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Nice

how

Looks awesome !

Very nice!

Thats insane

How did you get it to print flat on plate? I'm printing MI I figures and would love for them to print flat on the plate like the demo cube printed

That is just awesome! Settings please and orientation info would be appreciated!

Tony Gonzalez just add supports.. there is a pic in this group of orientation

Russell Beer settings in post, photo of orientations in group

assembled parts

Jonathan .

after buffing

after buffing

after buffing

for scale and color used

Thats great. What is the scale? 1:24?

Dylan Drummond not sure.. I just scaled it 50% of thingiverse as a desk model

For a moment i thought those were vegetables

It looks pretty close. Be interesting to find out.

Amazing! I've owed a few 1LE Camaros so I knew my way around the LS3. That's fabulous looking!

All the LS blocks are super cheap here in Aus - pls just give me your print file ?

We like your LS3 powered sedans with manuals here too :)

thats the spirit

OMG

I need it for a model
Where did you find it?

That’s ridiculous!

Anthony Dawson

Andrea Cafiero thingiverse.. says that in initial post

Bad ass!

Definitely not 1/24 scale. A 1/24-25. Judging by how it is sitting on that mat, the heads look to be about 3" long, which would probably put this in the 1/8-1/12 range

Russell Butler heads are less than 2” long

That’s awesome. STL for the rest of the vette?

Tyson O'Haver no its a camaro motor

I prefer the '99 VT series out of all of them, had the 5.7 and 5.0 in them. Beastly but no crossmember in the engine bay so they sag like tittiez

That its amazing!!!!! Is that casteable resin or is it just normal one?

I'm first to mention gloves while holding the build plate? Huh.

Pedro Torres normal

Andrew Goins meh

Andrew Goins who uses gloves?

Me apparently. It's been implied I'd likely die otherwise. Lol

did you get a pick of the crankchaft as well?

Shane McAlister i didnt..

Hoghead Hoffer dang, would have liked to see that bit, model looked pretty cool

Wow.

Andrew Goins not quickly. slow painful deaths are the best!

Hoghead Hoffer can confirm. Am slowly dying by the day, and I'm sure life shall be extremely painful at some point, like when I stub my toe.

I work on these motors for a living, and I’m baffled by 1) the level of detail in the file, and 2) how much of that detail you were able to accomplish! Outstanding job!

taking it to the next level. :)

That’s amazing J.R. DeJesus well done

Mark Wardle 100%

Damo Cramp much appreciated

That looks awesome! Is the figure itself articulated or just a static print?

This is awesome! You really took it to the next level. Do you have the rest of them printed on the shelf above too?

James Witchard thanks, it’s a static piece but it is segmented for ease of printing and appearance

What printer (2D) do you have for these big prints?

Amazing ?

Amazing

Awesome!

Codey Meeks thanks & yes

Shig Bergin I print on 11” x 17” and splice the larger parts together like I use to with refacing counter tops ?

Amazing work

Haha damn great work

J.R. DeJesus that's cool as hell! You're doing a solid job on everything man. Definitely post it all finished ?

Yeah, these were on my memory stick too. Just got my Photon just over a week ago. Had similar issue where prints were sticking to FEP rather than the bed unless I releveled the bed prior to each use. I picked up the Sprectrum mobile app for my phone and tuned the FEP to around 330Hz and did a good print run yesterday without any issues after just leveling it once.

John Bkly As in tightening the FEP? I have no issues releveling every time lol

Yep, tightened the FEP and twanged it a few times while monitoring the results on the Spectrum app on my phone.

John Bkly I had no idea you could do that. Guess I’m downloading that app now lol

If you google it or look it up on Youtube, there are a few vids where they talk about it.

John Bkly Awesome! Thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr_wtZqBfbQ

I honestly haven’t had any problems with the ball and screw

Jarin Udom nothing wrong with it, if you know what you are doing.

Brian Jones Well I mean that applies to basically all of 3D printing hahah

Jarin Udom ok fair point. I was leaning to the mechanical side of the machine. Personally I love the damn thing, and I am ecstatic to have one.

The Zero bed / arm mount SUCKS.. Why would you want more of that?!

what did you not like about yours ?

Rigo Arevalo The stamped aluminum "top" piece that attaches to the arm torques the bottom "bed" plate no matter how I attempt to tighten it, resulting in one side lower than the other.

The zero is terrible.

The ball and socket leveling is far, far better than most other options (just tighten the damn thing)

90% ofnthosenwho complain about their leveling slipping just don't tighten it enough but blame the mechanism rather than themselves

hmm, I think I’m understanding you, but did you level the bed by listening the 4 screws *after* making sure the top know was tight? I don’t have any issues with it at all. I love it because I changed my ball to the ex leveler on my photon and it’s been so good after that

You didn’t like yours either ?

Rigo Arevalo yep. The minute you tighten the first one, the stamped metal “top” piece twists it. No matter how careful you are, it’s going to be off one side or the other..

Rigo Arevalo

John Driggers Mine is the same way but I have been printing with no problems so far.

