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Designing parts for resin printing vs. filament printing

Designing parts for resin printing vs. filament printing - Microsoft Teams Tutorial

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Designing parts for resin printing vs. filament printing

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- [Instructor] If you're used to designing 3D printed parts to print as fast as possible with a filament based printer, you'll need to learn some new habits to do the same for a resin printer. In many cases, the features and orientations that are challenging and slow to print in resin are the same ones that are easiest to print with filament. In a filament 3D print, you want to have as much contact area with the build platform as possible. Resin prints on the other hand, often avoid touching the platform at all and instead print entirely on top of support structures. With the resin print, you want to minimize the cross section of each layer to manage peel forces. This means that any flat surface will want to be vertical or at most a steep angle to the platform. Because of this, resin prints virtually always have support to avoid excessive flat surfaces in any layer. Typically, prints are suspended by a support and angle above…

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