Orange Maker · since 2013
OM invented rotational resin 3D printing. Now we license it: the patented process, the schematics and more than ten years of R&D, for the companies and people who will build what comes next.
Partner with OMWhat we believe
For decades the great leaps happened in software. The next ones happen in things you can make.
A design that stays on a screen is a promise. A part in your hand is proof.
Anyone can now create a model in minutes. Turning it into something that holds up is a question of light, material and motion.
If it can be imagined, it should be possible to make it, anywhere in the world, by many hands.
The original
2013
Orange Maker was founded by Kurt Dudley and Doug Farber, who met in 2011. In 2013 we filed for heliolithography: stereolithography that combines UV light and rotation to build a part as one continuous spiral. We kept refining it while the technologies around it matured. That moment has arrived, and now we’re licensing it to builders.
US PATENT 9,321,215
The founding patent for rotational spiral SLA
Today: the foundation of a growing patent portfolio, with more in the pipeline. View the patent ↗
The patent portfolio
A highly configurable, IP-protected process
Heliolithography is a rotational spiral buildup method. The build plate rotates and rises at the same time, so the part grows continuously along one helical path, with no layer-by-layer stop and start. High-power UV cures radial lines, pie slices or the whole build area, configured for each build. The method is protected by Orange Maker’s patent portfolio.
Illustrative animation, not to scale.
High-power UV cures radial lines, a pie slice or the whole build area while the part keeps turning.
Use the full build area, and scale.
No expose, peel, lift and recoat cycle.
The light is always working.
Fresh material keeps arriving behind the strip.
Resins across a range of viscosities, including thicker materials than other systems can process.
Why now
This is how technology moves: a breakthrough waits for the fields around it. Rotational printing needed advances in photonics, materials, scanning, data and AI to arrive together. They have, and the platform is ready to scale.
Our mission
OM doesn’t sell printers, and the process isn’t open source. We license it, and bring partners what we’ve learned in more than ten years of R&D, along with recommended partners to build with. One company can only make so much. Many builders, starting where we left off, can change how things are made.
Working with OM
Every partnership draws on what we’ve developed, our recommended partners and the team that built it. Depending on your field, that can include:
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Mechanical and electrical
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With recommended suppliers
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Rotary, Z and cure control
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Spiral slicing and part encoding
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Tuned per material
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From our resin partners
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For qualification
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Plus technician certification
Where it goes
You build it, under license, with our team and recommended partners alongside you as you bring the process into your field.
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Build your own rotational systems on the patented process, then scale them into automated print farms wherever production is needed.
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Personal devices, made close to the patient.
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Spare parts made when and where they are needed.
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Formulations across a range of viscosities, including thicker resins than other systems can handle.
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Keeping products in use instead of in landfill.
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Careers for leading-edge engineers and technicians around the world, running and qualifying the platform.
Licensing and partnerships
We work with you to match our technology to your industry, and to lower the barrier to adopting new manufacturing tech.
Who licenses OM
Build with us
Bring the application. We’ll bring everything we’ve learned. Inquire about partnerships and licensing.
A technical review of the platform against your application and roadmap.
Your engineers and ours develop it together for your application.
Production under license in your field, with our support.