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Form 3 owner here. - What is the material in each process? - What is the price per unit when accounting for materials? - If the material is not a Form proprietary mix, does the cost of the printers include the Open Platform license cost? [0] - What post-processing is required to wash and cure the printed pieces? - How many human hours are required in the washing / curing of the pieces from each method? - What is the…
Am I misunderstanding? They’re no longer using lasers but LCD?!
Lower cost printers are absolutely using LCDs with an LED UV light source. These resin curing printers are pretty darn cheap as well, and have a ton of resolution. They also excel on volume as they do expose the entire plate at once and don’t require scanning a laser around. The material you get out of such a printer is of course entirely different from an injection molded part.
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I don't understand your last sentence. If "you want less than slower ." What does that mean? Isn't it 3d printing end to end from idea to existing faster than injection molding for smaller runs? Isn't the entire point of this video that for a 1000 part sample 3D printing/Injection molding run time were actually more comparable than one might think?
The video chooses a very slow injection moulding machine; creates a mould that only produces two parts per cycle even though the machine could clearly handle far more; then has to use four of their machines and a human to match its pace. Yes, 3d printing is vastly faster if you measure the time for me to get a part from the machine on my desk vs ordering a mold and shipping the results from Shenzhen. But that was tru…
They are printing a full bed of parts for each 3D printer run, but only two per injection cycle? And what's with that giant spike of flash on their injection molded parts? This video is so disingenuous.
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The video chooses a very slow injection moulding machine; creates a mould that only produces two parts per cycle even though the machine could clearly handle far more; then has to use four of their machines and a human to match its pace. Yes, 3d printing is vastly faster if you measure the time for me to get a part from the machine on my desk vs ordering a mold and shipping the results from Shenzhen. But that was tru…
Seriously, that injection molding machine is slooooooow , and I produced parts faster in middle school in our shop class with an injection molding machine that was entirely manual and looked to be from the 20s, the 1920s. They are printing a full bed of parts for each 3D printer run, but only two per injection cycle? And what's with that giant spike of flash on their injection molded parts? This video is so disingenu…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand your last sentence. If "you want less than slower ." What does that mean? Isn't it 3d printing end to end from idea to existing faster than injection molding for smaller runs? Isn't the entire point of this video that for a 1000 part sample 3D printing/Injection molding run time were actually more comparable than one might think?
The video chooses a very slow injection moulding machine; creates a mould that only produces two parts per cycle even though the machine could clearly handle far more; then has to use four of their machines and a human to match its pace. Yes, 3d printing is vastly faster if you measure the time for me to get a part from the machine on my desk vs ordering a mold and shipping the results from Shenzhen. But that was tru…
Form 3 owner here. - What is the material in each process? - What is the price per unit when accounting for materials? - If the material is not a Form proprietary mix, does the cost of the printers include the Open Platform license cost? [0] - What post-processing is required to wash and cure the printed pieces? - How many human hours are required in the washing / curing of the pieces from each method? - What is the…
Form 3 owner here. - What is the material in each process? - What is the price per unit when accounting for materials? - If the material is not a Form proprietary mix, does the cost of the printers include the Open Platform license cost? [0] - What post-processing is required to wash and cure the printed pieces? - How many human hours are required in the washing / curing of the pieces from each method? - What is the…
My comparisons are against my own printer, anycubic photon mono. I can get a new printer with the same price of a bottle of formlabs material :)
Form 3 owner here. - What is the material in each process? - What is the price per unit when accounting for materials? - If the material is not a Form proprietary mix, does the cost of the printers include the Open Platform license cost? [0] - What post-processing is required to wash and cure the printed pieces? - How many human hours are required in the washing / curing of the pieces from each method? - What is the…
The Form 4 Open Platform pricing is still "TBD," and given the two licenses for the Form 3 differ by $3k, it makes me shudder to think what they'd charge for their newest toy
I also was trying to understand what that license gives you: is it removing the DRM from their printers to allow non-OEM materials?
Isn't the big downside to SLA prints that they have terrible structural integrity? Like worse than FDM prints?
And the strength of the output is highly dependent on the material for both printers. The typical resin is extremely brittle, but rather heat resistant. But you can get flexible or tough material which are both less brittle but also less rigid.
So to answer your question: not necessarily :) nylon-like SLA materials are pretty good for usable everyday items if you don't mind the slight fidelity losses (still better than FDM)