I just got her
Is that a projector on the bottom?
Same thought here @Ricky_Cadden . Used for alignment?
@Ricky_Cadden
that’s the magic maker - it’s a resin printer that uses light to cure the layers
Inventive - but surely you can think of a more efficient light source than a projector . . . I’d suggest a high powered LED or maybe a 3V powered mag light… You sure it uses light and not heat ??
The projector displays the entire image of the layer at once therefore they are fast machines. However, hi res projectors get expensive quickly when you want to scale up but not sacrifice details in prints. That’s when laser systems become efficient. The mUVe3D is an xy robot with a laser. There is no tradeoff between price and maximum size but you will sacrifice speed. Other systems include the Form1 which uses galvanometers to steer the laser. A company called Pryntech started a development printer called the OpenSL which is similar to the Form 1. With a laser it is relatively easy to achieve large build areas at high resolutions. The speed is somewhere between an xy robot and a projector based SLA system. A much less common method is an LCD mask system.
This is the B9 Creator .
I have a form one printer and I’m about to sell it…the B9 creator is better then the formlabs
It takes 20-30 seconds to cure a layer. Big object, small object - same cure time. So, for big objects you can consider this fast, for small it would seem super slow.
The projector beams the image of each layer into the resin, which hardens only where the light shines. Then the printer moves the object up a tiny bit, and the projector shines an image of the next layer, repeating until the whole thing is printed.
Since the B9 projects the whole layer at once, the curing time is the same whether you’re printing something that covers the whole projected area or is much smaller. Of course, the shorter the object is the faster it will print!
In contrast, the FormOne uses a very intense laser to trace the shape, which means that larger areas take more time for the laser to cover.
Form Ones DVD laser
good
Very nice. Do you know about http://makerjuice.com/? They’re doing some great stuff, coming up with interesting resins and selling them at good prices.
Cool.
Just got a Miicraft 3D printer this is pretty cool!
I use rhino gold rhino 5.0 and mudbox