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Hello Hive Mind. I use Elegoo grey ABS for useable mini printing, decent detail and resilience for the table. Is there a better resin for figurine printing, high retail to sit on a shelf? I see a lot of you printing with Anycubic green and the detail looks really good.

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Mystery of the day. I have a file that I’ve successfully printed over 5 times back to back. The past two prints have been partial failures. You can see here part of it didn’t stick too well to the plate (one previous print of this file did this but I’ve also had prints since then that didn’t) and one guy failed to print from the knee up (never happened in any of the previous prints).

Nothing noticeable has changed. The ambient temperature has been plus minus two degrees between prints. Same type and bottle/batch of resin used between prints. Same slicing settings (0.04mm layers are 8 seconds exposure, eelegoo grey ABS like).

What could be going on? I’ve got less than 20 total prints on the Photon. The FEP has been cleaned with IPA and buffed with a microfiber cloth whenever I empty the vat or recover from a partial failure.

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I'm having a bit of a problem curing hollow prints. No matter how much I wash and cure them, I still get glossy, wet-looking spots that are sticky to the touch, and the prints still smell of uncured resin.

I've washed them repeatedly and thoroughly, left them under the UV for hours, re-washed them again, left them under the UV for hours again.

I'm guessing this is caused by the hollow inside of the print not getting hit by any appreciable amount of UV light and thus not curing.

My solid prints are absolutely fine and cure completely and as expected.

Has anyone ran into this problem and solved it?

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I don't know why I didn't notice till now but the Photon S has an absolutely massive and complete overkill z rail. It's like double the width of any other budget resin printer right now. Wow. Guess I know where the money saved from the plastic case went.

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Failed on this print
It seems that the layers just shifted for the specific part, any idea why this may have happened?

Anycubic photon
Elegoo ABS like grey resin

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iv noticed a lot of people here say they use Prusa slicer for supports. This is very shocking to me as I absolutely hated their supports when printing on my FDM. People who said they use Prusa for supports. You using supports like below? You dont find it hard to take them off? I would think it would be even bigger pain with resin

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Looked to me like people were having trouble calculating quote prices when providing 3d printing as a commercial service, so I decided to post this.

This is a worksheet with formulae I use to calculate a quote price for print jobs by taking all costs into account (resin costs, machine degradation, power) and multiplying it by a % profit value. It takes away the guilt and uncertainty so you're no longer thinking "Am I quoting way too much for this?", or "am I actually losing money on this, all things considered?"�

Just plug in your material costs, amount of profit you want, and the slicer estimates, to get an amount to quote. More info in the document.

There are separate tabs for FDM and Resin.

I'm not an accountant by any means, so there may be mistakes, but this is what I use when I sell 3D prints. My FDM paid for itself a good few months ago and the Photon is on its way.
Let me know if there're any glaring issues.

Also, the costs are in my local currency but it can be changed very easily.

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Fotis Mint put out a new model of # babyyoda and I'm all over it! Printed in Elegoo Resin on my Anycubic Photon, it's absolutely adorable! If you'd like to win a print of the Child for yourself, check out the video!

https://youtu.be/dAAj-8GT5uM

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Hi everyone, has anyone else had the issue that if using Chitubox to slice the Photon S will just not print anything and then the 2k screen exposure will stop working properly? It looks like this and the only thing that got the test back to normal was re-installing the latest firmware. However, the Photon does not even seem to heat up at all, no odor I expect from the resin in use, and I do not hear the bottom layers creating any suction. After a 40-50 layers I have stopped a few prints to find there is nothing on the build plate or the FEP. They just are not printing at all. I have mostly been using the Elgoo ABS-Like Grey and the settings are verbatim from the Google Doc. Since having to re-install the firmware nothing will print. The ribbon cable for the 2k is intact. Room temp is in the 20s C (68-70 F).

The Photon Workshop just crashes when I try to slice something. And sometimes when just dropping an STL in it. I did not have that problem before I started to use Chitubox, is there a driver conflict or something? Two weeks in and this purchase was pretty much instant regret. Any recommendations for firmware you all are using successfully? I've tried the default 2 dot something, 4.18 and 5.0.2. After about two dozen attempted prints there's only been three I would call acceptable and those were early and poorly supported as I have been learning. The FEPs have been tuned to ~350hz w/ Spectrum from the apple app store. I have to wait for more of those to come in now. Gone through six FEPs now I think between one that got melted in the corner, the one it came with was creased and then not finding a way to actually tune the things until a day or two ago. Interestingly, the only decent prints i got were before I had a way to measure the frequency. I don't like just returning things but I doubt there is problem forum I have not read on the Photon S at this point. I have had a few ok prints so I am not looking to blame this on any of the STLs themselves, this feels like an issue with the device. and yes, before it said the build plate is level and zero'd.

Any ideas? Please and thank you.

Example of what happens after I use Chitubox(not me in the vid):
https://youtu.be/KA75JRI3vDw

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Print of the day, 2 dwarf warriors, i used a HARZ labs resins, printed with my photon ?

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