While curing is an essential part of the resin 3D printing process, with UV lasers or exposures built in to the 3D printer hardware, it is also common for makers to post-cure finished prints. Post-curing resin 3D prints allows users to enhance their print’s mechanical properties and achieve...
Why Should I Cure Resin Prints? Each Formlabs Resin is formulated with advanced, light-sensitive polymer chemistries. Formlabs stereolithography (SLA)resin 3D printers, such as theForm 3+,Form 3B+,Form 3L, andForm 3BLuse 405 nm lasers to cure the liquid resin, producing a highly accurate soli...
It was not so long ago when resin-based 3D printing was described as “not for beginners.” Whileresin printingis not technically difficult, it can be quite a messy activity. One step that can potentially make a mess is washing. Uncured resin has to be rinsed off using 99% isopropyl alco...
Stereolithography is a 3D printing technique that uses UV light to cure photopolymer resins into three-dimensional prints. What's the difference between SLA and SLS? Stereolithography (SLA) uses a UV laser to cure photopolymer-based resins while selective laser sintering (SLS) works with thermoplasti...
Successfully achieve strong bed adhesion for Laser, DLP, and SLA resin prints using LayerLock SLA Resin 3D Printing Build Surfaces. 3D Printing 101: How to Succeed with a Perfect First Layer for Every 3D Print The first layer of your 3D print is the foundation of everything that comes after...
2. Resin 3D prints also have smooth surfaces, and this reduces the amount of work to do in post-processing. 3. You can remove the supports easily when using a resin 3D printer compared to an FDM 3D printer. In FDM, sometimes the supports stick very much, and during the removal process...
The core of SLA printing involves a laser beam precisely directed by a light-emitting device to cure the polymer resin in a resin tank. The SLA printing process goes something like this: You create a 3D model of your object in a CAD program. A piece of software chops your CAD model up...
In SLA, an object is created by selectively curing a polymer resin layer-by-layer using an ultraviolet (UV) laser beam. DLP is similar to SLA but uses a digital light projector screen to flash a single image of each layer all at once. CDLP is a lot like DLP but relies on the ...
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While 3D printing has exploded in popularity, many of the plastic materials these printers use to create objects cannot be easily recycled. While new sustainable materials are emerging for use in 3D printing, they remain ...