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$2700 for a Steraolithography printer
Todderman
 Post subject: Re: $2700 for a Steraolithography printer
PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:53 pm 
I did some poking around. Shapeways claims that the layer thickness on Frosted Ultra Detail is 29 microns.

These guys claim 25 microns (where smaller is better).
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:49 pm 
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Todderman wrote:
I did some poking around. Shapeways claims that the layer thickness on Frosted Ultra Detail is 29 microns.

These guys claim 25 microns (where smaller is better).

That sounds awesome!!!!!!! Did you buy one yet Todderman???!!!!??? :o ::)

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Todderman
 Post subject: Re: $2700 for a Steraolithography printer
PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 12:36 am 
Nah. I'm going to wait a year for resolution and reliability to go up. And funds.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 1:13 pm 
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I'm all in. March2013 is my dock date.

Resolution will be improved by laser spot size and the angle at which it hits the resin. I would guess a software patch and aperture is all that would be required to reduce the laser beam's spot size.

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GlynG
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:28 pm 
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Perhaps it could be worth one of us posting a comment on the kickstarter, saying we're potentially interested in buying one, but only if the level of fined detail it can print becomes smaller again? They may not realise people want or need detail that small.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 1:53 pm 
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I am going to buy one of these as a gift for some of my engineers (we give out quarterly prices for strong contributors). So we will know in a few months how well it works...

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 11:37 pm 
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So it sounds like minimum part witch is 0.3mm, with .025mm stepping, if I have my micron decimal places right?? %^^& count me in. Going to lobby to get one at work!
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GlynG
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:57 am 
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My Portugeuse friend in Sydney might save up and buy one of these in a couple of months, he's been wanting a 3d printer for a while to print novel musical instruments, with preciseness and construction not possible with conventional techniques.

If he does I could use it to print new models and add-on parts, perhaps entire armies. I haven't looked into the details but is it known how resilient the matter prints are? Would I be able to matter print models to directly paint and game with or would they need to be moulded and cast afterwards
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Todderman
 Post subject: Re: $2700 for a Steraolithography printer
PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:13 pm 
According to their various blogs and blurbs, they're experimenting with a range of resin types. Eventually they should concoct onto something suitable.

Heh heh. Concoct.
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