What does high toughness mean for a printed ABS+ part?
It is bought for parts that get handled, clamped or dropped rather than displayed: the grade is formulated so the part absorbs a knock and keeps its layer bond, where a commodity ABS bracket tends to fail at the screw boss or split along a layer line at the first impact. ABS+ is still an ABS family material - it prints in an enclosure and holds stiffness, and it is not a flexible material, so a part that has to bend and recover is a TPU job.
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