Product overview
Spectrum Smart ABS is made for teams that need the practical strength of ABS with fewer of its usual processing difficulties. It balances high impact resistance with practical rigidity and dimensional accuracy for functional components that must hold their shape. Reduced shrinkage and warping compared with standard ABS make demanding parts easier to plan and produce.
Why choose Smart ABS
- Functional toughness: impact resistance and rigidity suit parts exposed to handling, knocks and everyday service.
- Easier ABS workflow: reduced shrinkage and warping help with jobs where conventional ABS can be demanding.
- Strong layer bonding: good interlayer adhesion supports robust functional prints.
- Flexible finishing: printed parts can be sanded, drilled or sawed for fitting and assembly.
Applications for workshops and production
Smart ABS is a practical material for enclosures, guards and protectors, as well as end-use parts that need impact resistance and dimensional accuracy. It also fits tooling, industrial design work and custom components. These uses make it relevant to engineering teams, maintenance workshops, schools and print farms producing repeated functional jobs.
Mechanical post-processing lets you refine holes, edges and mating surfaces after printing. This is useful for installation aids, fixtures and custom parts that need a final adjustment before assembly.
Surface finishing options
For parts where appearance matters, acetone vapour treatment can produce a very smooth surface. Together with sanding and other mechanical methods, this gives you several routes from a printed component to a refined presentation model, cover or finished end-use part. The same material can therefore serve rugged functional geometry and more polished presentation work.