SLA modeling

[greenxman]

so is anyone doing production sla printing?

can you make money doing it.

it would be abs plastic

[Oscar R.]

A couple places out in Valencia, CA. are doing some low volume production stuff. Solid Concepts and Scicon Technologies Inc.

I'm sure there's money to be made but the equipment is still pretty expensive. The cost to actually have product made (SLA) is also still pretty high so it's mostly high end customers or one off prototyping. 

 

The closest to production and best I've come across, by far, is a New York based company called Shapeways. They're doing some really cool stuff with all kinds of materials from simple plastics to precious metals.

 

Hope that helps.

[Jayson Kramer]

When I was a manager for solid concepts they had a few SLS machines dedicated to production full time. I was in there the begging of the year and they are still running these.

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Does it have to be SLA? Plenty of places doing ABS SLS and FDM, which are some cheaper and much cheaper respectively.  Whether or not production would be profitable depends on the part and quantities I'm sure.

[greenxman]

thanks for the reply

the customer i have may want abs sls

if it goes anywhere i will post it for the curious minds