Anycubic Photon Printer Owners 造訪社團

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We all miss cayde 6. He was the best

Huh?

My kids just got this 1:1 foam replica for me for my birthday. I think i need to print that model to go with it!

Is he holding a hawkmoon?

Caitlyn Clark ace of spades

Destiny ☺️

Bert Harvey like really good. Where is that from?

The real deal

I miss more Destiny printable characters

Are you priming and base coating?

Andrew Sternglass yeh been using a primer spray paint of white then try to paint still doesn’t look good lol

What are you using now and are you hand painting or Airbrushing?

I use Vallejo Hobby Paint in a rattle can to prime, then use Vallejo Model Air to airbrush, and finish off (once decals are applied) with Testors Dullcote from a rattle can or Aztek clear matte from an a/b. If I need to apply with a brush, I use anything from Vallejo, Reaper, AK Interactive, or even craft paints.

White primer will be hard to cover without a few layers. Use grey or a colour that will suit the majority of the models final colour.

I use Vallejo paints for what I do.

I’ve been using a generic white primer - I think it’s Rustoleum? And Reaper paints to cover. (Which is what I use for my traditional minis.). Seems to cover pretty well with just one coat.

raise the exposure up by half a second and try again. looks like the supports just about failed at the contact points. that or make the contact points massive but then more work cleaning up afterwards

add more supports or make them stronger / or add some second or two

Chris Thompson I am using these parameters

Gus Alfaro exposure time is very low there, not sure what resin your using but no harm in trying higher

Chris Thompson im using Anycubic grey

Gus Alfaro I'm using Elegoo ABS like resin and it at 12 seconds. lowest I been was Transparent green at 6 or 7 seconds.

Ok first off the ball end supports suck , change those to pyramid or cone ect and then make sure depth they go in is atleast .35 to .40 and then add more supports ,

Chris Thompson transparent green at 8 sec ??‍♂️

What slicing software are you using?

Daniel Rønning It the green can go lower but tbh if its working dont tweak hehe

For supports prusa slicer then anycubic slicer

Chris Thompson i worked my way down, cause i was getting prints with streaks and prints with less details. so i have tried a lot of different stuff now, and 8sec works for me :)

Gus Alfaro maybe try chitubox?

Hmm, to be honest, yes i have... When i run into a such roadblock with blender, i just begin again from nothing. Many times the issue with boolean is something that you dont see or have missed somewhere and to find it takes more time than remodeling th e whole thing. Look for doubles in vertices, two points in the same location, also check the normals, in edit mode press A key, then select mesh from the tool bar, normals and recalculate outside, if the surface is not pointing out, the boolean doesnt work correctly. Again mesh and then clean up from where merge by distance, to get rid off double vertices.

Hope that helps...

If you're using a modifier to do the boolean operation, make sure scale and rotation is applied to both objects (that's the Blender equivalent of "have you tried turning it off and back on again?" because it solves so many problems)

https://youtu.be/aicfWsQ2HRo

Thats the tutorial we started with. All the other numbers and the custom 1 and 20 work fine.

Also, when a boolean doesn't look the way you expect it to (whether using the modifier or within edit mode), try setting the overlap/merge threshold value to zero.

Keep at it, i hope you get it worked out.

Also, might try to model the number four to the face on the dice body, that way you can be sure to have the shape in the object without using boolean... Hard to give more indepth advice here.

There are multiple ways to skin that cat... Lol

There ya go...

when you convert the text to a mesh, and extrude it, do make sure the normals are okay... Edit mode, Mesh > Normals > Recalculate outside. do the same for the dice body after boolean...

Elegoo Grey. ? It's pretty consistent even through different stocks of bottles

Siraya fast grey. I’ve gone through 4 liters and the 5th is on order.

The e-sun washable white has given me the best results over Anycubic, Eryone and Elegoo.

The anycubic green was good to me, but didn't work well for what I print on the machine. Elegoo abs-like has also worked great and is now my go to.

ToAuto

Monocure Clear gives me great results

Siraya tech fast grey

Elegoo is good, but I get Anycubic becuase it is cheap and it works

if you get the cheaper elegoo it is way cheaper and about the same quality as anycubic green if not maybe a little better
30$ instead of 65? yes please....

I have only used Anycubic green and transparent. Both give great results.

I'm using the Elegoo water washable Gray and I've had no issues with it.
Print quality is great and for the obvious, its food that you only need water to clean your prints.

Anycubic grey mixed with tenacious or blue. Every time I use it up or dump it back into the bottle I switch to the other one. Keeps it tough and right now I am just about finished printing a slightly larger than ancient red dragon

Tried several Anycubic colours so far all with successes. Grey is my most used though

I had fantastic exp with Elegoo Gray, reasonable with Sain Smart(brittle), and Monoprice has just pissed me off with fails non stop.

All of them

Yep. Same!

If you have patience and don't mind doing the post cure in water. Siraya ABS like yellow. Takes about 18s exposure though.

Nova3D transparent green turned out by far my best.
Green resin in general is the fastest curing, because green absorbs UV light best

What's the most flexible resin you have used? Want to make frames for medical shields.

Monocure works great for me

Eileen Forman monocure flex100

Anycubic trans green is my fav, with primer

Cannabis one, best results I have ?

anycubic grey

Anycubic black and skin.
Monocure i trashed 2 liters, cheap scrap.

Siraya Tech Fast

Anycubic green and elegoo gray are my favorites.

This is my particular go-to as well. I don't keep a meticulous ratio, but I think I'm about 70/15/15 of grey:tenacious:blu. Extra small supports sometimes break away prematurely but I haven't had any major failures.

