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Dental-CAM
Form 2 Castable Resin
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<blockquote data-quote="Wainwright" data-source="post: 284560" data-attributes="member: 20457"><p>Hello,</p><p></p><p>As someone who works at Formlabs I can answer your question. We've had some users have success with printing castable and pressable parts on the Form 2 and, to be honest, we've had some users with less them optimal results. We are very aware of the current issues people are seeing and I can honestly say we are working on a solution that will fix the issue. The good thing is it's a resin issue not a hardware or printer problem. I would say more but I have to leave it at that, sorry it's not a direct "Yes, do it" or "No, don't do it".</p><p></p><p>To answer your units per liter of resin question:</p><p></p><p>3 unit bridge, with supports - 2.04 ml of resin to print - you can print 490 of these parts with one liter of resin and it would cost about 61 cents per pattern</p><p></p><p>Full contour single, molar, with supports - 1.41 ml of resin to print - you can print 709 of these parts with one liter of resin and it would cost about 42 cents per pattern</p><p></p><p>I just did a full Form 2 build plate with 50/50 single full contour molar and 3 unit bridges and I fit 38 total parts and it will take 5 h 15 mins to print</p><p></p><p>You can always download our nesting software for free, import your STL files and see how much material the print will take and see print times.</p><p><a href="https://formlabs.com/tools/preform/" target="_blank">https://formlabs.com/tools/preform/</a></p><p></p><p>I hope this helps and will add updates when they arise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wainwright, post: 284560, member: 20457"] Hello, As someone who works at Formlabs I can answer your question. We've had some users have success with printing castable and pressable parts on the Form 2 and, to be honest, we've had some users with less them optimal results. We are very aware of the current issues people are seeing and I can honestly say we are working on a solution that will fix the issue. The good thing is it's a resin issue not a hardware or printer problem. I would say more but I have to leave it at that, sorry it's not a direct "Yes, do it" or "No, don't do it". To answer your units per liter of resin question: 3 unit bridge, with supports - 2.04 ml of resin to print - you can print 490 of these parts with one liter of resin and it would cost about 61 cents per pattern Full contour single, molar, with supports - 1.41 ml of resin to print - you can print 709 of these parts with one liter of resin and it would cost about 42 cents per pattern I just did a full Form 2 build plate with 50/50 single full contour molar and 3 unit bridges and I fit 38 total parts and it will take 5 h 15 mins to print You can always download our nesting software for free, import your STL files and see how much material the print will take and see print times. [URL]https://formlabs.com/tools/preform/[/URL] I hope this helps and will add updates when they arise. [/QUOTE]
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