Stratasys Sets New Standards for Realism, Color and Speed in Rapid Prototyping With Next-Generation Polyjet 3D Printers

Backed by GrabCAD Print, J750 and J735 3D Printers deliver realistic
prototypes at speeds 5X – 10X faster and more cost effective than
traditional methods – speeding time-to-revenue

MINNEAPOLIS & REHOVOT, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Stratasys
Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS), a global leader in additive technology
solutions, today further pushed the envelope of what’s possible with 3D
printed prototypes – empowering customers to deliver highly realistic,
vibrantly-colored parts at speeds up to 5x – 10X faster and more cost
effective than traditional manufacturing. Designed to shrink development
cycles and time-to-market, the enhanced Stratasys J750 3D Printer –
alongside the new Stratasys J735 3D Printer – enables designers and
engineers to build highly realistic prototypes with streamlined
design-to-prototype workflows, thus decreasing both time-to-market and
time-to-revenue.

Now offering in excess of 500,000 color combinations via a new vivid
color package, highly accurate color matching, and advanced clear with
texture functionality – the PolyJet-driven systems create prototypes
that look, feel and operate like finished products. Eliminating costly
requirements for painting, assembly, or post-processing – both systems
shrink prototype cycles by producing parts that are both reliable and
consistent, print-after-print. Enhanced GrabCAD Print software – now
also available for the Connex3 3D Printer – further improves workflows
and functional prototyping for parts requiring ABS-level plastic
simulation and tear-resistant rubber-like parts.

“With the new vivid colors solution on the J750 3D Printer, we are able
to produce prototypes with incredible realism, such as the transparent
multi-color covers for our tail lights. This can offer the texture and
color-matching requirements to meet our design approval process,” says
Reinhard Schiechel & Dr. Tim Spiering, Audi Model shop and 3D printing
center. “This ability to produce transparent multi-color prototypes that
so closely mimic the final part, in a single print, might significantly
reduce time and cost required for each design process. Consequently, we
could free capacities to run through more iterations and improve overall
design, while accelerating our time-to-market.”

The newly advanced J750 and J735 are engineered to power prototype
creation in industries ranging from automotive and consumer goods to
research and education. Building true representations of final products
for successful design verification, functional performance testing and
fit/form applications, both PolyJet 3D Printers simulate parts with full
color and textures – ranging from rigid to flexible, transparent to
opaque. Additionally, two new materials – VeroYellowV and VeroMagentaV –
deliver enhanced red/orange/yellow colors with next stage translucency,
a perfect match for consumer goods and models used to represent
automotive lights and housing. These advanced colors are available both
on the J750 and J735 3D Printers – and now the Connex3 3D Printer.

“Some of the biggest challenges designers and manufacturers face are 3D
printed prototypes that fail to deliver the realism necessary to make
them actionable. The advanced Stratasys J750 and newly announced
Stratasys J735 3D Printers were engineered to eliminate these
roadblocks,” said Rich Garrity, President Americas, Stratasys. “When
combined with a GrabCAD Print solution that further improves
design-to-3D print processes – it’s now easier than ever before for
manufacturers to create better prototypes, more accurately and
on-demand. This shrinks the entire design-to-final part manufacturing
process.”

The power of PolyJet is actively being used by award-winning stop-motion
animators at LAIKA – who count on Stratasys to ensure naturalistic
facial animation for its puppets – as seen in such critically-acclaimed
films as “Coraline” and “Kubo and the Two Strings.” According to Brian
McLean, Director of Rapid Prototype for LAIKA, enhanced colors and
voxel-level control are essential for the characters in their
unannounced, and highly anticipated new stop-motion animated film.

“Being able to have a 3D printer like the Stratasys J750 that’s
dimensionally-accurate, repeatable and with an improved range of color
has allowed us to break down creative, and technical barriers,” McLean
noted. “For our next film, unannounced, we used Stratasys’ new color 3D
printing technology and another voxel slicing software package. This
combination of hardware and software allowed us to achieve a level of
detail and subtlety in facial animation that was previously
unattainable.”

Taking the power of the Stratasys J750 and J735 3D Printers – and now
the Connex3 – one step further is GrabCAD Print™, allowing designers to
3D print directly from native CAD formats and saving time typically used
to convert and fix STL files. The software also has new ability to 3D
print VRML files to power more realistic textures, images and graphics
on-part. Detailed views of model, tray and slice preview further shrink
time-to-design to make adjustments before going to final 3D print.

Stratasys is exclusively showcasing its advanced solutions – alongside
its wealth of part realism, clear with texture functionality and
advanced part profiles – this week at Rapid + TCT 2018: the 3D printing
and additive manufacturing event at the Fort Worth Convention Center in
Fort Worth, TX. For more information, please visit Stratasys at Booth
No. 1104.

Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) is a global leader in additive
technology solutions for industries including Aerospace, Automotive,
Healthcare, Consumer Products and Education. For nearly 30 years, a deep
and ongoing focus on customers’ business requirements has fueled
purposeful innovations—1,200 granted and pending additive technology
patents to date—that create new value across product lifecycle
processes, from design prototypes to manufacturing tools and final
production parts. The Stratasys 3D printing ecosystem of solutions and
expertise—advanced materials; software with voxel level control;
precise, repeatable and reliable FDM and PolyJet 3D printers;
application-based expert services; on-demand parts and industry-defining
partnerships—works to ensure seamless integration into each customer’s
evolving workflow. Fulfilling the real-world potential of additive,
Stratasys delivers breakthrough industry-specific applications that
accelerate business processes, optimize value chains and drive business
performance improvements for thousands of future-ready leaders.
Corporate headquarters: Minneapolis, Minnesota and Rehovot, Israel.
Online at: www.stratasys.com,
http://blog.stratasys.com and
LinkedIn.

Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

The statements in this press release relating to Stratasys’ beliefs
regarding the benefits our customers will experience from the J750,
J735, and GrabCAD Print are forward-looking statements reflecting
management’s current expectations and beliefs. These forward-looking
statements are based on current information that is, by its nature,
subject to rapid and even abrupt change. Due to risks and uncertainties
associated with Stratasys’ business, actual results could differ
materially from those projected or implied by these forward-looking
statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited
to: the risk that customers will not perceive the benefits of the J750,
J735, and GrabCAD Print to be the same as Stratasys does; and other risk
factors set forth under the caption “Risk Factors” in Stratasys’ most
recent Annual Report on Form 20-F, filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 28, 2018. Stratasys is under no
obligation (and expressly disclaims any obligation) to update or alter
its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by the rules
and regulations of the SEC.

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