Introducing AO Stack

Carbon is proud to introduce AO Stack, the newest addition to its Automatic Operation suite of solutions!
Designed specifically for the Carbon M2 and M3 printers, AO Stack is designed to enhance your unattended 3D printing capabilities.
With AO Stack, you can now print multiple builds worth of DPR10 models in one single print run!
That's right - up to 3x more models in a single print cycle, perfect for optimizing your overnight production without new hardware or the need for constant supervision.
This incredible innovation underscores Carbon's commitment to pushing the boundaries of dental lab technology.
Here are some key features of AO Stack:
🔹Increased Unattended Throughput: Print up to three times more models in a single run without supervision.
🔹 Ease of Integration: Seamlessly incorporate AO Stack into your daily operations with support from Carbon Academy.
🔹Availability and Integration: Starting today AO Stack will be accessible to Carbon M2 and M3 customers utilizing DPR10 as part of their subscription.
Simply reach out to [e-mail] to access this incredible feature! Make sure you're on software release version 1.41 or above to unlock this new capability.
For more information about AO Stack and the AO Suite from Carbon, visit www.carbon3d.com/products/ao-suite-software
Excited about this innovation? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below! 💬

[@justink6370]

Adding robotics to change out a platform might work well for large dental labs with the budget and space. The intent is to give smaller dental labs a way to automate with a “lights out” solution that they can implement on their existing equipment with just an increase in resin cost.

[@jcalderwood1]

Genius

[@FraMurgia]

Cool, now find a way to recycle all that resin

[@Mr_Joostik]

on the one hand, it looks convenient, but in practice there is more transfer of expensive resin and time for extra layers. There is NO sense in this construction

[@elongated_muskrat_is_my_name]

resin and machine time might not be that expensive compared to operator time. still there must be a better way of doing this. transferable bases or something. or some kind of clever tree supports

[@Mr_Joostik]

@@elongated_muskrat_is_my_name use magnetic tables, remove one, install the second and immediately print. 1 was cleaned and replaced again. And excess resins are consumed faster and less. The resin that was spent on extra supports would have been enough for 1 or 2 such parts.

[@drumperson10]

I would think this is more for "lights out" printing. Yeah its wasteful from the resin point of view but maybe not from a down time point of view. CNC machining cannels talk about this, yeah its not very optimized but its reliable and im in the bed getting a good nights sleep while its running.

[@justink6370]

The stack is actually designed so that it drains resin overnight. There is a complex geometry that funnels the resin through the pillars and back into the cassette where it can be reused. Also, the whole stack adds a minimal amount of volume while keeping the parts meeting the strict specs.

[@pawetrznadel7770]

Seems like a huge waste of material

[@tuqe]

Vs operator cost? Probably still makes sense. Shame that it’s so wasteful

[@AlcorSalvador]

This is extremely wasteful. Why not build something that removes the plate and replaces it with another plate instead.

[@AlcorSalvador]

@@user-it7kg3pm4q Neat, so there isn't a need to do this weird stacking nonsense

[@Shikaradin66]

So wasteful