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Topic: Form Labs developing a smaller SLS printer....

This was shared in one of my Facebook 3d printing groups...

Formlabs is developing an SLS printer (supposedly) for "home" use.
I personally do not see it so much as a "home" use machine, but for a small business - yes, most definitely.

https://youtu.be/IrFYt3uUdrI

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Re: Form Labs developing a smaller SLS printer....

Nice if you have an extra $10 gs to spend on a hobby printer . 20 if you want the clean up table.

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Re: Form Labs developing a smaller SLS printer....

It's not really a matter of "wanting" the cleanup table.  It's a requirement, but you only need to buy one.  If you buy more printers you can share.   Looks like Desktop Factory was 10 years too soon and $5000 too cheap.  Looking at what is required for SLS, and assuming that Form1 has made theirs as small and cheap as they could get it, I wonder if actual desktop sized version was ever going to be feasible.

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/ … op-factory  The article says that 3D Systems used their IP to create Vflash, but that was a SLA printer.