Almost every maker gets stuck on this question: How much to charge? There are a lot of factors that need to be included in the price. Like the cost of the material used, the energy used, the time that the 3D Printer will take to printer the model.
That depends on several factors: 1,The size of your model; 2,The material you are using; 3,The layer height (smaller layers mean more layers to print); 4,The complexity of your model; 5,Whether the object needs supports.
SLA : Stereolithography SLA is a form of additive manufacturing technology used for creating models, prototypes and production parts in a layer by layer fashion using photopolymerization, a process by which light causes chains of molecules to link together forming polymers.
FDM : Fused Deposition Modelling This is the type of printer that is most common as it is cheap and can be readily made with a few simple parts. It works by heating up a piece of plastic and forcing it out of a small hole in the same manner as toothpaste. Imagine drawing a picture with just a tube of toothpaste by squeezing a line out and going forwards, backwards, left and right only. Let that first picture harden and then do the same again slightly higher with the next layer of the part you wish to build. The plastic mentioned above is referred to as filament and can come in a variety of materials, textures and colours. Different materials can be used for different applications. Wood, plastic, metal and rubber type materials are all used by 3D printers.
3Dprinting is a way to prototype parts rapidly in which a real object is created from a 3D design. The digital 3D model can be saved in a variety of standard formats including STL and OBJ and then uploaded to a 3D printer for processing. The 3D printer then prints the design layer by layer and forms a real object.
