Bambu PLA Aero

Bambu PLA Aero achieves low density and light weight by foaming at high temperatures during printing and creating small holes inside the prints. It's the perfect choice for light-weight and energy-saving prints, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), aerodynamic models, and gliders.

 

Foaming PLA materials (PLA Aero) have high requirements for material drying and parameter settings. Please carefully read Instructions for printing aircraft model with foaming PLA (PLA Aero) before starting the printing process.

PLA Aero
 

Low Density and Light Weight

Bambu PLA Aero has almost the same filament density as regular PLA, while the prints density is only 50% to 80%.

 
PLA Aerorfid

* When printing models of the same volume, PLA Aero is about half the weight of PLA Basic.

 

Controllable Model Density

Achieve lower density of the prints by increasing printing temperature and lowering flow rate.

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* The average density of prints will vary with changes in parameters such as actual printing temperature, flow rate ratio, printing speed, model size, wall thickness and infill density.

 
  Parameter Setting Average Density
Printing Temperature Increases ↗ Decreases ↘
Printing Speed Increases ↗ Stable or Increases ↗
Flow Rate Ratio Increases ↗ Increases ↗
Model Size Increases ↗ Decreases ↘
Wall Thickness（Wall loops） Increases ↗ Increases ↗
Infill Density Increases ↗ Increases ↗
 

Tough with Good Impact Resistance

Compared to pre-foaming Wood PLA, Bambu PLA Aero and its prints are tougher and more resistant to impact, collision, and falling.

 

 

 

Matte Finish For Easy Coloring

Bambu PLA Aero provides an easy-to-color matte surface texture with better dyeing results as compared to PLA Basic.

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Parameters Comparison

Learn more different filaments comparison on Bambu Filament Guide >>

  PLA Basic PLA Aero
Printing Temperature 190 - 230 ℃ 210 - 260 ℃
Printing Speed < 300 mm/s < 250 mm/s
Flow Rate Ratio 0.96 - 1 0.5 - 0.8
Filament Density 1.24 g/cm³ 1.21 g/cm³
Foaming Rate / 0 - 120%
Prints Density 1.21 kg/m³ 0.55 - 1.05 kg/m³

 

Accessory Compatibility

  Recommended Not Recommended
Build Plate Cool Plate, High Temperature Plate or Textured PEI Plate /
Hotend 0.4 mm Nozzle (All type) 0.6 mm / 0.8mm Nozzle
Glue Bambu Liquid Glue
Glue Stick		 /
 

RFID for Intelligent Printing

All printing parameters are embedded in RFID, which can be read through our AMS (Automatic Material System).

Load and print! No more tedious setting steps.

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Recommended Printing Settings
Drying Settings (Blast Drying Oven) 55 °C，8 h
Printing and Keeping Container's Humidity < 20% RH (Sealed, with Desiccant)
Nozzle Temperature 210 - 260 °C
Bed Temperature (with Glue) 35 - 45 °C
Printing Speed < 250 mm/s
Physical Properties  
Density 1.21 g/cm³
Vicar Softening Temperature 56 °C
Heat Deflection Temperature 54 °C
Melting Temperature 154 °C
Melt Index 5.0 ± 0.6 g/10 min
Mechanical Properties  
Tensile Strength 26 ± 2 MPa
Breaking Elongation Rate 2.2 ± 0.8 %
Bending Modulus 1960 ± 110 MPa
Bending Strength 42 ± 3 MPa
Impact Strength 24.5 ± 1.7 kJ/m²

 

Downloads


pdfFilament TDS

pdfFilament MSDS

pdfFilament RoHS

 

Printing Tips

• PLA Aero filament is relatively soft which may result in material loading and unloading failures during AMS printing.

• PLA Aero is prone to stringing and material leakage when it gets wet. Recommended drying condition is 55 ℃ for 8 hours in a blast drying oven, and 75 ℃ for 12 hours on printer's heatbed. Learn more about filament drying. Please refer to Filament drying cover on WIKI.

 

What's in the Box?

Filament with Spool*1 & Desiccant*1

Filament Label*1

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Package*1