Yeah about the same ratio just kinda eyeball it

I have good success with anycubic grey, Siraya tenacious and Siraya Blu. I don't keep a meticulous ratio, but I think I'm about 70/15/15 of grey:tenacious:blu blended together. Extra small supports sometimes break away prematurely but I haven't had any major failures.

I've found the cheap/fast/simple style resins are very brittle so the tenacious makes them less risky to handle.

I wish the gray and green weren't completely sold out. Just used up my last bottles of both about two weeks ago, and I miss it so.

Ted Brockwood I just ordered some last week. Keep an eye out and set up notifications if you can for when it comes back in stock!

Siraya Tech Fast Grey or Black

All water washable versions:
Polyjuice translucent blue and clear, Elegoo translucent blue, white, and grey.

If you have patience, Siraya ABS like yellow. I top the bottle off with siraya blu and it takes about 18s exposure.

https://monocure3d.com.au/

I saw someone else post something about 50 percent off a model. At Gambody? Explain?

Every Monday they reduce a model for 55% of the original price. They send you an email with a riddle but this week I don't have an idea what is the solution

Completely odor free? Go see a doctor about that anosmia ;)

Photon S - no. Upgrades help reduce odor, yet it'd be present

Bob Deblier how's that? Mine Zero is also odorless during operation.
Until I open the lid, obviously

It was a big worry for me as my other half and my kids use the room frequently, but there is seriously no smell , or I would get it in the ear!

Oleksandr Panforov thank you....do you think its becasue of the cabinet style lid?

Lee Rogers trust me, there is. Maybe your nose doesn't pick it up. Seems to be common in this group. I don't have a super sensitive nose, but I cannot enter the room I'm printing in without an active carbon face mask.

I have a zero, it's faint but there is a smell. And yeah, it's still there though.

Lee Rogers I assume it's due to questionable fumes extraction design.
I believe it was supposed to be filtered via charcoal filters. That was not very effective.

Cabinet style lid compliments to that.

I'm also printing in my living room, and the best I've done to reduce smell - bought Anycubic Eco resin.

3m filter I've installed also helps.

Lee Rogers like so. My very special printing corner

Bob Deblier I have this in the dining room . No odour until lid is off. This is a photon zero.

Oleksandr Panforov fab thank you

Original Photon - absolutely not! It throws all the fumes out from the print area with a loud fan. With modifications it gets quite unstinky.

You can install a carbon filter inside the printing area and circulate the air through it to reduce smell even more.

Dan Andersson thank you . Do you mean printed parts to direct the fan?

SAME lol I love my zero and want another one lol I keep mine in the garage so smell isn't an issue. From what research I've done it's more about the resin brand then the printer :) I use elegoo gray with little to no smell

Jolene Sweeney I've tried a few bramds, and even without the lid on the water washable resins are really low odour! I like the e-sun ones.

Here is the filter holder I made: https://cults3d.com/....../anycubic-photon-active-coal......

It uses the original fan. It circulates the air inside the printing area through the carbon filter.

Dan Andersson perfect thank you. I can get the photon off Ali Express for £188 delivered, but I was concerned about the smell. I take it you can buy these carbon filters from Amazon ?

Lee Rogers Most likely yes. I used activated carbon pellets which I bought from a local allergy store. Pellets can be usually also found in aquarium shops.
With my FDM printer I had a holder for activated carbon mat. It was designed to be used in the oven filter in the kitchen. Worked also well.

No smell does not mean no harmful fumes.

Dan Andersson that's brilliant, thanks for all your help ?

I don’t notice any printers smell myself. Neither does anyone in the family actually. Only when I open them I have 9 different resin printers for reference. I think it depends on how sensitive you are I guess

Kevin Boogaard I understand that, but that wasnt the query. I still use mask, but I dont want an odour filling the room as I dont have an outside area I can use.

John Chrapkowski thank you, I'm with you on this!

the cleaning agents are what smell ?

John Chrapkowski very true ?

I wasn’t talking about you ?

Kevin Boogaard ah I get ya ? little people are banned from the room when printing. I hardly trust myself at 46 let alone a 9 or old being in the same room ? ?

Haha, you are a smart person then ?

This is the BEST I've gotten out of it so far and these are tiny lil orcs super light weight

I had the same thing with a liter of Anycubic Green. The 500ml that came with the printer was amazing. I bought a liter and no matter what I did it failed 80% of the time. That being said I imagine that this is cheap resin with little to no quality control so one bottle may be pure shit and the other perfectly normal. Reminds me of when I was in the Navy drinking San Miguel beer from the Philippines. One bottle 2% alcohol the next 15%.

Chris D'Andrea big oofff...I bought the anycubic green and I'm wondering if that's why my prints are coming out poorly

I had no issue with anycubic green. Did have problems with plate adhesion on Siraya easy but monoprice plate bond fixed that. Everything else is exposure tuning and making sure you shake the bottle well. Also if it’s too cold at the resin it may not react properly. All my prints are done in 63 F apartments.

Sean Croteau yeah I know I have no problems at all with any of the any cubic resins it's only this Monoprice resin that I've had this particular issue with. Average ambient temperature in my house is 61° Fahrenheit to 69 degrees Fahrenheit depending on the time of day

You had me at stay away from monoprice ? ?

Andy Turtle Consiglio I mixed it with Elegoo Gray 70-30(favored gray) and it made really nice prints.

Nice! I'll check it out!

Andy Turtle Consiglio I also really liked how it looked it's a different kind of green for sure it's almost like a creamy green. I still painted over it, but it was nice to look at.

Chris D'Andrea anycubic Green is my fav. Nothing but awesome over 3 bottles. Anycubic clear on the other hand wasted half, then mixed the rest with green to save it

Vincent yeah zero QC but that's expected (at least I feel that way)