dlpower

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by dlpower 2y ago
Have not had this in my experience with formlabs. they recommend that you use a protective coating spray for parts that are outside in direct uv, I have never used it though and my parts have lasted fine. As always depends on the material,
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by dlpower 2y ago
yeah the 6k is wild for sure, if you are looking to not use formlabs resin why would you buy a formlabs printer though? The biggest advantage of formlabs in my mind is the ecosystem, the resins just work out of the box and you do not have t
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by dlpower 2y ago
Yeah for sure, I see where you are coming from. I have used a form 3 a lot (4k of materials) and have my own form 2 and for my uses it has worked super well. There are certainly blind spots but for the consumer they are targeting who wants
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by dlpower 2y ago
More the opposite than anything. The SLA parts are isotropic so you have the same properties in every direction and do not have to worry about breaking on the layer lines like in FDM. Formlabs has a couple resins which are very impact resis
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by dlpower 2y ago
Open platform allows you to use non formlabs resins, it works fine but tbh what you pay for with formlabs is getting the perfect prints every time. The form 3 works so well because all of the resins have such optimized settings and you can
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by dlpower 2y ago
They have a robust material library, silicone, polyurethane, glass filled polymers etc. The material is not really a bottleneck at this point. I have used their ESD material which was slick, even the weirder materials are super easy. Obviou