Formlabs 3D Printer
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The Form 2 is Formlab's 3rd generation printer boasting a whole range of new features including a new peeling mechanism, heated tank, touchscreen display, wireless controls and an automated resin system. The resulting prints that come off of the Form 2 have consistently been among the highest quality objects to come off of any desktop 3D printer. This machine is best used with the Form Wash and Cure [1]
Documentation
Training
- SLA Printing
- The Form 2 is an SLA Printer. Stereolithography, SLA, is a part of the manufacturing technology of vat polymerization. This means a light source (laser) is used to cure liquid resin into a hard plastic.
- The Form 2 utilizes the Upside Down or Inverted orientation.
- The resin tank has a clear bottom with a surface the resin will not stick to. This allows the resin to cure against the bottom of the tank.
- The build platform is lowered into the resin until it is hovering above the bottom surface of the tank, as far away as the height of the layer to be constructed.
- The laser is directed through the bottom of the tank and cures a layer of resin onto the build platform. Then, the resin tank slides over and the build platform raises. The wiper will then sweep across the tank to circulate the resin.
- The build platform will lower again, and the process will be repeated until the print is completed.
- Due to friction caused by de-laminating every layer, every part should be canted in its orientation. This means the part should be angled to reduce the cross sectional area needing to be shifted to de-laminate each layer.
- Once a part is finished on the Form 2, it must be removed off of the build plate, any excess resin must washed off using the Form Wash, the part must be air dried so that any alcohol from the Wash has evaporated, supported must be clipped off, and the part should be cured in the Form Cure.
