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With my Ultimaker, i use Octoprint to controll the printer (with webcam, upload files and also abort when a mistake) is this also possible with ChituBox? or a other Addon, to upload and controll the Photon?

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Makers, I need help.
For ages I couldn't get a working print out of my machine anymore.
I use Monocure Rapid Clear, a new Fep and the bed has been perfectly leveld a minute before starting the print. The Screen works flawless also, at least the test triangle I was checking jesterday, prior to the print.

I was Slicing with ChiTu Box for the first time here, but my attemts with the original slicer didn't work any better lately. I was orienting my settings on this Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H3unWZZKjM&t=170s

Layer Hight: 0,05
Bottom Layer: 10
Exposure Zime 14
Bottom Exp. 90

Before that I tried different values on the Excel ( https://docs.google.com/…/1crvzMnt_8NJXAsABinoIhcOjE8…/edit… ).

Non really worked. Sometimes it was just a flat mass on the fep, sometimes the print looked good to a certain point but then looked like an deflated baloon. Simmilar to the Pillar mini below.
This time I had one good model (which showed some wired kind of flash thoug, I never experienced that before) and one messed up (The pillar Model).

Please can somebody tell me what I am doing wrong???

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Though to share this, see if anyone has opinions on it.

https://makersplace.com/

This website contacted me claiming to use a blockchain like system to secure your digital content as it's sold.

As a 3D Asset creator the idea of the security appeals to me but do others out there have an opinion?

I only sell on a few sites but it looks like CGtrader is the best around.

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Just ordered a Photon... any immediate mods I should consider? This is my first resin printer, have two FDM currently (TronXY X5SA & Tevo Tornado), and two in the past (Monoprice Maker Select & Mini Fabrikator)

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Cleaned the threaded rod and will reapply lubrication. Will this work or the Magnalube (recommended and what I use for Ultimakers). Which one is better?

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I was using a Sparkmaker.

Now I have a Photon.

Night and day.

Omg.

First noticed... the photon has amazing construction. Its heavy. The Spark feels like a toy compared.

Both the slicers are the same, so I dont care for the manipulation in the slicers.

Photon has a larger build plate which allows more... stuff... but it is significantly faster in building.

The same slice (as close as I could get) on the spark was 8 hours. The Photon was 4 hours. It's about 125% faster to print.

Quality.... I would say the Photon is not failing on a print and generally has more perfect prints than the Spark. Spark had a tendency to drop supports even lower to the point they didnt appear to be seperate from the base.

With the spark I was lucky to print 6 minis and have them all perfect. With the Photon I can print 8 (I'm sure I could squeeze 9) at a time at twice the speed, and as long as I didnt screw up supports, they will be perfect.

Mini display on the photon is great. Also the spark only allowed one slice file per SD card. The photon has a thumbnail of all the slices on the card.

In short .. the Photon is worth twice the cost (approx) of the spark!!

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I have a shop on my property and recently walled half of it off into a makerspace of sorts. I moved my photon out there, releveled the bed, and the first print came off great. What happened to this one? All of these angles are not supposed to the there. It's just a regular desk. Any help is appreciated.

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Hello guys!
Anybody has experience printing on the Photon with the Sparkmaker SLA resins? Specifically LCD-T, or LCD-N? Does it work? Is it adequate for mechanical parts?

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The Photon is going on sale in the US again, today: https://makerfun3d.com/amazon-lightning-sales

Last time it was down to $373.00.

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So, a couple of questions about thumb drives and moving the factory files from the factory drive to a new thumb drive:

What are the best practices and procedures for transfereing the factory files to a new thumb drive? Simply copy and paste? Is there a recommended minimum size for the new, destination drive?

Can I take an .stl that's has supports added and been sliced in ChiTuBox (set up for AnyCubic Photon) and put it on a "blank" thumb drive and then print from that, or do I always have to put the file onto a drive with the factory files?

Maybe I'm over-thinking all of this. I thought I done this transfer successfully, but then, maybe not... I have zero prior experience with 3D modeling and printing, so I an pretty much a total novice here. (I am an experienced model maker and self-taught machinist with decades of work in both areas, but the 3D stuff is all new to me.)

I set my printer up (leveled it and checked the tension on the FEP). Based on the many comments I've read here, I also copied the two folders on the factory thumb drive to one that I thought was good.

The new thumb drive was 16GB and just had a couple of .jpgs in folders on it. I deleted the files and did a full FAT32 reformat. I then simply copied and pasted the two folders on the factory drive to the new one.

I wanted to do a test print using the AnyCubic lattice cube figuring that the factory has everything optimized. If the test print worked, I thought that would be a good indicator that the machine is functioning properly and that I correctly set it up.

So, these are my first two prints. About 40 minutes into the first one, the machine stopped with an error message that there was a problem with the thumb drive. This was the "new" drive.

I removed and cleaned up the partial print. It was clean with sharp details all the way to the point where the printer stopped.

I then changed thumb drives, and using the factory drive, produced the second, full print. It came out quite nice, and I now have confidence that the machine is working (leavng my own learning curve as the main variable going forward).

So, any advice here on what to do with the thumb drives? I'm already planning on just buying a new one today and attempting to move the factory files again, but am I actually doing this right?

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