We’re launching a design challenge for those of you who are interested. Make an original, fun case design for Raspberry Pi (intended to be printed in our polyamide material). #3dprinting #contest #challenge
By Polyamide, you mean Nylon… Why don’t you guys just call it what it is?
From Wikipedia: “Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers known generically as polyamides”, I feel like you guys use “polyamides” so frequently because you’re trying to make it sound more advanced than it really is. 
@ThantiK i think calling by its scientific name isn’t that bad at all - Nylon is Dupont’s trade name for polyamides, PA made by any other manufacturer just isn’t Nylon. It’s kinda like calling all anime characters Goku because you are familiar with that one name.
In SLS process Poliamide is the most commonly used word for the material
@Thomas_Sanladerer , Nylon is not a trade(marked) name. “Instead of registering nylon as a trademark, Du Pont made it a generic word that anyone would be free to use.” - from http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u7sf/u7materials/nylondrama.html
It is nowhere near your analogy. A more apt analogy would be i.materialize calling Goku “Kakarrot”, when everybody knows him by the name Goku. Yes, it’s perfectly prudent to call him Kakarrot, and probably even more correct, but it would be annoying when someone did it.
And polyamide/nylon are interchangeable names - neither is more common than the other in the SLS industry (Nylon, however, is a much more common name generically), but i.materialize practically refuses to ever use the word nylon. Go ahead, search their site. You’ll not find 1 single use of Nylon anywhere. But they have no problem calling their photopolymers “resin”. They don’t call their “rubber-like” the proper polyurethane name. It’s always bothered me.
A bit like calling inkjets “giclee” printers.
@ThantiK i didn’t know that story around the Nylon non-trademark - in fact, i did a trademark search and the only Nylon trademark that came up is owned by Nylon holdings (apparently the publisher of NYLON magazine).
And you’re right, as a geek, i read Nylon and think Polyamide, but not everyone might make that connection. I’m sure @i.materialise has their reason to call a material one way or another, even if it’s just for marketing reasons.
@ThantiK @Thomas_Sanladerer For every new material we try to come up with a name that’s recognizable for a big group of people (because we want to bring 3D printing to the masses). When we choose a name it’s very important to stick to that name so people won’t get confused (that’s why you won’t find the word ‘nylon’ on our website). Some people like the word nylon, some like polyamide,…that’s just how it is. Not everyone is aware of the scientific name of materials, so that’s why we use the name ‘rubber-like’ which is very understandable for a large group of people.