With ABS (and the FDM tech) there are 2 different types of support material. One is a breakaway support, one is a soluble polymer support. That soluble support takes a sodium hydroxide solution to rinse off the support material. That's my guess why the OP let it soak in RO/DI water...
As for what materials you can print... what materials can you name. Just for the Fortus machine I was looking at, there is
ABS-M30
ABSplus-P430
ABS-ESD7
ABS-M30i
ABSi
PC-ABS
PC
PC-ISO
Ultem 9085
PPSF/PPSU
But you can print flexible parts, mold over parts, clear tinted parts (I saw a guy wearing all yellow sunglasses that were entirely 3D printed, lenses included) it's endless and it's going to take over the medical field first (IMO) and then it's just going to grow grow grow after that.
With ABS (and the FDM tech) there are 2 different types of support material. One is a breakaway support, one is a soluble polymer support. That soluble support takes a sodium hydroxide solution to rinse off the support material. That's my guess why the OP let it soak in RO/DI water...
As for what materials you can print... what materials can you name. Just for the Fortus machine I was looking at, there is
ABS-M30
ABSplus-P430
ABS-ESD7
ABS-M30i
ABSi
PC-ABS
PC
PC-ISO
Ultem 9085
PPSF/PPSU
But you can print flexible parts, mold over parts, clear tinted parts (I saw a guy wearing all yellow sunglasses that were entirely 3D printed, lenses included) it's endless and it's going to take over the medical field first (IMO) and then it's just going to grow grow grow after that.
