Finally! Formlabs makes ceramic resin available

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I’ve been following this closely for about a year, and today, Formlabs finally made the announcement that their ceramic resin is available for the Form 2 printer.

Initially, I thought they didn’t have pricing, but now I’ve found where they do! It’s… the same price as their normal resin. That’s very exciting!

I don’t see any reason at the moment why we shouldn’t be able to do the printing up in 3D Fab and then perform the firing back in Fired Arts. It will require a very special firing - not just something that we can throw in with the normal ceramic work, but the larger kiln we have is entirely capable of performing the firing that they describe in the documentation (for those that don’t know, I’m active back in Fired Arts. I’m not just randomly guessing that we can do it.)

Here are the details from their website:

Now I just need to finally get around to getting into a resin printing class.

Anyone else interested in this?

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So does that mean that Fired Arts may want to be next to 3D Fab when we expand?

“This thing prints in mud…”

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That is quite a breakthrough

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I would assume it’s like the various metal clay materials that let you form/sculpt the material like Fimo clay, and then fire it to enduo with a solid bronze/silver/gold piece.

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At Funky Finds there was some folks that did a full body scan and then feed that to a 3 D printer, a real fancy oen Two hours later you could pickup a fully colored figurine of your yourself

On this one, I could see using it to make a mold to then use in clay workd

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Sounds very interesting. I hope we get some soon!

I wonder if the vessels made will have the same issues as using the other materials. Since they are made in layers there are leak issues.

John Gorman printed a cup. When I asked him will it hold water, it leaked. The areas it leaks from are tiny, tiny unseen areas between the layers.

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That’s really really fascinating it’s worthy of some serious experimentation. The shrinkage rate is obscene.
Oh the times are a changing.

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I would assume it’s like the various metal clay materials that let you form/sculpt the material like Fimo clay, and then fire it to enduo with a solid bronze/silver/gold piece.

Sort of, yeah. This is actually a ceramic compound that is held in suspension in the liquid resin. When the 3D printer solidifies the resin, the ceramic is still in suspension in the (now solid) polymer.

When you fire it, the polymer fires out, leaving only the ceramic behind.

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I know you’re joking, but that won’t be necessary.

There are some 3D printers that people have put together that print with very thick slip (liquid clay). I’m unaware of any commercial offerings that have come to market, but it could be that I’ve missed something.

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Hum if a liquid resin is burning out during the firing that may stink a bit, but we have vents!
When I fire enamels on glass I’ve had to plug in the vent ooo they stink.

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hey! It was a beautiful rendering of a standard 30oz tumbler! If I made the walls thicker, it prob would have held water. Or if i gave it an acetone bath…

The SLA resin printer is a very different printer from the FDM polyprinter I used for the tumbler. The resolution is insane. It will be tight…

Various variations :wink:

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Indeed! They mention in their documentation that you will need to have venting.

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Hoping to see some cool things this weekend at Makerfair. Last year there was at least one 3D Ceramic printer.

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