Silicon Carbide Filamet™

Overview

Create extreme-hardness ceramic parts using any open-architecture FFF/FDM 3D printer—achieving wear resistance, thermal stability, and complex geometries in silicon carbide previously requiring expensive machining or pressing. With 63–68% silicon carbide content, Filamet™ SiC prints like PLA and sinters to real ceramic.

Spools: 1.75mm and 2.85mm diameters in 0.5kg and 1kg weights

Works with virtually any open-architecture 3D printer—no proprietary hardware or specialized equipment required. Also compatible with 3D printing pens.

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After printing, your part can be fired in a furnace to become 100% ceramic .

👉 Sintering trials for this material have not been conducted by The Virtual Foundry. Community sintering development is available in our Discord server here .

👉 We are unable to offer any debinding and sintering support for this filament.

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All print just like PLA on most open-architecture 3D printers.

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Working on an advanced manufacturing, aerospace, or semiconductor program?

Highlights

• Print with a 0.6mm hardened steel, standard flow nozzle
• Prints similar to PLA
• Minimal to no warping
• Ensure the filament feeds straight into the extruder
• Less hygroscopic than PLA Do not dry this filament—drying will degrade the binder
• Abrasive and wear-resistant ceramic components
• Cemented carbide tooling prototypes and inserts
• Microwave concentrators and susceptor components
• High-temperature structural and refractory parts
• Semiconductor processing components and fixtures
• Power electronics substrates and thermal management
• Aerospace thermal protection and high-temperature research