Industrial SLA

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Standard Service

Industrial SLA (Stereolithography) is an advanced 3D printing technology that originated in 1986, making it the very first 3D printing technology invented. 40 years later the industrial SLA platform continues to lead the industry in surface quality, accuracy and speed.

Our standard SLA process is particularly suited for creating high-quality accurate prints and complex geometries with an injection molded look and feel.

Serving home innovators through to design engineers, hobbyist model makers to film & TV prop houses. Industrial SLA can even lend itself to short-production runs of parts and components, but like any method of manufacturing there are constraints and considerations.

Key Details

  • Cost: $$$ – $$$$
  • Build Size:  600x600x400mm x 4 and 800x800x550mm x 2
  • Layer Resolution: Fine layers from 0.05-0.1mm. Optimized orientation for best overall surface finish and dimensional accuracy
  • Typical Accuracy: +/-0.1mm per 100mm
  • Minimum Wall Thickness:  0.4mm limit. 0.8mm recommended
  • Lead Time: 1-3 days
  • Short Production: 3-14 days

Materials

  • ABS-like translucent white. A good general purpose resin for accurate prototypes, molds, visual models and short production when suited.
  • PP-like translucent clear. Good clarity, made better with clear coating. It’s also our toughest SLA resin with better impact resistance and ductility.
  • High-Temp amber translucent clear. Temperature resistance from 90-145C geometry dependent. Great for short run vacuum forming tools, molds and prototypes. Please bear in mind that High-Temp resins are more brittle by nature.

Finishing Options

  • Painting
  • Basic black: We spray paint your parts with a matte or satin black at low cost. Printing in black resin does not offer a uniform finish, so painting is the preferred option.
  • Quick clear: We sand your part further through to 600 grit and apply a clear coat for greatly increased clarity to our PP-like translucent clear resin.
  • Custom colours: We spray paint your parts with your chosen custom colour.

Economy Service

The Economy service delivers great quality SLA prints at a lower price point than our Standard service.

This is made possible through a coarser layer resolution, and decreasing hands-on labor during post-processing by limiting sanding and excluding media blasting.

Best suited to medium-large geometries. With a 5-7 day lead time your parts are still produced in a timely manner.

Key Details

  • Cost: $$ – $$$
  • Build Size: 600x600x400mm x 2 and 800x800x550mm x 2
  • Layer Resolution: Coarser layers from 0.12-0.15mm
  • Typical Accuracy: +/-0.2mm per 100mm
  • Minimum Wall Thickness: 1mm
  • Longer Time: 5-7 days
  • Short Production: 10-14 days

Materials

  • ABS-like translucent white. A good general purpose resin for accurate prototypes, molds, visual models and short production.

Finishing Options

Finishing options are not available for  SLA Economy Service. However, Economy SLA prints are much easier to sand, prep and paint to a high level for you when compared to FDM prints. 

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