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12 Sept 2026 · 2 min readmembers

Our actual tolerances, measured

What we hold on FDM and SLA, taken off real parts with calipers — not off a spec sheet.

By Akara Labs

Everyone quotes ±0.2 mm. Almost nobody publishes the measurements behind it. Here is ours, taken across a batch of test parts on each machine, measured with a calibrated caliper at 22°C.

FDM, 0.2 mm layers, PLA

Across three machines and thirty parts:

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