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Re: Acquiring a 3D Printer?
Our school has a few Formlabs SLA printers (1 and 1+). They can produce very good parts, but there is a fair bit of upkeep that is required. I haven’t used them for robot parts, but I have used them to produce small precision parts for F1 In Schools. They seem fairly reliable, and the Design and Technology Department use them as part of their curriculum in which they are used to produce probably around 80-100ish parts per year. That said I probably wouldn’t recommend an SLA printer to a team just wanting to make a few parts here and there.
An FDM printer is going to be quicker, easier and cheaper to run for the style of parts that FRC teams commonly make.
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