generates the movement instruction of your 3D printer (the toolpath or the pathfinding line) as well as all the repositioning and print strategy of the 3D printer. The filename generated from the slicer or CAM is called a GCODE file and the file format is a .gcode. You can usually simulate the 3D print result by looking at a slicer 3D viewer.
3D printing Services
To print 3D files you can use printing 3D files services such as Shapeways, Materialise (protolab) or Xometry. You can upload your STL files and they will print 3d your file and ship it to you for a fee.
STL files
STL files are three-dimensional geometries CAD files based on a list of triangles defining the wireframe or the outside shell of the 3D object geometry. There are two types of STL files: they can be ASCII and Binary. The binary STL file-format are more size optimized (takes less byte size) while the Ascii STL file-format is human readable (can be opened in a text editor) and defines the tessellation (list of triangles creating the 3D polygon). To define a triangle the STL file format is a list of triangles made from 3 vertex or 3D vectors. Of course, there are a lot of triangles and they are fairly small so those triangles next to each other define the meshes of your STL 3D print file.
GCODE files
Gcode files are the files used for 3D printing. There are two types of Gcode files they can be ASCII or Binary, the Ascii files have bigger file sizes and are human readable, while binary files are not human readable. You can easily preview an Ascii Gcode instruction by opening it in a text editor. The file extension or file format is .gcode and is generated from a CAM software usually named a slicer.
Marketplace
If you are not confident in designing your STL 3D files yourself you can download a lot of STL files for free on websites like Thingiverse or Cult 3D where there are thousands of free STL files to choose from.
3D printers
If you have bought a cheap desktop 3D printer like an FDM printer from Creality but you are not satisfied with the quality of the Creality slicer, then you are not the only one. Historically those printers were sold as kits for 3D printer enthusiasts developing 3D printers themselves such as the RepRap project. Today most 3D printer enthusiasts just want to spend time on printing and not on fixing the 3D printer. This is why slicing and the slicing software are a big part of the success of 3D printing.
Filament
In Fused Filament Deposition technology, also known as Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) or Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), the spool of filament is the material used to build the 3D part by melting the plastic out of the nozzle of the 3D printer. The printer extrudes the filament line by line, layer by layer, by increasing the z-axis, and will build the 3D printed part. The plastic material used for 3D printing prosthetics is often carbon enforced or acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (abs).