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I was interested in the thread for the same reason, but after looking at pictures of the output on a couple of sites I don't think the €500 machines are really up to it. You'd have to do a fair bit of work before the models were usable, and even then the fine detail isn't really there. Currently trying to convince my boss to spend €12000 on one of the professional ones 
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Cakefool posted:They were judging a round of the Toyota Technology challenge at work today, Normally I pop in and have a look at what the schools have whipped up and today one of the schools had a 3d printer they were using to make complicated parts of their solar racecars, it was a RapMan 3, stepper motored, laser-cut acrylic construction with threaded rod support, the sample prints they had on the table were incredible. Wow, that really is impressive. It still doesn't have particularly fine detail, but that's a huge print area. I think that's why the models look smoother, check the scale - those screws are 6 inches long.
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Where do you get 5 grand from? The article says €1200, which is what, $1700? I think the price of the resin is going to be the important thing for the liquid based ones, and there doesn't seem to be anything about that in the article unfortunately.
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Giant robot builder Jamie Mantzel (check it out if you haven't heard of him, the guy's amazing) has a 3D printer, which seems likely to lead to awesome things. There are a couple of videos about him using it, but I thought the one about printing large objects without using a heated build platform might be useful to someone here.
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Penetration depth of the UV into the resin probably has an effect too.
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