Helios Support™ Natural
Helios Support is a “high heat” water-soluble PVA material which is engineered as support material for dual extrusion
3D printing in combination with engineering materials which require to be printed at higher temperatures and/or in
heated build chambers. Helios support can be printed at nozzle temperatures up to 250° C without the risk of cross
linking and nozzle clogging and adheres extremely well to styrene based materials such as ABS, TitanX, Crystal Flex,
and ApolloX, but also to Python Flex and Volcano PLA.
Helios Support dissolves slightly slower in water than normal PVA, but the dissolving process can be accelerated when
using warm and circulating water.
Unique features
- Can be printed at nozzle temperatures up to 250° C
- No risk of cross linking and nozzle clogging
- Improved filament flowing behaviour
- Can be printed in heated build chambers up to 60° C
- Excellent adherence to ABS, TitanX, ClearScent ABS, ApolloX, Crystal Flex, Python Flex and Volcano PLA
- Excellent solubility in warm circulated water
- Fully biodegradable when dissolved in water
General printing guidelines *
| Nozzle size: ≥ 0.15mm |
Layer height: ≥ 0.1mm |
Flow rate: ± 100% |
| Print temp: ± 235 - 255° C * |
Print speed: Medium |
Retraction: Yes ± 5mm |
| Heat bed: ± 35 - 60° C |
Fan speed: 0-25% |
Experience level: Expert |
*) Above displayed settings are meant as guidance to find your optimal print settings. These ranges in settings should work for most printers, but please do feel free to experiment outside these ranges if you think it is suitable for your printer. There are a lot of different type of printers, hot-ends and printer offsets that it is extremely difficult to give an overall one-size-fits-all setting.
*) Once Helios Support has been used or opened from its original vacuum sealed packaging for a while it is advised to dry the material before using again.
Filament length
| ρ: 1.19 g/cc |
50 gr coil |
0.3 Kg spool |
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| Ø 1.75mm |
± 17.5m |
± 105m |
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| Ø 2.85mm |
± 6.6m |
± 40m |
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Formfutura PVA Support matrix
Below overview is meant to give guidance on which of our PVA based support materials – AquaSolve PVA, Atlas Support,
and Helios Support – is advised as support material in combination with various Formfutura filaments that can be used
as primary building material.
Please do note that below overview is purely meant as general guidance and advice based on our in-house expertise and
experience and that it is not to be seen as a fixed principle or rule. There are numerous factors that determine the best fitting
PVA support with a primary building material and it actually varies per 3D printer. Below overview can according to our state of
knowledge be used as guidance for the fast majority of 3D printers.
