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Note, 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

by ZiiS 2y ago

Note, 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 ago
Fully 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.