{"id":4327,"date":"2021-01-29T21:13:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/?post_type=materials-new&#038;p=4327"},"modified":"2025-06-20T07:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T11:05:36","slug":"steel","status":"publish","type":"materials","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/materials\/steel","title":{"rendered":"Steel &#8211; 3D Printing Material"},"featured_media":5124,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[],"material_technology":[],"class_list":["post-4327","materials","type-materials","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cta":"contact","material_type":"60% Stainless Steel \/ 40% Bronze Matrix Material","application":"Tools & Accessories, Dice, Home Decor, Small Sculptures","features":"","images":[4330,6500,6498,6497],"about":"<span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Steel is an affordable and strong metal that is well-suited for consumer products both small and large with an industrial look and feel. It's printed using a binder jetting process and is later infused with bronze, creating a material that is 60% steel and 40% bronze and can range in color from a silver gray to reddish bronze. It is strong enough for metal parts like bottle openers and dice, but is not recommended for industrial load bearing applications.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:769,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}\">Steel is an affordable and strong metal that is well-suited for consumer products both small and large with an industrial look and feel. It's printed using a binder jetting process and is later infused with bronze, creating a material that is 60% steel and 40% bronze and can range in color from a silver gray to reddish bronze. It is strong enough for metal parts like bottle openers and dice, but is not recommended for industrial load bearing applications. More information about this material can be found in our <a href=\"https:\/\/support.shapeways.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/1500004174101-Steel\">Help Center<\/a>.\r\n<\/span>","color_finishes":[{"colorplate":5734,"colorname":"Bronze","colordescription":"This finish gives the material a brown antique bronze look"},{"colorplate":5739,"colorname":"Bronzed-Silver","colordescription":"A metallic silvery color with a bronze tint"},{"colorplate":5738,"colorname":"Black","colordescription":"The black finish gives the material a dark gray to black look"}],"finishes_extra":[{"title":"Matte","description":"Unpolished for a rough surface and matte finish."},{"title":"Polished","description":"Parts are polished until shiny and smooth. Note: Internal detail can not be polished, well-reachable surfaces will be polished therefore tight internal spaces may remain unpolished. Products larger than 150 x 150 x 150 mm and products with particularly thin features or details will undergo bead blasting instead of the regular polishing process in order to avoid breakage. This may lead to a rougher and less consistent finish than usual.  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Any part with sprues will be rejected. Since sprues are inherently thin by design, Bronze will not be able to be infiltrated between parts that are sprued and the model will fail in production."},"parts":{"interlocking":"No","enclosed":"No"},"parts_multiple":"","parts_in_file":{"max":"Up to 250"},"accuracy":{"accuracy":"\u00b15%  The bronze infiltration of each steel part makes this material less dimensionally accurate than other Shapeways materials. Shrinkage is more prevalent, especially on small holes and inner diameters. Accuracy and tolerance can vary greatly depending on the model, and are hard to predict because they are so geometry specific. A 5% deviation on a ring is around 1 US ring size. 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