From the course: Additive Manufacturing: Resin 3D Printing
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When to use an SLA-type resin printer
From the course: Additive Manufacturing: Resin 3D Printing
When to use an SLA-type resin printer
- [Woman] There are several different resin-based 3D printer technologies that span a big range of costs, from under $1,000 to hundreds of thousands. In this movie, we focus on applications of SLA, DLP, and other tank-based resin 3D printing. First, is resin-jetting machines, which serve a somewhat different market. What, then, are the best uses for resin 3D printing? The key advantage of resin printers, is their ability to create extremely fine detail. There's some variation among the technologies, and the details of exactly how fine this resolution could be in practice. Generally speaking, the thinnest layer a filament printer can make is about the same as the thickest one a resin printer can make. That's typically about 100 microns, or .1 mm, or 4/1000 of an inch. About the thickness of a sheet of copy paper. Printing these thin layers means that the print takes a while. Resin print times are mostly a function of the…
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