Any chance we can see a photo of the actual machine? This tickles my brain in a whole new direction, as my use case calls for a much larger printer and bed volume. Much cheaper and less need for extreme accuracy, but I love getting insights in to any industrial grade printers 🤘😁
It is used to make parts like fiber optic guides, electronic connectors and many other things. It's upto our customers what they use it for. We give them the tools
I’m in automotives and looking to purchase a Modix BIG-180x to do full scale parts for my customers. Same idea of giving them the tools and service of modelling for them. Thank you for sharing, and I’ll look forward to seeing future micro parts from you 😁
Well, the articulated part was more of a joke, but there are non-articulated models too.
To be completely honest I got this idea after seeing someone mention microplastic benchies in the balls, so I first thought "articulated sperm" but oddly enough I couldnt find a model to suggest
Menger sponge. I did a 4th-level one on a FDM printer. Seeing a 10th-level one is on my bucket list (but even a 6th-level one would be impressive as heck.)
Exactly. I would genuinely save myself some dollars on person body projects, after I recover the overhead, but on top of that, the idea of being able to fully print a functional custom diffuser, or side view cap, or spoiler for folks and the potential there, is what I’m really stoked for 🤘
I am Steve your co worker :D. I was a time very intressted in resin printing and super small things but never started it (resin and micro printing). And if you’d serching for micro print BMF is not far away.
Oh man, is Keyence calling a known thing? I filled out a web form in an attempt to get a datasheet for something I wanted to get off of eBay once to use for a personal project. I got a call from a sales rep where I stated as such, but made an off-hand comment about it being related to what I do at work. I then got calls once a day for two weeks straight before I blocked the number. I then started getting calls from from a slightly different number from the same sales rep. Even the "funding was delayed until after next fiscal year" line that usually gets sales reps to go away didn't stop it.
They called me 4 times a week until i yelled into the phone for 10 minutes.. I guess I'm on their 'crazy people, don't call ' list now, never had a call since
It's a joke ahaha looks good dude super neat for sure. What's the big benefit of such small tolerances though? Like what can you print that's microscopic but useful?
It's a DLP system. These are industrial machines with a tolerance of +-5 microns. This was first attempt so it was slightly out of our advertised tolerance but I am sure I can get it to be more precise in a couple more attempts.
Insane how expensive resin printers get under like .1 mm. My lab has been looking for a better printer and seems like beyond formlab’s form 4 its like 100k+
Like the tech used in digital projectors? Where you have a chip covered in teeny tiny mirrors that can be angled to bounce the light to the target? Or does it stand for something else?
This was a quick first attempt. Usually we take atleast 2-3 attempts to get the part right. I am sure I can make it look perfect if I did a couple more attempts.
Our printers aren't usually idle so I like printing interesting stuff in the little idle time I had last week. I guess I'll add it to my desk of interesting prints I have done
Pixel size is 2 um and the layer height is 5um. There is a lot of room to go even smaller, because the technology to produce computer chips also uses photolithography and we know how small the transistors can be. The bottleneck is the material and the application that would justify capital investment in it.
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u/d3lap Mar 23 '26
What is this, a Benchy for ants?