I have some demo units sitting on my desk; one 'brake caliper' type bracket we received can be tossed 15ft. in the air without structural damage, and hardly a dent.
to answer your questions:
1)The parts feel equally dense to an Objet polyjet print, more dense and rigid then most SLA process parts I've seen. On par w/ ABS from a FDM, but definitely less brittle. One thing worth mentioning is the part does have "twist" as in, the layers will move the slightest bit allowing you to effectively twist a part. Think phonebook.
2)I've broken one part (a chainlink) now, from two layers spreading apart. This was after me and several people I know had loaded it up w/ 20-30lbs force, twisting and pulling on the chainlink.
3)If I put the same load on a VeroWhitePlus Objet chainlink, I would have broken it quicker. I cannot speak to many other technologies, but I know that much is true.
Awesome, so it sounds reasonably credible for a number of tasks. The twist is an interesting 'feature' in terms of using it structurally. Depending on feature size a killer app with 'true color' is to create a prototype consumer device at scale with the appearance of the actual device. That can certainly inform things like pocket usability, grip flexibility, finger kinematics, etc.
The demo video made it also look like it would be awesome for architectural visualization (buildings) and city planning.
to answer your questions: 1)The parts feel equally dense to an Objet polyjet print, more dense and rigid then most SLA process parts I've seen. On par w/ ABS from a FDM, but definitely less brittle. One thing worth mentioning is the part does have "twist" as in, the layers will move the slightest bit allowing you to effectively twist a part. Think phonebook.
2)I've broken one part (a chainlink) now, from two layers spreading apart. This was after me and several people I know had loaded it up w/ 20-30lbs force, twisting and pulling on the chainlink.
3)If I put the same load on a VeroWhitePlus Objet chainlink, I would have broken it quicker. I cannot speak to many other technologies, but I know that much is true.