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Formlabs is very much the ultra premium end. There are less moving parts, so printers like https://store.anycubic.com/products/photon-mono-m5 https://store.anyc
by ZiiS 2y ago
Formlabs is very much the ultra premium end. There are less moving parts, so printers like https://store.anycubic.com/products/photon-mono-m5 https://store.anycubic.com/products/photon-mono-m5 are a reliable workhorse very much price competitive with FDM printers.
For tiny models like table-top miniatures, then, I guess quality is subjective, but I certainly think it is more than 10x better. The numbers do not nearly represent the difference in surface finish and detail.
- ZiiS 2y agoNote, I am not saying they are better in general. I much prefer printing on my FDM and taking a clean part strait of the bed. Poring very smelly toxic chemicals, making everything you look at sticky, having to clean, filter etc, along with more sanding off the supports etc. I also find it much harder to prep designs; is that going to warp as it is pulled off the bed for each layer; is that going to trap uncured resin etc.
- ipsod 2y agoFully agree on toxic chemicals. When you get a workflow down and need quantity, though, resin is cool. Since it exposes the whole bed at once, I can, for example, pull 24 small prints off of a small printer every 1 hour. 2 days of production, and I have hundreds, using just one printer. With FDM, this particular part, FDM couldn't even make, but if it could, it'd be more like 15 minutes per part - would need a small print farm to keep up with literally one $150 printer. I don't even have a space for the resin printer right now, though. It really needs a dedicated and well-thought-out station to keep the toxic stuff from ruining your day.