Orange Maker · since 2013
We invented rotational resin 3D printing. Now we’re delivering 10+ years of R&D and patents through partnerships, for the big missions, projects, 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 hold.
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 in 2011 by Kurt Dudley and Doug Farber. Two years later 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.
US PATENT 9,321,215
The founding patent for rotational spiral SLA
Today: 20+ issued patents in the US and key international territories. View the patent ↗
The patent family
The process
Conventional resin printers cure a whole layer, peel it away, lift, wait for resin to flow back and repeat. Heliolithography cures with high-power UV, from radial lines and pie slices to the whole build area, while the part turns and rises, so it grows as one continuous spiral.
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.
Thick, filled and composite resins become printable.
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.
The thesis
Engineers, makers and companies bring the ideas. OM brings the process that turns them into real parts, and uses AI to make that process faster and easier to run.
What partners receive
A license is more than a patent. It comes with the full engineering package and a team that has done this before.
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Mechanical and electrical
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With qualified 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
We’ve done the heavy lifting. The components, manufacturers and supply partners are already mapped. We help you put it all together, deploy the technology and license it for your field of use.
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Build rotational systems on the original patented process, then scale them into automated print farms that put production wherever it’s 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 designed for a process that welcomes thick resins.
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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.
Build with us
Inquire about partnerships and licensing.
What you want to make, and for whom.
Components, manufacturers and partners, already mapped.
Licensed for your field of use, with our team alongside you.