My first printer, here we go........

[rockpopandchips]

Was given an Anycubic resin print a few days back and just starting my learning today. Going with the ancubic software for a start to get things going and just printing the test model now, its looking OK at the moment.

 

Any tips or advice on set up ect gladly accepted.

 

cheers Brian.

 

[Black Knight]

Keep the printer, the resin and the room very warm

Shake the resin well before pouring it into the vat

Filter the resin every time after a session and putting it back in the bottle

Lightly scrub the printing plate with either a scouring pad or fine grade wet & dry paper

[rockpopandchips]

5 minutes ago, Black Knight said:

Keep the printer, the resin and the room very warm

Shake the resin well before pouring it into the vat

Filter the resin every time after a session and putting it back in the bottle

Lightly scrub the printing plate with either a scouring pad or fine grade wet & dry paper

Well that got me off to good start as I did all those things..... forgot the mask when cleaning up, will not do that again....

 

First print, do I jump right into a figure bust next?

 

Getting my head around supports next I think.

 

[Black Knight]

Why not dive straight in? Let the slicer programme place the supports for you

 

I use water-washable resin so I don't need a mask so I didn't mention it

[rockpopandchips]

41 minutes ago, Black Knight said:

Why not dive straight in? Let the slicer programme place the supports for you

 

I use water-washable resin so I don't need a mask so I didn't mention it

I will do, going with a 100mm Dead Pool bust, using recommended setting and supports, print time is nearly 8hrs so will start in the morning so I can keep on eye on things. I will report back when I have somthing to show.

 

Fingers crossed....👍

[Black Knight]

It probably won't take that long. The time will adjust as it prints

But never ever leave your printer alone whilst its on and printing. You can do other things in the house but never go out

[rockpopandchips]

I have a question on scale as I going to printing in 48th scale for a diorama.

 

Screen shot of my file I want to print but how do I know how big these are?

 

Is the Y the length and the Z the hight of the modle or the total print size including the suports?

 

 

Cheers Brian

[PeteH1969]

Always scale a part on the flat (as it will be used after printing) with no supports if you have multiple parts that go together to make a model scale all of the parts at the same time and write down the % figure you scale the parts by.

 

If you scale with supports on and with the part orientated the width, length & Height of the part will be the incorrect scale as the supports/base will slue the measurement.

 

I hope this helps?

 

Pete

[ICMF]

12 hours ago, Black Knight said:

But never ever leave your printer alone whilst its on and printing.

 

Why?

[Mike]

58 minutes ago, ICMF said:

 

Why?

 

It could print more of itself and take over the world!

[Ebf2k]

Go to Denys Wang's channel on you tube and watch his videos about supports.  His approach works well and he explains why it works.

[rockpopandchips]

5 hours ago, PeteH1969 said:

Always scale a part on the flat

Yeah, I realised that after looking at this for a bit. This file came pre-supported, I thought it was a good idea. The X access is still horizontal, so could I use that as a guide to scale it, its going in a mix of 43rd and 48th scale stuff anyway so 3 or 4mm out I can live with. Thanks for the help.

 

2 hours ago, Ebf2k said:

Go to Denys Wang's channel on you tube and watch his videos about supports.  His approach works well and he explains why it works.

I will do not one I have looked at yet. 

[rockpopandchips]

So feeling lucking this being my first real print and relatively large print.

 

Two pints of note, there is some lift from the base and to my surprise this hasn't effected the print...few! So what are the nood resons for this?

 

And the other thing is a few of the suports lengths have stuck to the print, I assume this is somthing to do with the angles in the suport settings?

 

[rockpopandchips]

And you can get a mor heath Robbins UV curring station than this.... 🤣.

 

[rockpopandchips]

Cleaned dryed and primed, now on the shelf of doom for the foreseeable!

 

[Ebf2k]

19 hours ago, rockpopandchips said:

 

 

Two pints of note, there is some lift from the base and to my surprise this hasn't effected the print...few! So what are the nood resons for this?

 

And the other thing is a few of the suports lengths have stuck to the print, I assume this is somthing to do with the angles in the suport settings?

 

 

Congrats, pretty good for a first print!

The lifting could be caused by either the base layers not being strong enough to support the weight of the print or to resist the peeling force of large layer surface area changes, like where the base of the bust starts to print.   It could also be that your film in the vat needs to be re-tensioned.   

 

The supports sticking to the print is because your print is wobbling/shifting as it prints, and possibly the resin you are using and/or your print settings are not able to create long straight rods that the supports use.  You can see how some of the vertical supports are a bit wavy, and in your last photo there is a noticeable print line running horizontally right across the mouth on the face.

 

Was this printed with a hollow interior?  If it was hollow and there were not sufficient drain/vent holes then you could also be dealing with some suction forces as you print.

[rockpopandchips]

Cheers @Ebf2k

 

For that first print, I hollowed it, but then added internal supports that I don't think it needed, the print probably ended up too heavy for the base layers. I did add 3 small holes but think these were way too small. 

The printer is sitting on some paper that has some movement in it so I'm putting those lines down to the base lifting and the wobble, I was also running the airbrush and extractor on the same bench so that probably didn't help either. 

 

For the next print, the Star Wars tantive, I maxed out the print size tweaked the base layer from 6 to 9, hollowed and used the auto support function. I also put holes in each engine (added details 😀). The print looks fine and the supports look nice and straight but look at them all. Surely I don't need that many, they are going to be fun to remove... yuck! I used only light supports, so I think this will be my next bit of learning. 

 

[rockpopandchips]

Things I have learn from this print, don't try and remove the suports before washing and getting some UV on your model, otherwise you can squash the details out of the kit.... What a noob!

 

Think about drainage holes more... doh!

 

Don't use auto suports, in Ancubic Workshop or the free version of Chitubox.

 

The rabbit hole of exposure time is massive, so look out for that one, and nobody will give you a strait answer. Run few exposure tests.

 

Cleaning is pain with just one icecream tub get a least 3... 😄

 

Anyway thats all my free resin just about used, might have enough to print a few minis next. Ordered another kg from Amazon, Sunlu, it's one i have seen on the side at cosmic models so it should be OK and was on offer.

 

Cheers for more help or words of wisdom.

 

Brian.

[PeteH1969]

Auto place supports and them g through an manually change to a lighter support and thin out the auto supports as it always places more than needed.

 

 

 

 

Pete

 

[Malc2]

Hi RP'nC,

Great to see you making the future of modelling come true!

@Bengalensis has also taken up the 3D printing challenge and mentioned some interesting points in the first post of his Alpine 2018 build:-

Malc.

[rockpopandchips]

Tried this pre file, load slice print. Worked out OK and has given me a little more idea on were to put suports.

 

 

A 32mm knife next on the printer.

[Hopsing]

I would also recommend a collapsible silicone funnel and a paint sieve.
These are useful things to always sieve through after misprints or when filling back into the bottle.
Another thing you might want to watch is Cones Of Calibration (Youtube)
Continued success!

[rockpopandchips]

On 7/21/2024 at 11:21 AM, Hopsing said:

Another thing you might want to watch is Cones Of Calibration (Youtube)
Continued success!

Do you know I just watched that and I'm going to get some printed with the Sunlu resin I have.

 

The Knight print failed completely, but his swort printed was 32 degrees C in the room at the time, so I'm putting in down to that.

[rockpopandchips]

Not all those that print don't paint.....most of my first prints are painted now ready to go on a Ready Player One diorama.

 

[rockpopandchips]

If your at all interested I have signed up to a patron and I'm on with printing some large figures scale down by 15% to fit my printer, so about 1/9.5 scale.