UniFormation S10: a resin printer that also washes and dries your prints
Anyone who prints with resin knows the print is only half the job. Afterwards comes the messy part: lifting a part still wet with uncured resin off the plate, carrying it to a wash station, letting it dry, then curing it under UV. Every handoff is another chance to get resin on your gloves or desk. UniFormation's new S10 tries to remove those handoffs, and I find the idea genuinely interesting.
The S10 uses a 16K mono LCD with a 405 nm light source. When the print ends, the platform rotates to drain excess resin, a cover slides over the vat, and the part moves to a wash tank that holds up to 9 L. It is washed in two cycles, with the platform moving side to side and then tilting to drain, before turning to face a drying port that blows air at 35-45 degrees C, all behind one closed door.
It is not fully hands-off yet. You still need to take the model out, remove the supports and post-cure it, though an optional plug-and-play curing module snaps into the machine. The build volume is 223 x 125.9 x 200 mm. It ships pre-leveled with automatic resin feeding and heating, and pressure sensors are meant to catch foreign objects in the vat. It works with Chitubox and Lychee as well as the company's own slicer, which has five resin profiles.
For print farms there is also an optional S10 Fluid Hub that serves up to three machines and recycles the wash fluid in a two-stage process to make IPA last longer. The maker is aiming first at tabletop gamers and miniature painters. A Kickstarter campaign is coming, so real-world results are still to be seen, but a cleaner resin workflow is something I would like to see succeed.
Source: 3Dnatives
The S10 uses a 16K mono LCD with a 405 nm light source. When the print ends, the platform rotates to drain excess resin, a cover slides over the vat, and the part moves to a wash tank that holds up to 9 L. It is washed in two cycles, with the platform moving side to side and then tilting to drain, before turning to face a drying port that blows air at 35-45 degrees C, all behind one closed door.
It is not fully hands-off yet. You still need to take the model out, remove the supports and post-cure it, though an optional plug-and-play curing module snaps into the machine. The build volume is 223 x 125.9 x 200 mm. It ships pre-leveled with automatic resin feeding and heating, and pressure sensors are meant to catch foreign objects in the vat. It works with Chitubox and Lychee as well as the company's own slicer, which has five resin profiles.
For print farms there is also an optional S10 Fluid Hub that serves up to three machines and recycles the wash fluid in a two-stage process to make IPA last longer. The maker is aiming first at tabletop gamers and miniature painters. A Kickstarter campaign is coming, so real-world results are still to be seen, but a cleaner resin workflow is something I would like to see succeed.
Source: 3Dnatives
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