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Recently finished up a print of my Ripster sculpt. The two main issues I’ve run into are:

Crazy warping, as if the printer was shaken during printing.

Really bad artifacts left after supports are removed.

I’ve managed to find tips on when is best to remove supports, but the weird warping I have no idea.

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Anyone else experience the LCD printing half or full screen snow/static? It randomly happens, I've printed the same stl multiple times and it starts randomly, even if part of the print is successful it leaves a sheet of cured resin on the fep film the exact size of the LCD screen. I've changed my USB and resliced this particular stl I'm experiencing this with but it continues to happen. I'll try to take a picture when I see it again, but I'll include one of the sheeting I'm seeing.

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I have had this print fail multiple times. I just changed the orientation. Any advice would be most appreciated.

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Got a "simple" question. Coming from an FDM printing background (still have my trusty old prusa, it's not going anywhere), I'm curious about some supports tips and tricks.

I will use my photon mainly to print mini's for my d&d campaign, but the question/bane of my existence on the FDM side has been placement and number of supports.

I know with SLA printing the use of supports is a different animal due to the way that SLA printing works. I downloaded chitubox, and imported a model and added supports, with the base up off the build plate by a bit. Where I need help is what, in general to watch for on the support front. (i.e. this kind of geometry needs support, this doesn't)

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How have you solved the fume extraction / ventilation? Only active carbon filters or ventilation pipes? Any ideas, tips and tricks? :)

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For those who have issues with the Photon and the machine randomly resetting a few layers in - What firmware are you running?

I'm most curious if anyone on the Epax firmware are having the same issue or if there's a firmware on the Photon that doesn't have this issue. Seems that it's across multiple versions of the firmware, including the latest.

I recently had 3 failures in a row where the printer stopped printing after the bottom layers on different files (including ones that printed correctly previously). This seems to be a software glitch where the machine hangs after the first few layers, then restarts. Tried 4 different jump drives, including ones that worked previously. Tried turning off/ leaving it unplugged for a while, etc. Then randomly using one of the files that failed previously - it printed correctly.

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Chitibox Question...

Can you select multiple objects in Chitubox or is it just one or all?

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When printing rings with lettering that has straight sides, I keep getting a small miniscus of resin cured left inside the cavity. So rather than having the straight sides and flat bottom, I have a sloped sided and round bottom cavity. Any body have any tips on how to reduce this? It is like the resin just won't drain during printing. Ring is printed straight up in this case, but the same happens in other orientations as well.

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Anyone having issues with print shrinkage on Z? Working on multiple different files on two separate machines, everything is good and even on supported areas but once the print hits about 50% it’s getting compressed (?). Max of a 1mm difference between top and supported bottom on a piece a total of 30mm high.

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Hi to all and thanks for interesting group!

I've read already quite a lot of posts here, but I would love to gather some sum up for beginners and made a few questions:

1. Any tricks and tips for beginners - what should I do / know and how to prevent and avoid beginner fails.

2. Maintenance tips and (precautionary also)

3. Useful softwares / tutorials? File format converting?

4. Cheap and good quality resins, also castable ones (or does the non-castable work for jewellery casting too / invest casting)? How about the shrinkage?

5. Settings / tables etc for different resins?

6. Afterwork tips for models (polishing, chemical dips etc).

7. Safety

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