Anycubic Photon Printer Owners 造訪社團 » FDM

Hi Guys,
First time posing here. Got my printer last week and this is my first resin printer. I have been printing with FDM for over 3 years now and i am well versed there.
I have read through a ton of info and watched a lot of youtube guides and videos to prepare as best as i can for the different experience that is resin printing. Nonetheless i still have some practical questions to which i have not seen answers for.
Currently in the middle of printing the Anycubic testcube that came with the printer and so far it seems to go fine. In my head i am already thinking what model i would want to try next to have an actual interesting print and following questions popped into my mind:
Do i have to clean out / drain and filter the reamining resin after a print from the vat before starting a new one? I understand that the slightest particle that may not have adhered to the model may ruin my next prints so based on that i thought i probably need to drain the vat and clean it out between each print? Or is that only something you need to do if you have failed prints? A lot of guides advise you to hollow out your models for various reasons. Reducing resin used, reducing suction forces on the fep with not having a big massive model (together with air vents) etc. But my question is: Is it really always advisable to hollow out every print? I.e.: If i would print a miniature figure which barely has any place to hollow out anything does it still make sense? I get it that for large prints with big surface areas and such it really makes sense to hollow out the print but i am not sure if there is really a necessity or benefit for smaller items. so i am looking for some guidelines here. In combination with point 2 i also saw that hollowing out models gives you basically another problem because you now also have to account for the empty space inside the model where you can now also have islands that you need to support. What is the best way forward here? Do you then really go into the model and also manually start to patch up each potential island inside the model with supports or do you set a good infill rate with chitubox and that solves the problem or what is the general recomendation here?
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Sorry everyone one more question... on my FDM printers i usually print a temp tower with a new roll of filament. do we have a test we print each time? or just giv'er

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Hey everyone!

Does any of you know a matte resin that blocks infrared light, even through a thin (<1 mm) wall? I have tried anycubic black, but it is too translucent. I was looking at resins like Elegoo gray, or HERO gray or black, but I'm not sure, is there someone who has experience with this? After all, with FDM, black PLA blocks it just fine, but white completely lets it through, so I have a hard time guessing.

Thanks for the help! :)

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Hi guys, got my printer today, I have been working with FDMs for a long time and I'm a bit apprehensive that we cannot view the build plate and it takes time to check if we got any adherence. Any tricks for that?

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After reaching out here for some help I finally got my first successful print! Thank you all for the help! Sude by side comparison to my FDM pront of the same model ?

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Looking for advice..

Im looking to get a FDM Printer for those larger prints that the Photon just cant manage - which is the better one to get - the CR-10, Ender 3 or the Mega i3?

Ready to buy one now, but would like to get some feedback on which people prefer in terms of print quality, level of difficulty to use and maintain etc.

Thanks in advance ??

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Hello
I am FDM printer user and want to buy SLA printer too.

What to buy - Photon or Photon S?

Also I am interesting, what is Anycubic Photon starter pack :) . what I should buy with Anycubic Printer.

thanks

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Couple weeks ago I asked if anybody knew how resilient resin was to acetone. I intended to use a resin print as a stand in an acetone vapor bath to vapor smooth ABS fdm prints. No one seemed to know but everyone seemed positive on this use case. I'm here to report back. It worked very well for 30 minute exposures. I used it to vapor smooth approximately 10 items so it was exposed to acetone vapor for approximately five hours with no signs of deterioration.

The last time I used it I put the airtight container away with the stand in it and it still had a little bit of acetone in the bottom. After a week of constant exposure (unintentional exposure) the print seems to have fallen apart. I can conclude short exposures to acetone shouldn't have too many negative effects but a prolonged exposure to acetone will cause the resin to deteriorate over time.

Elegoo grey printed on anycubic photon.

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After a lot of research, I noticed the EPAX X1, was down to $380. (with use of a $20 coupon on Amazon prime, free shipping). Compared to $280 for the photon, it seemed like a no-brainier. The thing I couldn't get over on the Photon, was the grub screw. As time goes by, they dig into the mating surface, and it's really hard to get them to do anything but follow the same position that they were in due to that indent.

I build my own FDM machines for production work becuase I can make them cheaper and better then a Prusa, but at this price point, you can't make a LCD machine. Same is true with a basic laser cutter. There a few open source laser engravers out there, but you can't build them better then a k40 for the price. Anyways, I'll stay subscribed to this page, but I just wanted to in a non "PC-vs-MAC" war sort of way give new buyers something to think about.

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Hello. I have two problems and hope you can help me. My prints are not coming out so perfect, they get some line marks as if they were printed on an FDM printer, I'm having a hard time removing the rods from the holder, they are damaging my printed models, it is full of holes everywhere I remove it. the brackets. I would like to know if there are any settings that I can use to improve these problems and if there is a video showing how to remove the brackets and finish the piece.

The other problem is that until today I could not print using Chitubox, no print comes out of the machine by this slicer. If someone can share a profile with me for me to do new tests I thank you very much.

Thank you in advance.

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