Quoted from John_I:The designer on thingiverse printed using a resin printer which is a lot different than a normal 3D printer. Resin printers print smoother much higher detail.
Yep. I have a resin printer I've used a few times for small little things. I hated the hell out of my PLA printer. It was a cheapo model, super finicky, no heated bed.... it sucked balls. The resin printer? It just worked for the most part. The build volume is small, but it was WAY easier to get results I was happy with.
I'm not sure what the temperature tolerance needs to be for one of these edge connectors....do they tend to get hot like molex? There's some high temperature resins out there, but they're not cheap. Like 80 bucks for 1kg of resin, some of that will likely end up as waste material.
The biggest problem I see is if I'm picturing the internal structure of these (without being able to load the model above and actually look at it in a modeler) is that while resin will print thin walls....it's not ideal, or very strong. I did a Mechagodzilla print that had some pretty thin little parts after I scaled it down to fit the build volume, and some of them ended up snapping off relatively easily. Definitely not strong enough to support the insertion of any kind of pin or pressure fitting. Depending on what these actually look like internally (and I could look at it with a slicer....er....maybe Wednesday. Monday and tuesday nights are busy for me..), I might be able to offer a more informed opinion of how I think it would do on a resin printer.
I'm a rank noob when it comes to 3d printing in general, but if I can help out.....it would give me an excuse to get the thing set back up and doing something.
I'm definitely willing to give it a shot. The Thingiverse link above was printed on a Photon....I have a Photon S, so should be pretty straightforward. Technically, it should be better, and faster, on the S. *shrug*
Nice front page they have there.