r/3dprinter • u/Sk8er_Infinity • 1d ago
Questions
I was looking at getting a 3d printer, and was suggested to buy a Bambu brand one. Whats the best 3d printer for making anime figures? Should I get a resin printer or regular filament printer? If I got a resin one, can it print any usual 3d printer file or does it have to be specific ones?
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u/Livid-Yak1015 1d ago
if you do get a fdm printer your definitely want to get a 0.2mm nozzle for figures
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u/daveintexarkana 1d ago
on speed, I have a Uniformation GK3 Pro, though it's faster than my FormLabs Form 2, it's still much slower than my FDM printers, even my older Prusa Mk4/S. If you get the settings and the supports right, it can print very nicely (resin). There's ways to approximate with FDM and vapor smoothing after.
I'm not sure how large/small the models are you are considering, but a figurine say 50 mm square on my FDM at super high resolution might take 2 hours - on the Resin printer it's 5-8 hours depending or orientation and layers. Resin with the new LCD mats prints the whole layer at a time so it doesn't make much difference how big it is x-y, but Z has a big effect on time to print, especially running a standard .05 resolution whereas a 0.1 resolutiion is considered pretty fine on the FDM but prints with half the layers so generally faster.
I do some stuff at .12 in FDM (others use the smaller nozzle mentioned and do that easily) and I always use .05 on the resin printers (not experienced enough to try other layer heights.
That's just my experience so far - to me the FDM is much more flexible for most of what I print and I don't do figurines so I focus more on that. I have resin printed for instance a custom light switch cover for my son that fit a sensor and switch - about the size of a double gang cover, and it took about 8 hours on the resin printer. I did it to test dimensions on FDM and it was less than an hour. Hope some of that helps - good luck!
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u/Lonewolf2nd 1d ago
The 3d file has to go through a program called a Slicer. This program will create the correct instructions for the printer to make the print. So you can print any usual 3d file on both type of printers.
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u/Chas_- 14h ago
You can slice and start the print. Fact is not every file created with resin in mind will result in successfully results on a FDM printer.
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u/Lonewolf2nd 13h ago
And visa versa, it are different techniques and different materials, but most you can print on both. With the multi tool head printers these days, with possibilty of using supports without any space between(soluble filament or the PLA/PETG combination) the amount of things you can print increases big time. Aslong you use the correct slicer and settings. But the small fragile stuff like mini figures, I would reconment Resin.
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u/SirTwitchALot 1d ago
For minis and statues nothing beats resin. Make sure you understand the environmental requirements of resin though. It's toxic stuff. You can have it safely in your home, but you need ventilation and PPE. FDM can get decent results, but it's really slow and you need to do a lot of dialing in.