Did you know you can stack 3D printed SLA parts? Markus Bucher (Senior Sales Engineer at Formlabs) came up with the idea of designing and printing these stacked towers to print 264 parts in just 2 hours and 1 minute. These parts were printed in Fast Model Resin on Form 4, our fastest resin, capable of printing at speeds over 100 mm per hour. This allows you to print dental models in minutes or large prototypes in less than two hours. Learn more about Fast Model Resin: https://bit.ly/4cawsbX
This should definitely become a feature of preform. I'd love to have the ability to create stacks of models easily.
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Yes this is impressive and really boosts up the productivity of the Form4 especially with a lack of a FormAuto alternative currently. But doing this in CAD is not the most practical way forward :) it wil create a large file that will potentially have long loading times amidst other factors. Slicers like Asiga Composer have had stacking features for audio and dental parts 5 years ago. I believe with the speeds that Form4 is able to achieve the time is now right for this to be included as a feature in Preform.
That’s a great feature, but seeing a matrix of hundreds of human teeth rising out of that resin will fuel my nightmares for years to come.
This is a great feature!
Been asking for this since 2019…you can’t easily make business cases for SLA/MSLA/DLP without stacking or automation. And if you are automating, stacking is a no brainer to increase throughput.
I wonder if Materialise already has this in their software 🤔 I also remember seeing lots of examples of this type of stacking on the Figure 4 machines. Would be great to have this as a built-in option in Preform. Even on the Form 3 and 3L I could see myself having used it in the past.
Great to see the push for this. I've been using this technique since we bought our 3B in '21 until they released the software, and then seeing the FormAuto. Hopefully they'll integrate this even as a beta in PreForm. You would save me a lot of CAD work! 😁🙏
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1moThis is very old idea especially for DLP 3D Printers, already was done from manufacturers like envisiontec and others. It would really help if it's a software feature.