Hello, Igata-san -
I have 2 questions about your post:
1) What do you mean by "SLA7000 Laser Power 230/800mW"?
2) What do SLA7000E and SLA7000F mean?
Thank you,
-Steve Stewart
igata tetsuzo wrote:
>
> We saw several messages regarding questions on the 3D SLA7000. Please
> allow
> Incs to explain. We are INCS, the largest service bureau in Japan and Asia
> with 14 systems (3 SLA 5000's, 3 SLA 500s, 4 250s, 1 3500 and one Actua.)
> We are one of the other first site of the new SLA-7000 Production
> SolidImager.
> The machine was delivered and set up only a few days ago and is already
> running very well.
> We had done several benchmarks with our other three SLA-5000 machines.
> We wanted to believe the speed and quality numbers that 3D Systems had said
> the machine could do. But we were not so sure. So, we have done six medium
> sized parts during the first day.
> We used the new Lightyear software, and ran real customer data on the
> SLA7000 with the fast Build style at 0.125mm and simulated the exact style
> at .025mm. We compared this with Actual build times on the SLA 5000.
> Please note that the 7000 can build parts with .025mm layers faster than the
> 5000
> can build with .15mm layers. Lightyear was also much faster as you can see
> and very easy to use. 3D tells us that the final version of Lightyear will
> be even faster. Lightyear accepts .STL data just like Maestro but you only
> have to work with one interface on one screen. Very Easy.
> The software was run on the following configurations:
>
> Maestro
> SGI OCTANE
> IRIX 6.4, R10000, 195MHZ
> 640MB RAM, 9.1GB Disc
>
> 3D Lightyear
> INTERGRAPH TDZ2000GT1
> Windows NT PII 450MHZ x 2
> 512MB RAM 9GB Disc
>
> SLA5000 Laser Power 200mW
> SLA7000 Laser Power 230/800mW
>
> Build Time comparisons
> ******************
> Cylinder Head 1/4 scale Data Size 35.6MB
>
> SLA Build Time
> SLA5000 36h (Actual)
> SLA7000F 9h 30m (Actual)
> SLA7000E 21h 40m Estimate
>
> Preparation time comparisons:
>
> Maestro
> Verify :8m 38s
> Create Support: 1m 9s
> Slice: 35m 15s
> Total Time: 44m 52s
> BFF File Size: 51.7MB
>
> 3D Lightyear
> Verify: 7s
> Create Supports: 32s
> Slice: 20m 30s
> Total Time: 21m 9s
> BFF File Size: 14.4MB
>
> *******************************************
> Intake Manifold 1/2 scale Data Size 10.2MB
>
> SLA Build Time
> SLA5000 13h 50m (Actual)
> SLA7000F 4h 37m (Actual)
> SLA7000E 10h 30m Estimate
>
> Maestro
> Verify : 3m14s
> Create Support: 2m6s
> Slice: 28m27s
> Total Time: 34m15s
> BFF File Size: 7.02MB
>
> 3D Lightyear
> Verify: 44s
> Create Supports: 17s
> Slice: 10m28s
> Total Time: 11m58s
> BFF File Size: 4.52MB
>
> *****************************
>
> Cylinder Block Data Size 31.5MB
>
> SLA Build Time
> SLA5000 55hr Estimate
> SLA7000F 9h 30m Estimate
> SLA7000E 28hr Estimate
>
> Maestro
> Verify : 7m 48s
> Create Support: 1m 53s
> Slice: 3h 36m 22s
> Total Time: 3h 46m 2s
> BFF File Size: 8.32MB
>
> 3D Lightyear
> Verify: 3m 5s
> Create Supports: 49s
> Slice: 2hr 17m 35s
> Total Time: 2h 20m 29s
> BFF File Size: 7.25MB
>
> Tetsuzo Igata
> Incs Inc.
> www.incs.co.jp
>
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