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Off the printer today - 1/35 scale, 500 gal. collapsible fuel drums (aka "blivets").

Elegoo standard gray,.02 layers, 8 bottom layers at 40s, 9.5s normal exposure, 6.5s off time. Manual supports added with B9, hollowed (2mm thick walls) and vent holes (3 x 4mm dia)added with 3D Builder, sliced with CTB 1.3.

The faceted artifacts are because I used TinkerCad to design the object, but those will smooth out with just a couple swipes with some 400 grit wet-or-dry sand paper.

I'm really loving this thing!

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I thought I'd share a print failure that was caused by an issue that I haven't read or seen here before.

The object is a 1/72 scale fuel discharge nozzle (i.e. a "gas pump handle"). I added the supports manually using B9 Creator and then sliced it using ChTuBox.

However, it totally failed to print. I was baffled because all of the other objects included in the job were successful, but I could tell as soon as the print started that something was wrong with this specific object. The printer screen showed all of the other base layers printing, but not this one. This object only showed up once the Z-axis had reached about .5mm.

Anyways, the fault was a small artifact sticking out of the bottom of the raft. This was a cresent, about .3mm thick, that was part of one of the supports.

When I put the object in ChiTuBox, the slicer did actually put it on the work surface, but all that was touching was this microscopic artifact. This meant that the base layers were never actually printed on the bottom of the bed, and the rest of the object failed to print.

On the next print setup I added the nozzle again and almost didn't catch the problem until I checked the slices one last time and noticed that at zero on the Z-axis there was nothing. It was then that I checked the setup from the bottom and saw the little artifact holding the rest of the .stl off the work surface.

The solution was to simply lower the Z-axis by about .4 mm. A successful print this time.

Anyways, lesson learned is to always check that the objects really are sitting fully on the work surface.

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My latest print: a 1/72 scale, 10ft CONEX modified for emplacement as a bunker during the Vietnam war.

Did this in Elegoo Standard Gray, .02 layers, 10sec normal exposure time, 8 bottom layers with 40sec exposure time, and 6.5sec off time. About a 15 hour print.

I found the original design on Thingiverse, "A better 20ft shipping container" by 3Drails. The design was in HO (1/87) scale. I used TinkerCad to enlarge it, chop it up into a 10ft container, and add the wooded side door.

The original design was done in separate sides, ends, roof and floor, but I modified that into a single hollow part, open on the bottom with gussets added inside of each wall and end panel.

I got some very slight warping on the bottom edges of each end, but that will sand out when the supports are removed.

At .02 layers, this printed out very sharp and crisp.

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M23 Armament Subsystems (i.e. M60D MG mounts for UH-1 Huey's) in 1/72 scale. Four sets of lefts and rights.

These were designed using TinkerCad and sliced with ChiTuBox (medium supports added).

Printed with Elegoo Standard Gray, bottom layers at 40 sec and normal layers at 12 sec with 6.5 sec off time.

These will be added to several UH-1 helo models that are going on a large museum diorama of a Vietnam era fire support base.

I'm loving this Photon! In the past it would have taken my two or three days to master these, and another couple of days to cast them in urathane resin. I have to watch myself now because it's too easy to reduce the physical size of details down too small to be easily handled.

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So, a couple of questions about thumb drives and moving the factory files from the factory drive to a new thumb drive:

What are the best practices and procedures for transfereing the factory files to a new thumb drive? Simply copy and paste? Is there a recommended minimum size for the new, destination drive?

Can I take an .stl that's has supports added and been sliced in ChiTuBox (set up for AnyCubic Photon) and put it on a "blank" thumb drive and then print from that, or do I always have to put the file onto a drive with the factory files?

Maybe I'm over-thinking all of this. I thought I done this transfer successfully, but then, maybe not... I have zero prior experience with 3D modeling and printing, so I an pretty much a total novice here. (I am an experienced model maker and self-taught machinist with decades of work in both areas, but the 3D stuff is all new to me.)

I set my printer up (leveled it and checked the tension on the FEP). Based on the many comments I've read here, I also copied the two folders on the factory thumb drive to one that I thought was good.

The new thumb drive was 16GB and just had a couple of .jpgs in folders on it. I deleted the files and did a full FAT32 reformat. I then simply copied and pasted the two folders on the factory drive to the new one.

I wanted to do a test print using the AnyCubic lattice cube figuring that the factory has everything optimized. If the test print worked, I thought that would be a good indicator that the machine is functioning properly and that I correctly set it up.

So, these are my first two prints. About 40 minutes into the first one, the machine stopped with an error message that there was a problem with the thumb drive. This was the "new" drive.

I removed and cleaned up the partial print. It was clean with sharp details all the way to the point where the printer stopped.

I then changed thumb drives, and using the factory drive, produced the second, full print. It came out quite nice, and I now have confidence that the machine is working (leavng my own learning curve as the main variable going forward).

So, any advice here on what to do with the thumb drives? I'm already planning on just buying a new one today and attempting to move the factory files again, but am I actually doing this right?

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Hi all... My first post here, so to start, I'd like to say "thanks" to all of the folks here who are so generous with their time and experiences. I've been lurking for a while just soaking suff up like a dry sponge.

I've just got my Photon and and am looking forward to using it.

However, I've been trying without any luck for the last two days to download and install ChiTuBox on my computer.

I'm using an HP Specter Envy, Windows 64 bit, with Windows 7 upgraded to Windows 10. I have plenty of GB of available memory.

It looks like the software downloads and installs. However, each time I try to open it, I get the following two error messages:

ChiTuBox.exe - MSVCP140.dll cannot be found
ChiTuBox.exe - VCRUNTIME140.dll cannot be found

I've installed and uninstalled the software several times. I even tried to install the Windows 32 bit version. But I keep getting the same error messages.

Does anyone here have any suggestions? (I'm waiting on a response from ChiTuBox support.)

TIA!

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