Plug-And-Play 3D Printing: Hands-On With The Form 3+ 3D Printer

Spun out of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Formlabs immediately set itself apart from both the world of desktop printers and industrial equipment by offering the best of both worlds: an industrial quality machine that could fit on your desktop for a price of about $5,000. Since it blew away Kickstarter some ten years ago, the company has grown into one of the additive manufacturing sector’s few unicorns. Having never used a Formlabs 3D printer before, I always wondered if these machines lived up to the hype.