Anycubic Photon Printer Owners 造訪社團 » FDM

Follow the photos as you read. Got my Photon "S" a few weeks ago. Ho scale model building is my thing. Always wanted to do proper Victorian trim at a small scale. FDM printers were never capable of detail that small. Resin printers now affordable, time to give it a try. I never bothered with a test print. I just started with a few thingivewrse items. A coachman and a greek temple. Why not? When I saw his thumbs I knew great things were about to happen. I drew a plan in Sketchup for a full size Shaker Sewing desk I will be building so why not try to print it and see what happens. It sliced and printed just fine with stock settings and slicer that came with the Photon S. Rubbing my hands together I went back to Sketchup to draw up a Victorian house with the kind of window trim I have been dreaming about in HO scale. Hours spent learning Chitubox Slicer and just press print right? Not so fast! Weeks of failures spent learning about support placement, print angles, layer thickness vs exposure time and what the hell is voxilization or a Voxel anyway? My basement was too cold for the grey resin according to my cheap Horrible Fright laser thermometer. A strip heater powered through a Dremel speed controller now keeps the vat at 30c. See the photo of the strip heater wrapped around the vat. I was getting horrible lines on my prints until I learned about pixel aliasing. Did not matter what layer thickness I used. A 30 degree twist in the Z axis solved that problem and brought the voxilization to a maximum randomness to print smoother surfaces. Apparently prints with lots of right angles suffer from this. Who knew? A few more lessons learned with failures about needing support in just the right places and I am now cranking out windows and trim the likes of which I have never seen. I now use 0.02mm at 7 seconds 30c temp. Anycubic grey. 3 bottom layers 30 seconds. Models are 30 degrees on XY and Z. I use only light support with cone contact at .3mm for these small items. I am privileged to live in an age where I can now hold in my hands, within hours, anything I can draw. How was your first experience with 3D printing?

翻譯年糕

I have a photon that was given to me. I use my fdm printer to make functional things like machine parts, gears, couplers etc. Can I use the photon to make similar items. I am not really into figurines etc.

翻譯年糕

Need some help, have been around fdm for awhile but new to resin, I am having a "issue" where the bottom 2mm or so of my prints are larger then the rest and have like a foot effect. Normally this is not a problem since when printing on lifted models the supports are just enlarged, but when I need to print directly to the plate it is a issue. I was not sure how to search for a solution or maybe this is just over exposure? Resin is anycubic gray, 8 bottom layers at 70 seconds.

翻譯年糕

And so another successful attempt. So this is the final part layout of the 1/48th Atlas / Murcury capsual kit. The gray parts are resin and the yellow is PLA a type of filament used in an fdm printer. The material has a little more give to it and will make a much better Bass.

翻譯年糕

Hello all and wish you a happy new year. Using fdm printers I set a 50 to 60 degres of angle for my supports. Here it seems to be 30 that is really small. Did someone try to increase this angle valye and what the best for it according to you?

翻譯年糕

NEWS FLASH!!! The Skunkworx has received new technology to further space modeling research.
Dubuque Iowa January 1st 2020.
While 2020 crept over the horizon and billions around the world welcomed in the new year the ever-busy engineers at the Skunk works we're assembling the new fdm test facility.
Early in the morning on the 1st of January 2020 the first test run of the new printer began. This printer will take on the daunting task of test printing assets to be moved into resin printing. This printer will be responsible for proving the overall look and fit an alignment of critical parts.

翻譯年糕

What in the name of Zeus is happening here (settings posted) this is a mix of monocure rapid / monocure flex — very steep learning curve from FDM .. I just don’t get it ??‍♂️

翻譯年糕

Hi,
I am a longtime fdm printer, but new to resin printing. This my largest print so far.
Great detail but the towers on the right side have a twist/lean to them.
Printed on photon, sliced with photon slicer:
Anycubic grey resin
Layer=.05
Exp. Time=12
Off time=1
Bottom exp.=60
Bottom layers=8
Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.

翻譯年糕

Hi ladies and gentlemen,
"Little" Impression for not far of 30h in total! like what ,we can do a lot with the small surface of the photon ;) printed in 100micron 8s of expo and 35s bottom layer (x3) with anycubic gray resin, more expensive than FDM but render better and cleaner ;)

翻譯年糕

OK I know I'm new to resin printers but in all seriousness with fdm I can see a failure in 5 min. Reset and be good how do you the pros in here know it is working and can walk away and not wait for 1 hr or so to look at build plate while it lifts up and then see its failed. I don't wanna waste time if it's bad. Any pro tips. CN I. Somehow edit gcode or equivalent to in 5 min lift up to viable height then let me inspect and then continue? Or am I asking too much of such a low cost printer? I'm sure I can't be only one who has had this question.

翻譯年糕