Hello!
At Product Chart, we research and publish the specifications of many popular 3D Printers. To give users an overview what these specs mean, we started putting together an info page about it:
http://www.productchart.com/3d\_printers/info/
Would love to get some feedback if we got those right. The specs are losely ordered by importance.
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It is a nice reference to learn about the basic concepts of 3D printing. Thanks! (as far as I know everything looks correct).
Looks good overall. Two nitpicks:
1. As far as I’m aware the three main classifications of 3D printers are FDM, SLA, and SLS (Selective Laser Sintering), with DLP almost being a subset of SLA since it uses the same process, just with a projector instead of a laser. However, nowadays there are so many other processes (PolyJet, 3DP, LOM, etc) that it seems almost unfair to classify DLP as a process but not, say, PolyJet.
2. You can’t really say that 1.75mm is the most popular overall. I believe there are some areas where 2.85mm is much more common, and it does help 2.85mm that some of the most popular printers in the world, the Ultimakers, use it.
Thanks! I updated the page, dropeed DLP and added SLS. I also added 2.85mm as a “common diameter”.
