
The resin printers are a little fussy, take longer and require clean up and liquid handling, but the fine detail is absolutely unbelievable - and you can even use some models of resin printers to print PCBs, as an added bonus.īTW many of the resin 3D printing how-to videos on youtube are very informative, to the point and well produced. It may also be that a 3rd party has created slicer functionality for Fusion 360 that would be cool, and make Fusion 360 a very attractive option. )Then another 2 hours to learn and bring-up the printer and its software. With Fusion 360 I estimate a newbee bring-up and learning curve of four hours (to the point were you can model a very simple hollow box shape for your Arduino, save it to a file the printer software can understand. Best Software for 3D Printing: GrabCAD Print GrabCAD Print is free software capable of working with the entire Stratasys FDM line (sans Mojo), as well as the Connex3, J750, and Objet1000 PolyJet machines. It includes slicing software - so all up with resin, and a small $20, spinning UV curing setup, and lots of paper towels and gloves, you can be creating parts for around $200USD (You can learn about the differences between SOLIDWORKS Standard, Professional and Premium here). Best 3D printer for beginners 349 at Amazon AnkerMake M5 Speed and quality combined 800 at Best Buy Anycubic Vyper Best for out-of-the-box printing 339 at Anycubic NEW CNET Shopping. The printer I use and really like is the affordable Anycubic Photon Resin printer at around $150USD.

I use Solidworks, which is cost prohibitive for hobby level, but Fusion 360 is free, I believe, for hobbyists, and appears to be so good I may cancel Solidworks.
