I’m hosting an Additive Manufacturing hardware meetup in around 2 weeks in Vancouver, Canada (Additive Manufacturing with Ember Prototypes · Luma).
I’ll be bringing my Form 4L to the event and hoping to print something in real time.
Just wondering if anyone here has a cool, large example print of a real, functional part that’s pre-sliced and ready to go on the machine that I could consider printing onsite. It can either be a single large part, or several parts arrayed over the build plate.
Ideally the print would take around 3-4 hours so it can complete by the end of the event. Thanks in advance! 
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Hey @leonhart88 !
We have two pretty great prints to share for printing in clear: 1 is a Shoe compression mold and the other is a batch production run of medical mallets. Both around 4 hours.
[Note for functional mallet usage we recommend ideally printing in durable or biomed durable].
Hope these help!
Mallets 4 hrs_4L.form (5.1 MB)
Shoe Compression Mold 4 h 8 m.form (1.5 MB)
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Thanks @verdugod! I’ve been working with Jillian from support and we chose to go with the mallets so everyone can take one home 
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BTW was that shoe mold printed flat!? I am very impressed if yes…I haven’t tried huge flat parts like that in a very long a time 
With supports! Would be pretty difficult to get that sized print off, direct from the build platform if it isn’t a flexible platform.
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Hey @leonhart88 I’m mistaken! I just learned from @henryqiu that the shoe mold was actually indeed printed flat on BP without supports (!), there are drain holes for cupping and therefore don’t require supports anywhere : )
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Crazy! I will have to try it another time. Currently have the mini mallets ready to go 
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Mallets came out great
After this initial print, I actually modified the .form file to fit even more pieces on there and make it easier for part removal as well 
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Whatta batch! They look great!!
Hello Leonhart88,
Could you share how you post process them?
I can’t get our products as clear as that, they always look dull after washing and curing.
These parts had zero post processing. Just removed from the build plate and washed.
Clear V5 (on the Form 4 and 4L) have better clarity than Clear V4.
Also, anecdotally, thicker clear parts tend to look clearer than thin walled clear parts. I think this has something to do with layer alignment and registration (ie. thin walls are less stiff and move around more so the layers don’t line up as perfect causing optical abberations)…so it kind of depends on geometry too.
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Are you washing with IPA or with Resin Wash Solution?
We got the machine with Resin Wash Solution so we started with that.
After washing there would always be a sticky layer remaining and after curing that would turn dull.
Today we switched to 100% IPA and immediately better results in clear resin.
Interesting…I’ve always used IPA because I can distill it with my solvent recycler!
