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Working on Ultramarines as my next Truescale Horus Heresy squad. I enabled Anti-Aliasing on my Photon and I'm getting even smoother results than before! I'm printing these at 0.3 layer height.

Public release when they're all done, but if you'd like to get them as each model is finished and test-printed, you can support the cause over on Patreon.

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Re:Bases, I feel like I'm missing something obvious. If I print them flat on the base they turn out great but they are impossible to pry off without wrecking them. If I support them they often warp a bit. Is it likely I'm just an idiot and undersupporting them? I usually just use prusaslicer for supports. Or is there a trick I dont know about?

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So I just put together the Anycubic Photon and I cannot find where the initial test of Photon.photon is. I’m probably just an idiot but where do I get it, I simply cannot find the file. Does it matter if I use something else for my initial print?

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Dear Makers,

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"I don't read long posts-'TL;DR'-Edition":

I got myself Simon Jackson 's Dual Z Upgrade pack ( https://jacksonproducts.net/ ) and I am genuinly impressed with the improvement!

My first 2 Prints where badly sliced, I want to show them anyway to demonstrate the new Printing quality. So don't judge the DUal Z on the Screwed up Models, but on the layers they have.

Prints where Made with Monocure Grey on 0,05mm, which usually was my "Rough" resolution. When I wanted a nice even finish I printed on 0,2mm, where lines where still visible but neglegtible.
To demonstrate *That* I will post a comparison of a 0.05 mm print pre- and Post Upgrade later. Stay tuned.

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"Heck, NOW I wanna know the full story-Edition":
I don't wanna lie. The upgrade ain't cheap and put a little hole in my hobby pocket. Hence, I ordered it drunk, for then I have the lowest treshold for spending money on things I like or are interested in. My wife shall never discover that little trick of mine...

I recieved it fairly quick, *perfectly* packed! Not even the worst and/or most stupid mailman could have screwed that parcel up. Kudos, Simon.

I installed it last weekend, using Simon's provided video. I am by far not gifted when it comes to craftworks and the like. Hence I may have put a little nigget in my pants when I started disassembling my printer which I definitively could NOT afford to rebuf, would I mess it up somehow. Buuut: I made it. Hence, i am very confident to say, *Everybody* can! Just saying.

Back to topic:
Yesterday I found the time to slice a little Buddha and a Coin. I sliced the Buddha like an idiot, meaning: I hollowed it out in Meshmixer (which's Hollowing-function I prefer to ChiTu Box's) with 1-1.5 mm wall thickness only to find out later that the STL was bloody huge. I wanted a small, little, tiney Buddhy to life his peacefull live on me Computer's monitor. So I shrinked the buddha in ChiTu Slicer, which inevitable also shrinked my 1 mm Wall thickness to something around 0.1-0.2 mm. I don't know how I could not make that connection at the time. Spoiler Alert, the Budda didnt work too well.

However, on the pictures you maybe see that the Buddha literally is thinner than a sheet of paper. Yet (mostly) printed. My vanilla Photon wouldn't have been able to do that.

Furthermore, you will see on the pictures that there are NO visible Printing lines. Not to the human Eye, even very hard if magnified with the cell phone camera.

I also hat a slight error in the coin, I can not explain yet. I will print both again this weekend with a better prepared file...
I am very Impressen and I wholeheartedly recommend this Upgrade to every user of the Original Photon (V1).

Pics for comparing old 0.5 resolution to new 0.5 resolution will follow soon (aint got my old print with me right now).

Kind regards

Michael 翻譯年糕

can some one please help me understand wtf im looking for to down load photon FV? im not a computer science major... i have no fecking clue what im looking at on this github page... lol. make it, download pfv for idiots, please, when you explain

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Had my photon for a few months, but never actually done an exposure test :/
I know :(

So last night I ran the X3mSnake exposure test.

To be completely honest, I'm pretty lost with it.

I ran resin-test-50u.B100.2-20.photon and the result is the attached photo.
I followed the instructions, set my exposure, then printed the AmeraLabs Town test, but came out horrendously overexposed.
So despite following what I thought were idiotproof instructions, I still manage to mess up :(

I had 10 marked as the sweetspot.
So with that, I set the exposure to 20 for the AmeraLabs test, but as I say, horrendously overexposed.
When I set it to 20, I was thinking "Seems a bit high, but this bit of resin can't be wrong can it? I'll go along with that!"

After the first town test was over exposed I brought it down a bit. Reprinted. Oh. Nothing on the build plate at the end. Maybe I somehow had cured resin in the vat.
Cleaned the vat out, set it away again. Nope. Nothing on the build plate again.

Although, looking back at the X2MSnake test again, I definitely feel that I messed up.
Am I right in now thinking that 7 is the sweet spot on this test?

I'm lost :P

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Hey, i'm an idiot and I'm using this for reference. Can anyone tell me the units of measure for the Layer ht? My assumption is that 0,020 = .20mm. I just want to be sure before doing my first print.

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Need the experts to chime in! The Test Cube printed beautifully (except for the idiot who broke the base off while removing it from the build plate) so I decided to go all-in with the second print. I couldn’t be happier with the print quality, but as you can see, I have a droopy apron. I’ve done enough reading to have some likely suspects, but would love to have someone conform where I went wrong.

I didn’t print at an angle because the model is inherently angled in every direction, but is it possible that the warping happened while it was pulling from the FET?

Many of the supports separated from the base, which gives me a “chicken or the egg” situation, did the droop happen after it separated, or did it separate because of the droop? I used the auto support setting in ChiTu on the medium setting. I left everything else on the default setting. (I also hollowed the model out and added holes to the bottom)

My last concern is that I started the print in the early evening and let it run. It would have finished around 2am and sat until I woke up at 8. Did gravity just tug at the uncurled edges? That doesn’t seem likely, but what do I know?

Of course there may be more options out there...

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James Moon very gently pointed out that I'm an idiot (and I am genuinely thankful! LOL), and the support bases in PrusaSlicer are indeed able to be generated with an overhang for your scraper to slide under. I was absolutely doing something wrong. I deleted the message and associated thread I had posted about it, so sorry for cutting short the unrelated conversations we had going in the comments.

Thanks for setting me straight on that, James - if I don't learn at least one thing every day, then it's a wasted day. :)

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Which idiot in Chitubox design team thought it'd be good idea to put the remove all button next to the support controls... And not have a confirmation box!

# byebye90minsofwork

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