Speed is not something that generally gets attributed to desktop SLA machines,

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Speed is not something that generally gets attributed to desktop SLA machines, but interesting to see Formlabs add a 20 micron draft mode that is pretty quick. What they fail to mention however is post-processing time, which to me is still the sticking point of SLA.
http://mytct.co/FormlabsCESVideo

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Not bad

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I’m of two minds of it. I don’t know what is meant by post processing time being terrible on resin parts. On the whole, it’s a different process generally for different uses. The one thing I don’t like about FormLabs’ material is that it’s a pain to clean up and it’s viscous enough to cause build problems.

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I just think that curing a part in alcohol is something that needs to be stated in that time because it isn’t finished until that time. With an FDM rook you just pop it off build plate and it is done but it’d need another hour or so soaked in alcohol preferably in daylight from the formlabs machine.

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You don’t let it sit in alcohol for an hour. It’s ten minutes. I guess I’ve never thought about the UV cure time as part of the post processing.

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Sorry my mistake, I can’t remember that far back when I was using one (despite it only being a few months) reading my review I do seem to recall that after soaking in alcohol it needed to be UV cured by daylight for some time especially in the dingier parts of this here North-West England office. My argument would be that you need speed to get parts quickly and you haven’t got your part until it is usable.