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Materials Workshop

Confident 3D printing starts with the right materials.

Empower Your Team with Smart Material Selection for Additive Manufacturing

The Materials Workshop from EAC Additive helps teams align material properties with performance requirements by delivering a clear, application-driven understanding of additive manufacturing materials across polymers and composites. This hands-on, expert-led session demystifies the options and empowers engineering and manufacturing teams to make confident, cost-effective decisions.

Who Should Attend?

Ideal participants include design engineers, manufacturing engineers, R&D teams, prototyping and NPI groups—anyone responsible for selecting or validating 3D printed parts. Whether you’re new to additive or scaling into production, understanding materials is essential to AM success.

Why It Matters

Choosing the right material isn't just about mechanical specs. Printability, curing behavior, post-processing compatibility, thermal and mechanical properties, cost, and shelf life all impact your final part. This workshop equips your team with the knowledge to avoid costly mistakes and adopt AM with greater speed and confidence.

Format & Customization

Hands-On, Application-Focused, and Tailored to Your Needs
The workshop is a half-day, in-person session for up to six team members, designed to be interactive and customizable. Participants select four focus modules and two real-world use cases to tailor the content to their exact needs.

Custom Modules. Real Use Cases. Real Parts.
We customize material discussions around your industry, applications, and printer platform. Whether you work in aerospace, medical, consumer goods, or industrial production, we’ll guide you through relevant polymer and composite families, highlight key tradeoffs, and explore how each material performs in your environment. You’ll handle real printed parts—not just review spec sheets—so you can see and feel the results.

Solving Material Challenges

Avoid Costly Errors. Move from Prototypes to Production.
Many teams default to high-performance materials like carbon fiber or high-temp polymers unnecessarily, or choose materials based on brand recognition rather than application fit. Others select unprintable materials or skip validation altogether.

This workshop helps eliminate those mistakes. It introduces proven industrial-grade materials, shows how to evaluate printability and post-processing ease, and helps teams conduct proper cost-performance analysis. The result: lower material waste, faster development cycles, improved part quality, and smarter decisions across the board.

Practical Impact You Can See
Participants leave equipped to standardize material selection, reduce lead times, and confidently move beyond prototyping. Whether optimizing for production, cost, or mechanical durability, you’ll walk away with a roadmap to smarter material decisions.

What Sets EAC Additive Apart

Tailored Content. Real Parts. Real Expertise.
Unlike online courses or general vendor training, EAC Additive’s workshop is grounded in your actual challenges. You’ll explore real materials with your own applications in mind—and receive applied guidance instead of generic overviews.

Thanks to close partnerships with companies like Formlabs and INTAMSYS, we offer early access to new materials, plus direct insights from material scientists. Our team’s expertise spans not only design and printability, but also broader digital thread strategies—including post-processing and DfAM—ensuring every material recommendation fits your ecosystem.

What You'll Leave With

A customizable materials decision framework

A structured tool to help your team confidently choose the right additive materials based on application needs and print requirements.

Quick reference guide tailored to your printers and use cases

A printer-specific cheat sheet highlighting compatible materials and key print considerations for your workflow.

Complete AM Materials slide modules

All core workshop slides provided as a reference for continued learning and team alignment.

Summary notes from live Q&A

A written recap capturing key questions and expert answers discussed during your session.

Curious About Additive? That’s the Perfect Place to Start.

Not sure what materials are best? Start with your application—not the datasheet. We’ll help you weigh total cost, printability, and post-processing factors during a short discovery call. Reach out to the EAC Additive team to get started.

Your AM Questions, Answered

Who is the Materials Workshop designed for?

This session is ideal for design engineers, manufacturing teams, R&D groups, and anyone looking to better understand how to match additive materials to real-world applications.

What can we expect from the format and structure?

It’s a half-day, onsite session for 3–6 participants, featuring a mix of guided learning and hands-on evaluation tailored to your selected materials and printer platforms.

What types of materials are covered?

We focus on polymers and composites relevant to your applications—covering printability, performance, and compatibility across leading AM ecosystems.

How will this workshop help reduce cost or improve part quality?

It teaches you how to choose the right materials for durability, efficiency, and performance—cutting waste, lowering lead times, and improving output.

How do we get started?

Reach out to the EAC Additive team to schedule a discovery call—we’ll assess your goals and configure a workshop that aligns with your needs.

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