I recently tried the “Modeling Plus” (Olive green) resin from Applylabs, as a replacement for the “Durable” (and super-expensive) Formlabs resin.
Apart from the hassle of the “Labs” mode, the results are quite convincing, specially considering that I make parts for real-life use.
With enough thickness, I end up with rugged parts that can be used as accessories for specific tooling we need on construction sites.
As discussed in another topic, the fact that the printer stops after 100ml is a real pain in the neck.
I have asked for a user-triggered “Pause for refill” which would allow to max-out the autonomy of the printer when you need lo leave it un-attended, but Formlabs seems to be deaf to my request.
I’m looking forward to try other types of “engineering” resins from Applylabs, and eventually standard modeling resins when I’m back to printing stuff for the sake of aesthetics only.
Oh, and I agree that the bottles suck 