Announcement: New Cure! New Tough 1500! + a long list of Software Updates!

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Happy Announcement day, Formlabs Community!

Today, we’re excited to announce two major upgrades to our post-processing and materials lineup. Faster, more reliable, and built for performance. Form Cure (2nd Generation) and Tough 1500 Resin V2 plus a group of Software upgrades. We’re thrilled to share this bundle of new products and features with you today because so many of these (if not all) have been a thanks to your user feedback here on the forums, directly to our employees at trade shows and through beta testing. Avid Formlabs users will find a Lot of quick wins and time savings in these updates. Let’s get to it! So, here’s what’s new:

:high_voltage: Form Cure (2nd Generation)

  • Cure most parts in just 60 seconds with 2x to 8.6x faster speeds
  • Near instant heat-up. Reach 60°C in 60 seconds for 230 V version or 80 seconds for 120 V version
  • Uniform, reliable results with a powerful 48-LED array and convective heating
  • Fits large prints up to 245 mm tall on a spacious 235 mm turntable
  • Simplified workflow with pre-programmed cycles and an easy-to-clean design

:flexed_biceps: Tough 1500 V2: Our toughest material yet. A win for toughness and aging. Here are some stats of Tough 1500 v2 compared to Tough 1500 v1:

  • 10x higher fracture toughness and 3x better thin-wall impact performance
  • 155% elongation at break for ductile, long-lasting parts
  • High environmental stability against heat, UV, and moisture
  • Tough parts that don’t deform with high creep resistance

Tought 1500 comparison

:laptop: A laundry list of new software features:

  • SLA

    • Bundled Supports: Group support pillars for easier removal. You saw this in PreForm 3.44
    • Rapid Print Time Estimate Upgrade: Real-time estimates in PreForm!
    • Auto Drain Cartridge: Use every last bit of your resin in a much easier way. Save time and a mess by automatically emptying the last bits of resin in your resin cartridges.
    • Reduced Noise levels : Form 4 and 4B and L by 63% (cooling fan drive).

  • SLA + SLS:

    • 10 CAD file imports! You’ve asked, we updated! 10 new file formats that you can upload directly into PreForm - including STEP, Solidworks, 3MF, Jupiter Tesillation, Catia v5, PTC Creo,
    • Group Queues: Create groups in Dashboard to print to a printer queue instead of an individual printer.
    • Cloud Slicing: PreForm speeds up print prep by using the cloud instead of your laptop for faster processing. Especially helpful for large prints.

  • SLS:

    • Add to Running Job: For all you Fuse users out there who change plans mid-print and want to add instead of waiting until it’s finished
    • More languages in PreForm!: Beyond English - Spanish, Italian, German, French, Japanese, Chinese.

Check out today’s Keynote by Max, Kyle (our Head of SLA Product) and Adrienne Bolger (Software Engineering Manager) for all the details.

Everything is available now! We’re obsessed with making printing and post-processing a simple, painless experience and we hope these updates do just that for you. We can’t wait to hear your feedback and questions!

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Tough 1500 V2 looks really useful. Is there any chance of using it in a Form 2 or 3, or is it 4 only?

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Hey @Amanda1 thanks for your question! It’s only compatible with Form 4, Form 4B, Form 4L, Form 4BL.

More details (strength are directly on the product page and the Tough 1500 v2 Technical Data Sheet.

Don’t hesitate with more questions,
Diana

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I really think there should be an effort on Formlabs part to at least attempt to get the newer resins to print decently on the older printers.

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Awesome update! ive been trialing the new cure station for a bit and the speed is a major improvement. Gone are the days of long preheating times. Super exited to try the V2 tough 1500 resin also

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I also am loving the new cure unit, sooooo much faster :fire:

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Will a new version of Tough 1500 with improved properties be developed for the Form 3, 3+?

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Hey @CarlosTIN, thanks for your question. Chemically, we aren’t able to adjust Tough 1500 v2 for the Form 3/3+ system. While we’re committed to bringing new materials to Form 3 when possible—like we did with Clear Cast, for example —Tough 1500 V2 relies on a new chemistry that requires the newer Form 4 Resin Tank only, which unfortunately isn’t compatible with the Form 3.

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How long will tough 1500 v1 still be available for those of us with Form 3s?

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Hey @StarFlicker thanks for asking - If we upgrade a resin for Form 4, the Form 3 version will still exist until we stop supporting Form 3 printers (until at least Jan 2028), or the particular resin becomes so unpopular that the sales volume is too small to continue producing.

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