How many years do you think we will have to wait? And what should we expect?
Good question… we been on the fence about getting another Fuse 1+ for over 6 months but with all the email surveys that we been getting this year asking “what we’d like to see in the next Fuse?”, we too have been very hesitant to pull the trigger too soon.
We learned our lesson whenever we spent weeks talking to Formlabs about the first Fuse and our production goals, to then receive the Fuse 1, “literally the week” the Fuse 1+ was announced!!
Was very frustrating … as with production parts in a smaller space, having one Fuse 1+ was like having two Fuse 1’s due to it printing twice as fast.
Our input has only been for a slightly larger build volume on the X and Y as our larger parts just barely do not fit in the current chamber…by like an inch.
However, I’m not sure how likely this will be with the current chamber and Sift ecosystem.
I know a lot of people wish for a “cheaper” SLS machine so hopefully the Fuse 1 is good enough for those people. We would rather take a more expensive machine that is more capable for production running parts…I’ll pay more money for the machine…and only ask for “cheaper powder”!
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Even in my company I would have the ok to buy two fuse1+ printers but I prefer to wait for the next generation, hoping for a greater print volume and also a better resolution in z, 0.1mm is a bit too much to have a good print resolution, with HP I have 0.08mm on z and it is a 5 year old machine. However, I am curious to see how the pieces printed in white PA12 are, if they looked like those printed with HP it would be a really great thing because the other SLS printers have a really ugly white and tend to yellow quickly. The HP one, on the other hand, resists perfectly to months and months of UV exposure to the sun.
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The White PA12 is Nitro only.
Sorry, what do you mean? Do you mean that it prints only in nitrogen atmosphere? Yes, that is ok, even though HP does not use nitrogen but has a pa12 powder with some chemicals in it (I think titanium dioxide) to keep it white.
Correct. Spoke to Formlabs yesterday and they said White is Nitrogen specific. Due to discoloration etc.
Yes but that wouldn’t be a problem, the fuse1+ can already use nitrogen for printing.