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Those resin based machines are really cool and can produce some pretty amazing parts. This one in particular is pretty awesome just for the speed alone. The only thing I don’t like is the resin material options which pretty much rules out high strength materials that I would want (at least from what I’ve seen).
This is a really impressive printer. I wonder how expensive an oxygen permeable glass is? Also, wonder how expensive their resin will be? Printers this amazing seem to always be cost prohibitive. But, I’m excited.
I remember when I first saw the Pegasus Touch and their Eiffel Tower print with comparisons to other printers…it looked SOOO good! But the resin is expensive, the resin vats wear out relatively quickly, the resin has to be stored away from UV and the parts aren’t durable enough for what I need…it just wasn’t worth the higher cost at the time vs. FFF machines that can print with a huge variety of materials for less cost of the machines.
That being said, this kind of machine would work amazing for non-functional prototyping where accuracy and speed were more important than part strength or functionality. If something like this can do it for less (machine and resin costs), why not get one?
From some of the graph he has shown, looks like they have similar strength of the conventional ABS/PLA in its highest strength direction. Don’t quite remember if the units were same.
I know our Objet parts are strong…but brittle. ABS part are often the same way from my experience.