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Message from discussion Formlabs Form1 SLA 3D Printer for about the same price as Replicator2 / X2
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Matt Smollinger  
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 More options Sep 26 2012, 2:44 pm
From: Matt Smollinger <m.smollin...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:44:42 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Sep 26 2012 2:44 pm
Subject: Re: [MakerBot] Formlabs Form1 SLA 3D Printer for about the same price as Replicator2 / X2
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It looks like a great option. However FDM can be 90% of what SLA produces,
at 1/10th the cost. $150 bucks for resin, and thats cheap? Yuck, and oh
yeah, don't get it on your hands cuz its toxic and stains worse than
anything else.

I'll stick with my PLA FDM for now.

--Matt--

On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 1:59:52 PM UTC-4, Aaron Double wrote:

> Something of note between the formlabs and b9 creator.

> They are similar but different, the formlabs one uses a laser and is a
> traditional SLA printer except they are building from the bottom up, the B9
> creator is a DLP printer. Uses a video projector to expose an entire layer
> at one time instead of drawing the layer with a laser.

> Not a positive or negative for either one, just a difference.

> Aaron

> On Sep 26, 2012, at 1:37 PM, happyman wrote:

> I think it is very exciting that SLA 3D Printer begin to follow the trend
> of FDM 3D Printer. At the present, there aren't many SLA 3D Printers below
> US$3,000 to choose from (the most prominent brand that target home 3D
> Printer that I am aware of, is B9Creator) and most of them seem to be an
> indiviual start up. Formlabs seems to be backed by some deep pocket
> investors so its future appears to be brighter than the rest. It has a nice
> software too with following features

> - Automatic generation of smart support structures
> - Autolayout optimizes part location prior to printing
> - Manual tools for rotation, scaling, and duplication
> - Analyze individual print layers with 3D stage viewer
> It also comes with finishing tools as well.

> It has already hit the target of US$100,000 in Kickstarter.

> Hopefully, this will help to accelerate the overall 3D Market technologies
> to the next level.

> Will Makerbot consider to expand its line of 3D printer offering
> with other technologies like SLA or SLS? Hopefully, we will know soon with
> the increasing pressures from the competitors.

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