Entry level or mid range, I don’t want to break the bank as it probably won’t get used much but I don’t want to get straight trash either. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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    11 months ago

    SLA is nice and you can make intricate figurines but it’s usefulness is limited. resin is also expensive, and a pain to manage and clean up.

    if it’s your first foray into printing definitely stick with a “normal” filament plastic machine (FDM). you can do a lot more large-form stuff and also make significant inroads into making mechanical/functional parts that could solve problems around your house even. SLA can’t do that. Plus when FDM fucks up bigly it can usually be fix with a screwdriver and 2 sizes of allen key…