Former employees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have either a spinoff company founded for the production of a 3d-printer at high resolution can be manufactured. This should better models can be made.
The 3d printer developed by Formlabs, where former MIT employees are employed. They had committed a relatively cheap 3d printer to develop a high resolution can produce: the so far available and affordable 3d printers like the MakerBot Replicator and various do-it-yourself projects print quite coarse. That would be for professional designers insufficient, while machines that the desired quality, however get very pricey.
The Form 1 was developed by the company for the gap between relatively cheap 3d printers for home-use and professional 3d printers to be sealed. The Form 1 was with a budget of half a million dollars a year developed and costs hardly more than the currently available entry-level 3d printers. After a limited edition of twenty-five pieces that 2300 dollar costs, would later instances between the 2500 and 2700 dollar cost.
The 3d printer uses liquid resin instead of melted plastic that the MakerBot Replicator 2 works. From a bath of resin to be objects with a light beam, layer by layer cured. The resolution per ‘printed’ layer is 25 µm: the MakerBot makes layers of 100 µm thick. The volume of work Form 1 is quite limited: that amounts to 4,9 from 4,9 to 6,5 inches. After the production of 3d objects, which is also transparent, the resin has to be cleaned with a special clean-up kit.
