Transform Your Products © Copyright 2005 by 3D Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. The 3D Logo, Buildstation, Lightyear and Viper are trademarks, and SLA

Transform Your Products© Copyright 2005 by 3D Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. The 3D Logo, Buildstation, Lightyear and Viper are trademarks, and SLA is a registered trademark of 3D Systems, Inc.

Sept. 8, 2005Sept. 8, 2005

Nasdaq: TDSCNasdaq: TDSC

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3D Systems Corporation3D Systems Corporation

3D Lightyear3D Lightyear™™ 1.5 software 1.5 software

BuildStationBuildStation™™ 5.5 software 5.5 software

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Lightyear 1.5/ Buildstation 5.5 Software Highlights

New Features Official XP support (11 Wish List Votes)

Change recoat and part build parameters during a build ( 9 votes)

Delete a part during a build (8 Votes)

Copy, delete and move individual parts within a BFF

High Fidelity Slice

Viper™ HA dual-vat support

3D Graphics view of build


Lightyear 1.5/ Buildstation 5.5 Software Highlights

Efficiency improvements Supports new CPU and electronics

Supports--Enhanced custom draw – view and edit multiple regions at the same time

Part(s) selection by a rubber-band box

Added X, Y ranges for Auto-simple part placement (i.e. auto place within a 5 x 5 box)

One click select and Shift and Control Select options to select multiple parts

Align parts to top or bottom Z height

User selectable scan order optimization


Buildstation 5.5 Software Details

Official XP support

3-D graphics view of build



Change recoat and part build parameters during a build (9 votes)


Delete a part during a build (8 votes)



Copy, delete and move individual parts within a BFF



Scan Order optimization



High-Fidelity Slice Slices with Floating point

math No loss of data Super smooth contours Z correction works better

Lightyear 1.5 Software Details

However…• Larger file size• Longer Slice time• May cause slower build time due to “jump to rest” from more

small vectors if running Pentium II PC Controller




High-Fidelity Slice (3D Lightyear 1.5 software)

With

High Fidelity Slice

Without

High Fidelity Slice



With Lightyear 1.4 software

Slice


Slice

With Lightyear 1.5 software




Viper HA system - dual-vat support

3D Lightyear 1.5 software details


Designed for parts with many small features all on the same layer like Jewelry

Pick and region and assign a +/- value

All small regions are combined into one

108 regions

New Custom Draw


Edit or delete supports in combined region

New Custom Draw


New Custom DrawCustom draw supports on new combined region


New menu selection to show breakdown of the total build time.

Log file (c:\temp\bte.txt) created with broken down build time estimates (sweep time, scan time, support time, etc. etc.)

Build time estimate



Ordering Information

Catalog Number Description

SVCU LY/BLDSTA

Software upgrade to latest 3D Lightyear and Buildstation software version, three or more versions out of date -- Provides current version of preparation and build software and a 30 day free update period following shipment. Price is per system and is non transferable.

SVCU SLSW 1 RevSL software upgrade to current version for customers who are one revision out of date

SVCU SLSW 2 RevSL software upgrade to current version for customers who are two revisions out of date

SVCM SL MaintHotAnnual software maintenance plus Hotline support for first SL system.

SVCM SL Maint1 Annual software maintenance for multiple SL systems at one location.

1 Software only maintenance for the 2nd machine at one site.

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