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Does anyone know how much more expensive resin is when compared to Filament? For example to print a 6" cube, how much more would it cost? I'm loving the resin printers, but I also love to make prototypes of my designs and remake them over and over again as I improve on them. Is Resin really a whole lot more expensive?
A solid 6" cube would have a volume of 3.54 litres.
For resin :
Makerjuice SubG+ is $45/litre, and the 3.5% shrinkage will require you to print 3.67 litres of resin, so you'd need $165.15 worth to print it.
Makerjuice SubG, which is $40/litre, and the 8% shrinkage will require you to print 3.85 litres of resin, brings the cost down to $154.00.
Formlabs resin is $149/litre, which brings the cost to $527.46. Price will probably be higher than that due to shrinkage, but Formlabs doesn't seem to specify the resin shrinkage anywhere I can find.
For filament :
A 1kg spool of 1.75mm PLA is about 330m long, giving a volume of about 800ml, so you'd need 4.4 spools. Makerbot sells it for $48/spool (ordinary solid colour), so that's $211.20 worth of filament.
A 1kg spool of 1.75mm ABS filament would be about 400m long, giving a volume of 962ml, so you'd need 3.68 spools. Makerbot sells it for $48/spool also, so that's $176.63.
Pushplastic sells both PLA and ABS for $19/kg, which would cut the costs to $83.60 and $69.91, respectively.
Wow, this really puts things in perspective. No wonder everything I hear about SLA printing talks about MakerJuice.
Also there's nearly a 200% markup for brand name over generic both with resin and filament? That seems kinda crazy.
I'm not sure that that is a correct comparison. Does anybody have any experience printing with a SLA printer? How much does a liter of the resin actually print? My guess is that the volume of the polymerized plastic will be greater than the un-polymerized liquid but I'm not sure by much.
How do you care for the liquid? Will it evaporate? How much will it polymerize in a sunny room?
Ah, forgot about that. Makerjuice specifies 8% shinkage for SubG and 3.5% for SubG+. No such information seems to be available from Formlabs for their resin.Quote:
Originally Posted by KDog
I've edited my post with the adjusted numbers. Accounting for shrinkage increased the cost of the SubG+ by $6 and the SubG cost by just over $12.
Compro, so according to this, it's not really any cheaper to use Filament over Resin than unless you use Pushplastic?
Or any number of other cheaper providers. I just used Makerbot as an example of an "official" source and pushplastic as an example of an "alternative" source. I just used pushplastic for the example because I saw the name in the self-promotion section. There's lots of other places to buy it from.Quote:
Originally Posted by Markum_Debreeze
Looking on Amazon, I see kilo spools for $30-ish, which is right in the middle between makerbot and pushplastic.
Is the MakerJuice resin any good? Seems like a really good price, but doesn't it cure correctly and do the builds turn out as nice?
Anything you see from the peachy printer guys uses makerjuice.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndrewK
They're also collaborating to make a resin specifically designed for the peachy.
The prints they display on the makerjuce site look pretty nice.
Hi guysQuote:
Originally Posted by KDog
I'm with Kdog. It's not a simple comparation. SLA (resin) brings a high detailed model printed, as much more than ABS or PLA FDM printing. So how much that feature?