{"id":19188,"date":"2026-10-22T19:28:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/enx\/?page_id=19188"},"modified":"2026-10-22T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:30:19","slug":"available-3d-printing-materials","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/enx\/available-3d-printing-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Available 3D Printing Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>IDEA Lab 3D printing Materials<\/h2>\n<p>The IDEA Lab maintains a collection of filaments and resins in support of a wide array of projects.<\/p>\n<p>The IDEA Lab requires that our own filament and resins be used for 3D print submissions.\u00a0 We do take requests for new types of materials.\u00a0 IDEA Lab staff will evaluate feasibility of new materials requests on a case-by-case basis.\u00a0 Special materials requests will delay print completion times.<\/p>\n<p>To submit a request for something not listed below, please fill out the form located here: <a href=\"https:\/\/help.uillinois.edu\/TDClient\/42\/UIUC\/Requests\/TicketRequests\/NewForm?ID=311&amp;RequestorType=ServiceOffering\">IDEA Lab Special Request Form.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Materials Available for 3D Print requests<\/h3>\n<h4>Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) filaments<\/h4>\n<h5>PLA (Default option, always available)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.bblcdn.com\/s1\/default\/58b85d0f3db94878854a28fdb8a0006e\/Bambu_PLA_Basic_Technical_Data_Sheet.pdf\">PLA Basic Technical Data Sheet<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Black<\/p>\n<p>White<\/p>\n<p>Gray<\/p>\n<p>Red<\/p>\n<p>Orange<\/p>\n<p>Yellow<\/p>\n<p>Green<\/p>\n<p>Blue<\/p>\n<p>Purple<\/p>\n<h5>PLA Metallics (Stock variable, inquire in 3D print request for current availability)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.bblcdn.com\/c6c28a13ba294c6f9fe62755ec9188fa.pdf\">PLA Metal Technical Data Sheet<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Silver<\/p>\n<p>Gold<\/p>\n<p>Copper Brown Metallic<\/p>\n<p>Iron Gray Metallic<\/p>\n<p>Oxide Green Metallic<\/p>\n<p>Cobalt Blue Metallic<\/p>\n<h5>PLA Glow (Stock variable, inquire in 3D print request for current availability)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.bblcdn.com\/cd34cf072d14484bbf027290d16abe9b.pdf\">PLA Glow Technical Data Sheet<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Glow in the Dark Green<\/p>\n<p>Glow in the Dark Blue<\/p>\n<h5>ABS (always available) <a href=\"https:\/\/store.bblcdn.com\/s7\/default\/23b4cf2b83d5470bb96d19970b5f3ae8\/Bambu_ABS_Technical_Data_Sheet_V3.pdf\">ABS Technical Data Sheet<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Black<\/p>\n<p>White<\/p>\n<p>Gray<\/p>\n<h5>PETG (always available)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.bblcdn.com\/s1\/default\/cb94589bf7994fdcbfa833badefae9cd\/Bambu_PETG_Basic_Technical_Data_Sheet.pdf\">PETG Technical Data sheet<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Black<\/p>\n<p>White<\/p>\n<p>Gray<\/p>\n<h5>Polycarbonate (Stock variable, inquire in 3D print request for current availability)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.bblcdn.com\/a52afdccddfd448583d119587122c8c5.pdf\">Polycarbonate Technical Data Sheet<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>White<\/p>\n<h5>TPU for AMS (Stock variable, inquire in 3D print request for current availability)\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/store.bblcdn.com\/s5\/default\/0a98353dce6d486ca848b21d2b19a207.pdf\">TPU for AMS Technical Data Sheet<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Black<\/p>\n<h4>SLA Resin<\/h4>\n<p>We use water-washable resin on our SLA 3D printers.\u00a0 Specific model can be seen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.elegoo.com\/collections\/resin\/products\/elegoo-water-washable-resin-v-2-0?_su_rec=Iw6dK4c2RrGDWlFlKS_-czmxJW0sNGBSeqF3HkzH8fdIi75Gx12h4YTnbdsr1OAwTlewlr1umZPj3k4faMujStq-PtMGGJ44fY5h-yDQm2UdQP19BiXIRQJf0z7zDXQQsOmL8_vszdBcyLythEQysiD6FTXa6IuJaEF_KMu2Q0roadebubIs9drkr5RXYhWviHaJelMCS7qoOoY0HxpatQ6fq5U_jsCPBMSZmjluYdhJU8cU5vYQ5HvRPeTHc6UHzSHLywzAr19xD139IeXpMMp-Tn8NsH5MB5CtJjb5TSLs28i6A_EsMGORiKCQyK1LYQipIw&amp;_su_rec_id=2f217cd5-3089-4928-aae7-469e10a56f20-1792691216\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ceramic Gray<\/p>\n<p>Translucent Blue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDEA Lab 3D printing Materials The IDEA Lab maintains a collection of filaments and resins in support of a wide array of projects. The IDEA Lab requires that our own filament and resins be used for 3D print submissions.\u00a0 We do take requests for new types of materials.\u00a0 IDEA Lab staff will evaluate feasibility of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":816,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19188","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/enx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/enx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/enx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/enx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/enx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/enx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19190,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/enx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19188\/revisions\/19190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/enx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}