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So, getting ready to change and try AC Black for the first time. I cleaned out the vat days ago (lens wipes and Sprayaway) and let everything air dry. Opened my machine, and noticed the FEP seems to like to stick to the LCD screen. I'm guessing this is normal? My vat does seem to be a bit hard to slide out and I do hear a slight "stick" sound when I pull it out.

I've quadruple checked and everything is dry and there's no resin residue on the bottom of the vat or LCD.

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Hey guys, new to the game and new to the group. I've been trying to learn as much as I can on my own by subscribing to groups and just reading and watching. I passed the first test with the Anycubic Cube - flawless first print. I'm anxious to start more prints now. However, I'm having trouble with Chitubox on my Mac.

There are certain files which load but won't show up. The transform tool will (the green, blue, red circles) but I can't see the object. I went ahead and ran the slicer just to see if recognized the object. As you can see in the screenshot, it thinks something is there. Has anyone had this happen before?

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Hey guys. An idea popped into my head yesterday for an update/new feature for the file validator software. No idea how to code for programs so thought I’d throw it up here for discussion. Also, only been 3D printing for a month so it might have already been brought up:

The other day I was looking at alternative slicing programs and came across z-suite. While looking at the features I started reading about how with the Zortrax printers they can give the supports different exposure time then the rest of the model, making them potentially more brittle and easier to remove. I thought that was a cool feature and just accepted that these things are the sort of things you pay the extra for for the higher end machines.

But then last night it popped back into my head. All that would need to be done is to do a similar process to how the exposure test works: print the slice like normal, don’t raise z axis, then immediately follow with a slice that only has the image of the supports and expose that for the extra time. Then raise up to next layer and then rinse+repeat.

To begin with I thought this could only be accomplished with the slicer+printer having the ability built in to differentiate between supports and model. But then it dawned on me that all it would need is two files to import: the first being the supported model sliced like normal, and then the second would be the same model in the same position/orientation but this time sliced WITHOUT supports. The program could then take the normal slice, compare it to the slice without supports and then generate a slice which is just the second one overlayed on top of the first, blanking out the model, leaving only the support info. These slices could then be added in between the normal slices

Thoughts?

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Ok i have 5 photons and right now 4 of them work great. But the 5th one seems to have an issue and i dont know what it is. It does not matter what i print but when it gets to the second layer the machine will reboot. I have flashed the firmware leveled it multiple times and still does the same thing of any file. What could be the issue?

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Found more bugs in CBD firmware. This one could damage your machine (or worse?), so watch out.

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I have been trying to get good results with primacreater value ressin light grey, but while it gets okish in the photon slicer I just cant get a descent result with ChiTuBox, does anyone have a settings file for this that I get a copy of?

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So I downloaded Prusa Slicer on Mac and I can’t even load a file with out it locking up and crashing. Is this a common issue?

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My anycubic photon just arrived. It's original photon not photon-s.

But it only accept .pws file.

.photon file is not detected.

The Slicer software that came in the USB already support AA.

It was 2019 production. Does Anycubic change the firmware of photon original to match photon-s?

Or they install the firmware to a wrong machine?

Edit: I'm not going to updated the firmware (Yet). I think i got the newest motherboard with few capabilities not available in older motherboard. ?

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Totally at wits end with my Photon S tonight having wasted at least 30 hours trying to sort it out now, and no further forward.

Tech support in China sent me a new mainboard and I installed that this afternoon. STILL can't print anything (except the unaltered sample 'PHOTONS' lattice box shape). Had a handful of encouraging successful prints in the first few days using Anycubic green and then Elegoo grey but now the best I can get is a sort of very thin ghost shape of the print, stuck to the FEP, not the build plate!

Not been able to print anything for a couple of weeks while waiting for the repl mainboard and that seems to have been a total waste of time. What's really puzzling me is the machine fails to read sliced files, (even most of the ones I printed successfully in the first few days I had it) it just freezes when I press print ('>') and I have to switch off and on again. When files are reopened in Photon-Workshop there is no main image there except the settings and slice images.

AND secondly the few files it will print won't build properly in the vat Have I actually got two problems here, something wrong with the slicing software AND something wrong with the printer screen? Is there a series of tests I can go through logically to pin down what's wrong? Or is the whole thing a dud that needs sending back to Amazon? It's a bit expensive to just chuck it in a skip but that's about where I am with it (and've been 3D FDM printing for nearly 10 years so clearly a total failure with this technology)...

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Today's tip: When taking a screen shot of one of your resin profiles in Chitu, make sure to change it *back* to the profile for the material that's *actually* in your vat before slicing and starting a new print job. ? ? ?

Absent-minded me has done it with my filament machines too, like trying to extrude PETG at PLA temps. That's also somewhat... prone to failure. :)

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