The New 3D Printing Thread

Hi Super,

If you mean by artifacts erroneous patterns or errors on the model, to date I've seen none.

You do have supports still, but they're removed easily and generally leave no marks.

In terms of material, the slicer software gives you an estimate in both ml and gm. To give you an idea an average pair of battlemechs come in between 10ml and 15ml.

This isn't much when you buy the resin in 1 litre bottles (1,000ml).

Even the bigger models such as the Eiffel Tower model only came in at around 30-40ml, can't remember the exact figure. So you can see that you'll get a lot of models out of a bottle. Cost wise per model the filament model if you could print it at the same resolution would be cheaper, but in reality it's nor tealistic to do that, you'd need to scale up and then use more material.

You do have to clean them, until recently the recommended was to use iso propol alcohol, but recently people have been trying other fluids, I'm going with one of the alternatives which is one of these household cleaner products which is good for decreasing surfaces etc... The one I'm using at the moment is a dettol product (UK brand), but I've seen various USA brands of similar products in reviews. I'm now using that neat in an ultrasonic cleaner, you could just use a pot, but I find the cleaner to be far more efficient. After that fluid has done it's job you just rinse the model in tap water and dry in the sun or under a UV light source to cure it.

Yes you could potentially add an insert depending on the model, but it's something you'd need to design.