Anycubic Photon Printer Owners 造訪社團 » FDM

Thanks for the join, I ordered my photon this morning, my first resin printer, I used from but trying to get the print quality I wanted was a no go, so after reading through comments on here I hope I don't get as many problems with print adhesion as the FDM, my main hobby is designing dioramas, and building and painting figures

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What do you guys use for slicing? I am used to simplify3D for my FDM printers and working with the anycubic photon slicer is pain in the ass. Especially when I try to place and move multiple objects

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Hi! Are you guys all using this printer for figures? Anybody using it for engineering parts? Thats what I bought the printer for. Watertight, highly dimensionally accurate, and sometimes optically clear parts with high quality surface is what I am looking for. In addition to my FDM machines off course..., as an synergistic addon so to speak. Let´s see what it can do. Anybody else?

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Every now and then I still cheat on my Photon with the FDM machines. Halloween was awesome this year!

https://youtu.be/KxFiNHOiYm8

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I keep reading issues on settings and failed prints etc. I have now had this printer for a couple of Months and apart from redoing the levelling after a solution from this group every print just works.

Rarely do I change anything, when I do I guess basing my changes on the colour density of the resin. I am currently building a large FDM printer and the vast majority of the parts have been made on the Photon and the tolerances etc are perfect. Sometimes I think we can overcomplicate things which in turn results in a downward spiral of errors. The photo is of a part for the ptfe tube, 20 mins design 1hr 26m print time and 2m to fit. Its a reliable machine in my production line... oh and I haven't sanded the build plate

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Can someone explain to me about supports,
Is the auto support in the program adequate?
Or do you need to add additional supports.
If so how do you know where to place them?
I have an FDM printer and I understand the support system on that and where to place them but I am having trouble getting my head around resin printing.

Thanks in advance.
Paul.

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Thanks for the add. I'm a 3D designer and have been selling on Shapeways for the past 3, 3 1/2, years. I'm sure a lot of you know about the mess that's been going on there for a while now. So now I'm looking into purchasing a printer to make and sell some of my more popular models myself to avoid SWs' hassles. I'm looking at either the Photon, the upcoming Prusa SL1 (the Prusa kit is basically the most I can spend on a printer and I'd get the cleaning station no matter which way I go), or maybe the "Bean" printer. I'm not sure which, though, or if I should even get into it in the first place.

I'm a college student and don't have too too much time except on the weekends. From my understanding, a DLP/SLA printer would require quite a bit more time and work than just a regular FDM printer would. I'm also unsure about how well a desktop DLP printer would lend itself to small scale, but relatively frequent, production of multiple models at once. I know that no matter what, these printers wouldn't be able to really match the quality of Shapeways' MJM printers but if Shapeways goes any further downhill after Jan 1, this might be my best option.

Also, a question about the Photon and resins. What is the highest resolution layer height that the Photon can reasonably print at? Shapeways offers detail plastics with a layer height of 16 and 25 microns. Can the Photon match the smaller height with reasonable accuracy? Also, I know that the resins tend to be somewhat toxic with a strong odor. Are there any high detail resins out there that are either non-toxic or won't emit such strong odors and vapors such that I wouldn't need a ventilation system? Space is somewhat tight for me so the less room and peripherals needed, the better.

Thanks.

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Print #833: My first print with Wanhao's orange, 100/8/16/2. This is definitely the most plasticky/polycarbonate-ish material that I've come across yet (sorry for that unscientific description). Spray painted metallic gold to give a cast bronze effect. A small part of the cherub's upper wing was unsupported so didn't print well, otherwise no complaints.

This little machine has been delivering non stop without fail. It beats most FDM printers at this price on reliability for me. If only the choice of materials was as wide as FDM, this would be my only small machine.

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Hey guys - still trying to figure out the supports. Coming from FDM, just having a little bit of a hard time getting it. Here are some pics of a file with auto support on. I ran it through Validator and it shows several "islands". Thoughts on this orientation and do I need to go back in and manually edit the supports? Just having a hard time figuring out where they go and how many is enough. I am sure that will come with time - as it did with FDM. But there is a learning curve. Thanks for the help.

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Fdm vs my photon

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