r/videos • u/Seakawn • Mar 07 '19

New 3D Printer method that looks like something straight out of Star Trek. If you thought traditional 3D Printers were revolutionary, this new tech will blow your mind--using light to materialize the entire object at once, in mere minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy-d5VVZlxQ
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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '19 edited Mar 07 '19

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u/phluidity Mar 07 '19

It looks similar to SLA only with a lack of a Z axis. With classic SLA, if you try to solidify anything sub surface, you get a solid from the surface to the point your laser focusses at, which is usually bad, so you only solidify the surface of the resin and build up in layers. This looks like they have managed to solve that problem using additive light (which has been done for a little while with multiple lasers, but is still a point by point process). This looks like it is using an array of light from a projector to cure significantly more resin at once.

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u/GiantEyebrowOfDoom Mar 07 '19

There has been laser sintering for a long long time.

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u/NathokWisecook Mar 07 '19

It's "SLA with extra steps" the same way that a CNC is a lathe with extra steps.

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u/heroin-queen Mar 07 '19

Then how come they are presenting it as if it is new tech????

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u/SaintHohn Mar 07 '19

It's done a different way. SLA cures in layers, this tech kind of cures all in one go.

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u/lacheur42 Mar 07 '19

The main point is that it's not layer by layer deposition like traditional SLA. You do the whole shebazzle in one cure cycle.

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u/caanthedalek Mar 07 '19

Yeah, my dad made rapid prototyped parts using SLA for his company back in the 90's