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Form 3 and Form 3L, the new SLA 3D printers from Formlabs
With more than 50,000 units sold of its Form 2 3D printer, the American manufacturer Formlabs is the market leader in SLA desktop 3D printing. At the Hannover Messe event, the manufacturer took the opportunity to unveil its latest generation of…
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With more than 50,000 units sold of its Form 2 3D printer, the American manufacturer Formlabs is the market leader in SLA desktop 3D printing. At the Hannover Messe event, the manufacturer took the opportunity to unveil its latest generation of machines, the Form 3 and Form 3L, based on a brand new printing process called Low Force Stereolithography (LFS).
A new process at the heart of Formlabs’ latest generation of printers
According to Formlabs, the LFS process uses a custom laser and mirror system to polymerise isotropic solid parts from liquid photosensitive resin with high precision.
“We have completely rethought our approach to resin 3D printing with the LFS (Low Force Stereolithography) printing process on which the Form 3 and Form 3L printers are based,” commented Max Lobovsky, CEO and co-founder of Formlabs.
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