As you might imagine, engineering the Form 1 required tremendous effort and precision. The same is true for our resin development, which we continue to fine tune before shipping.
While the Formlabs team loves printing exciting parts (the tree in a previous post is a staff favorite!), we’ve also repeated basic parts literally hundreds of times to test resin formulations and their properties. These parts allow our engineers to continuously tweak and improve our material for the best possible result.
As you can imagine by the photos on this post, an exciting part of stereolithography is the multitude of resin possibilities,. But resins aren’t limited merely to different colors. For example, properties can range drastically from extremely hard to extremely flexible materials, depending on the engineering behind the formation. This is why Formlabs sees a bright future not just in printer technology innovation, but in material innovation as well.
For now, we are proud to present our first material, which can be used for a wide array of practical applications. Our engineers have lovingly nicknamed their creation “fluorescent grey” because the laser lights up the resin with a cool color when tracing each cross section of a print. Although we are still putting the final touches on the material, you can now find a preliminary MSDS on our website.
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A really easy workaround for getting SLA resin in different colors is dying the part. If you soak an SLA part in a mixture of denatured alcohol and RIT fabric dye you can get really great results. The die doesn’t penetrate very deeply, but provides a uniform color without the buildup of painting. All dimensions and surface finish are preserved. The parts only need to soak for 5 – 10 minutes.
You definitely will have to have a psaison for Biology.It’s definitely nothing like being a doctor. A doctor is a physician whose goal is to treat a patient to highest possible well-being and health. (And not all doctors have children patients. A pediatrician is the children’s doctor)I don’t know this field to figure out what schooling you need to go through. It’s definitely interesting field of science. Make sure you find out the salary, hours per week of working, the schooling, what you have to major in, and just about everything down to the satisfaction rate of the job before just going into that career.
In your resin development do you for cast releasing a rubber like material? Is it even possible? I plan on using the Form1 to produce masters that molds will be made of to cast in rubber, but if I could knock out a similar feeling prototype that would be great!