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I print a lot of miniatures which require tons of supports, but the support process most people in my space use result in supports that are incredibly easy to r
by cfeduke 6y ago
I print a lot of miniatures which require tons of supports, but the support process most people in my space use result in supports that are incredibly easy to remove - it got to a point for me where I enjoyed removing supports that I was printing too much. Sort of like when we'd put Elmer's glue on our hands just to pull it off after it dried back in school. :)
Post (or pre) support removal is an isopropyl or acetone (or other agent) bath to remove any liquid surface resin and then a final UV curing.
I use an Anycubic curing station so that definitely speeds things up. To process a full build plate from my EPAX X10 it takes upwards of five minutes of my time [in terms of attention] (plus six minutes in the alcohol bath and six minutes in the UV cure chamber, which are both unattended processes).
- mrfusion 6y agoInteresting. How much faster is the print time vs fdm?
- johnwalkr 6y agoIt's much slower than FDM (at least in my experience using a formlabs printer).
- sydd 6y agoIt really depends. an LCD resin printer prints a single layer at once, but it prints much smaller layers than an FDM printer (resulting in better quality). So for something small like a minifigure FDM will be faster, but for something big (especially if it has lots of small features) resin is faster usually. And resin prints are always more detailed.