Reflex 2

Typically, no. There are some engineering grade resins that are equally if not stronger, but you won't be printing them to their full potential in a hobby grade printer. Not only that, but these engineering resins typically need heat on top of UV to be cured properly (specialized post processing mac

The only step up that isn't Formlabs pricing would be Heygears. Check out the Reflex 2 for a bit bigger build volume as the other models are more limiting. I can vouch though that Heygears have amazing machines. They're a breath of fresh air compared to typical hobby grade brands like Elegoo.

Updated my other reply for clarity, I thought I was in a thread concerning minatures for a sec. If you are selling and doing professional work and can afford a Form then its the best you can get that isnt industrial grade, but it's a costly ecosystem. Some higher grade resins, but their trays are ev

Heygears Reflex 2 is a solid option without the Formlabs price tag. Otherwise you get a Form printer.

Elegoo is actually on the better end, hate to tell you. Anycubic is ass and Phrozen are often actively hostile. Not sure about Uniformation’s support, but I generally consider that company a dumpster fire anyways. Heygears are the best built of the consumer printers under $1K, but still a Chinese co

It sounds like you don't necessarily want functional parts but you want accurate prototypes to iterate on? The Heygears Reflex 2 is probably the only thing less expensive than a Form printer that might be able to do this. Maybe the original Reflex too, but less so, it really depends on how accurate

Ah yes, becaue I like a printer that was hated on, i now "only" like Heygears - I mean lets ignore the fact that i tore the Reflex 2 apart and said it was terrible, Praised the Anycubic P1 Max, and the M7 Max before it. Yeah, we shouldn't talk about any of that becasue it would get in the way of you

If you mean for miniatures and hobby sort of stuff, nope. If you mean for prosumer stuff then the Reflex 2 is amazing for less cost and might be worth checking into before spending as much as a Formlabs printers cost. Being stuck in the Formlabs ecosystem is not a cheap ride where with Heygears, you

Nah form 2 is too old at this point. Form 3 isn’t the worst idea but it’s very slow compared to what’s out there today. Still great quality but slow. I have both consumer printers like Bambu and elegoo, as well as prosumer such as Heygears reflex 2. Unless you are printing things that actually requi

I really like HeyGears printers. I owned the OG Reflex a couple years ago, but the build plate was just a little on the small side, and the perforated plate all but ruled out printing directly on the plate. With the Reflex 2 I feel they’ve abandoned some of the features that made the Reflex such a p