3D Printing optical grade glass on a form2?

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heys,

I read this article recently and was wondering if there was any thoughts from people here printing optical quality glass with custom resin mixes on a form2? maybe in open source mode perhaps?.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/how-to-3d-print-optical-grade-glass

It probably would need a little final polishing perhaps for small lenses an things like that but seems pretty cool! just wondering if anyone’s tried it out and what the results were like…

cheers,
Carl

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You beat me to it - I was just coming here to post a request for FL to develop some resin like this!

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Also, maybe they could develop resin like this but with alumina instead of silica particles? That would be the bomb.

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yeah it would be interesting to see! :slight_smile:

also RE alumina / other metals Desktop metal seem to be getting a bit of news lately!