Just unpacked Photon, I used newest software and Chitubox but it won't recognize the pws files, do I need to update the firmware?
Just unpacked Photon, I used newest software and Chitubox but it won't recognize the pws files, do I need to update the firmware?
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Jeremy Swigart
2020-03-29 00:35:39
Jairo Ledesma
2020-03-29 00:35:40
Yes, you probably have a fauxton,
Jim Goulbourne
2020-03-29 00:42:19
You need to make sure chitubox is outputing the file to a .photon files. It isn the settings somewhere
Michael Rolston
2020-03-29 00:44:18
Michael Rolston
2020-03-29 00:45:42
Jim Goulbourne
, did that they are discovered but says that they can't be opened, that's why I thought firmware
Reid Ball
2020-03-29 00:51:31
New photon firmware no longer recognizes .photon only .PWS save your STL with supports or whatever from chitubox then open it and slice it in photon workshop
Reid Ball
2020-03-29 00:54:06
At least that's what I learned about my photon s. I also just got it like 2 days ago
Brian Keith Saunders
2020-03-29 00:55:59
Reid Ball
yeah thats what im doing with my zeros. I use chituboz to do the supports then photon slicer for the final output.
Jeff Greenfield
2020-03-29 00:57:25
Reid Ball
incorrect. Update firmware to 5.0X and it will read .photon, .photons, and .pws.
Jeremy Swigart
2020-03-29 01:08:58
The directions are with the files. It's super trivial
Sander van Deijl
2020-03-29 01:12:02
Reid Ball
2020-03-29 01:12:54
Jeff Greenfield
thanks for that, I definitely assumed it would have came with the most recent firmware
Scott Pavlich
2020-03-29 01:28:01
John Bkly
2020-03-29 01:43:42
Yeah, had the same issue and did the firmware 5.1 I think from their website and it recognizes .photon files now. I use the Prusa slicer for generating the supports, save as stl with supports included and bring it into Chitubox to generate the slicer file.
Panagiotis Kountouriotis
2020-03-29 01:55:36
John Bkly
you use normal supports in prusa slicer?
John Bkly
2020-03-29 01:56:40
Auto generate then add a few that I think it missed. It has worked pretty well so far, just a couple extra steps and a bit of extra time.
Nicholas Norton
2020-03-29 02:41:29
Jairo Ledesma
careful I got flamed for saying something similar. Apparently the community flips their collective shit over the word “fauxton” even tho that’s literally what you have to google to find the answer to this question.
Nicholas Norton
2020-03-29 02:42:46
Michael Pippin
2020-03-29 02:47:38
Check the file names before you start upgrading software.
Richard Webb
2020-03-29 02:49:13
100% do the firmware update - then you can use all photon related filetypes
Steve Fisher
2020-03-29 03:10:38
I have just got the photon s and will not read the files from chitubox either. Is there a specific version number for the firmware that is know to work, or is it just a case the latest version will do?
I only ask as I have seen conflicting advice saying "no longer working on the latest firmware"
Richard Webb
2020-03-29 05:20:50
just update to v5.x and all will be good
Philip J Newman
2020-03-29 13:18:28
Nicholas Norton
wouldn’t flame him, just assume he’s the kinda guy who waits in line for the newest iPhone then jerks off about it for a month every time he tells someone about it
David Anthony Vivas
2020-03-29 17:17:29
This is not true. Just update firmware
David Anthony Vivas
2020-03-29 17:18:54
Yea, not sure why.people.keep.saying that, and we are in almost april. About a week or so after release there was a software update. Does .photon and .photons
David Anthony Vivas
2020-03-29 17:19:25
Marcel Hansen
2020-03-29 20:23:17
Afaik The new photons only use the pws file type which you can't export with chitubox you have to open it again in photon workshop and save as pws
