3DPrinter:Resins

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Siraya

  • Fast - Standard resin. Can print fast at reasonably low temperatures (for resin) and with less smell than most. My standard resin.
  • Simple - Only needs 15% alcohol to clean
  • Tenacious - More flexible, most people use this as a mix-in to give brittle resins a little bit of give, but it can also be printed on its own for a semi-flexi print.
  • Sculpt - tough, high-heat resin. Doesn't heat deform until 160C/320F. Often used for things like vulcanizing rubber molds. I've used to to print negative molds to heat-press other materials and it works great.
  • Sculpt Ultra - similar to Sculpt, but higher heat resistance (220C/428F), only available in white. Made with ceramic powder.
  • Blu - A tough resin for functional parts (I've never used it, so I can't speak to how durable or what kind of durable it is, but Siraya's marketing elsewhere is an accurate representation of their products, so I believe them).
  • Build - Low distortion and shrinkage, for when you need more precise prints. All resin shrinks when it's cured, and it shrinks non-uniformly (IE, thicker areas shrink more than thinner areas).
  • Cast - A wax-based resin for printing things that will be used in lost-wax casting process. A specialty resin that you either REALLY need or don't need at all.
  • Form - Have a Formlabs printer? Don't want to spend Formlabs amounts of money on your resin? This is for you. Don't have a Formlabs printer? Look elsewhere.
  • Craft - It glows in the dark.
  • Easy - I believe this has been superseded by Simple. At the very least, I haven't seen them selling it for a very long time.