HeyGears UltraCraft Reflex RS Review: Is This the Best Resin 3D Printer For You?

[@swells1]

Great review. $750 is still pretty steep. Maybe when I win the lottery lol. Even then the toxicity of resin scares me off. For now I’ll stick with my Bambu A1 FDM.

[@tatsfresh]

Do you have a link to the STL of the draining bracket that HeyGears provides? I PO'ed this printer and wanted to prep things beforehand.

[@FigureFeedback]

I do. I've uploaded it to WeTransfer here: we.tl/t-SsqY6sceV1

[@thrrax]

A bit of bend there in Wolverine's right hand claws though.

[@FigureFeedback]

Yeah I haven't tried to heat it up and bend it back in place.

[@badboibubby1878]

Have a strong feeling the “blemishless supports” other KZbinrs are touting are specifically w that $600 air compressor they’re selling that aids peel force. They’re not really telling the public that it’s being used in those videos, which makes this printer $1500 to get why they’re showing off.

[@FigureFeedback]

I was thinking the air compressor may have something to do with it. I don't have one of those. I was also using the official release version of the slicer instead of the beta version. I'm running a print on the beta version now to see if the support experience is different.

[@todd636]

Great overview. At the 12:50 point in the video, some of the support points looked pretty substantial. In your opinion, do you think first model does a better job with the use of smaller connection points? Perhaps because of the heated resin? It's more than I would want to spend, but I now struggle with all the settings, figuring out where supports go, repairing models, etc. I just want to print a model. 99% of my printing will be 28mm and smaller miniatures. Hoping for a Black Friday sale on original.

[@FigureFeedback]

I haven't tried the original, but it does have slicer settings for specific uses such as miniatures. I saw another review and they said HeyGears is working on a miniature setting for the RS that will make the supports less aggressive. The Piccolo figure was one of the first I printed, and I didn't use heat to loosen the supports. The support marks did decrease once I started using heat. If you want, I can upload some pictures of the minis I printed so you can judge their quality for yourself.

[@todd636]

@@FigureFeedbackpictures would be great. The RS is larger, right now, much cheaper. The original has some features I like but struggling with the price

[@FigureFeedback]

Here's a link to some photos I took of minis. drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Jbwi-YMSxOSF6og1UDCOqKTIjoGwXf6p?usp=sharing

[@BryanGustin]

@@FigureFeedback I've also read that the print release module makes the supports much easier to remove, but that is a big bump in price for supports.

[@FigureFeedback]

Yeah that module is really pricey. I think HeyGears can also fix the support issue by tweaking the slicer. I printed some presupported models recently and those supports were easier to remove and left very few marks.

[@BryanGustin]

Very nice review. Does it auto hollow prints? No one has talked about this.

[@jamescollins3893]

It doesn't auto-hollow; that's still the standard process of setting wall thickness and placing drain holes in the slicer.

[@FigureFeedback]

Bingo.

[@todd636]

Do you think you could hollow out the model in another slicer and bring it back into HeyGear?

[@FigureFeedback]

​@todd636Yes, you can do that. I tried it with the free version of Chitubox.

[@BryanGustin]

@@todd636 You could, I am only familiar with Lychee but in order to do it there you need the professional version to do a 3d hollow that will save to an STL. The free version will only hollow for the printer export.