Craig Gardner Same - I can get it to within about 0.35mm side to side. It's just frustrating on what's otherwise a really nice, inexpensive printer. I'm working from home for the foreseeable. so I'll have some quality time to see if I can figure out how to correct it or compensate for it.

I'm not sure, and I am new and the zero is my first printer. But I seemed to have leveled mine fine, no issues there. But I guess if I had other printers too maybe I would understand, I guess.

I have the Saturn, the Zero, the Mars, and the photon.

Both the leveling systems work perfectly.

James Bricknell amazing - how did you level the Zero?

John Driggers loosen the screws, put paper on the lcd, Set z=0, push down the bed, and tighten screws.

Done.

James Bricknell nice - mine twists to the side when you attempt to tighten the screws.

John Driggers hmm that's weird. Even if you tighten them evenly?

James Bricknell yeah. When you get to the point of actually tightening one, it torques the plate. I’ve got it pretty level now but it’s been a right pain in the arse.

John Driggers sounds a damn pain in the ass

James Bricknell what’s the price point on the Saturn?

Ian Henry we don't know yet. I'll let you all know as soon as I can though

Oh mine is flat, I don’t have any issues with that. Maybe that newer bed has a slight manufacturing issue? Is the bed bolted to that upper part ?

Rigo Arevalo looks like a different bed at least.

I really like that one, I’m sure that’s where the problem is tho, have you contacted them regarding this maybe that part just needs replacing. Do you have some compound squares or other measuring tools to see if that thing is “square” ok all axis ?

Rigo Arevalo yeah, I’ve a surface table and associated measuring tools, going to have a play with it later this evening.

I’ve dropped a note to Anycubic support , not heard anything back.

Last night I was averaging 0.8mm side to side, referencing the bed to the lcd. Front to back was not as bad at 0.5mm.

John Driggers Do you tighten 1 and then move to the next? Then that is your problem...
In a "system" like that, you need to give each a turn before you completely tighten to prevent torque movement.

Basically like your fep replacement, you give each screw a turn in a X pattern... until their all tight.

Xi-Sheng Luo Yep - try left to right, criss / cross, everything.

With half/quarter turns?

-edit:
If it moves when you give it like quarter turns, It usually is because then it is "settling" into it's neutral position. (you know, like when you tighten a screw in a hole that has a recess for the screw.)

Only works for *.photon and *.cbddlp files.

That's usually the only problem people have. Besides really big file size taking forever and a day to load.

It was in .photon but everytime I clicked open nothing would load

Last advice is to update your Java, since that's what it runs in.

I mean, if anyone could, there’d be a whole lot less recommending Chitubox to begin with.

What issue are you having with it?

There is no best. Prusaslicer tends to be better at general support creation but has issues with very tiny islands. Chitubox I used for actual slicing. Use the validator to see what PS missed and fiddle around with support adding until I am island free . Neither chitubox nor prusaslicer will cover all islands. But the one thing that prusaslicer had over chitubox for sure is a optimal orientation algorithm to minimize unsupported island/create the least amount of supports needed

Davy Struyf so prusa for supports, then into validator for island checking and then into chitubox for final slicing

Why all the hate for Chitubox?

Sex

Pizza

Formwate 3d. But it'll cost ya! I have found it to be a fantastic programme.

When I save the file to print in CHITUBOX, it shows me only format option (photons)

When I enter my USB to the printer, the file does not appear for printing

big ups to formware, the slicing is slow but the featureset is top tier

Miles Redman agreed. It can be considerably slower to slice. But the tool set is amazing.

That's because a .chitubox file is a project file that can only be opened in chitubos as a project. .photon files are what your printer reads in order to print..

what printer you use ? Photon or Photon S if S will Appear file in you Drive

If you're using a Photon, not a Photon S, then you need to slice into Photon format. Look on the right hand side of Chitubox, you should see a button named "Settings". That'll bring up a dialog where you will see what printers you have available to u se on the left hand side; if it just says default, or if it says Photon S, then use the "New printer" button (paper with a + on it) and add a regular photon profile. Select that, input settings, and re-slice.

Shawn O'Hara What can i do?

ดลยวัต จิรายุสกุล I have Photon S.
Where can i find it (drive)

Edward Hill
I did it from the start (Photon S)
It only allows me to save it in a single format.
What can i do?

Luis Enrique Juarez Soriano Hold up.... Where are you trying to save it from? What steps are you using to save it I mean?

Also, double check to make sure your USB drive is formated in FAT32. I had that issue just today where I used it for something else and forgot to reformat back.

And if you are using the USB drive that came with the Photon, as it seems that you are since it has the stock printer folders listed, I'd recommend getting rid of that and using another one. The thumb drives that come with the printer are notoriously bad.

Shawn O'Hara
Wow!
Excellent, you're right.
I will change USB
I hope it is the solution
Thanks friend ?

Another thing is if you have the photon workshop, you can drag the file and open it there, and basically resave is as .pws

Lychee slicer

Lychee Slicer for sure, much better.

Form labs slicer

lychee

Colton Wilkins useable with msla?

ALSO... get your firmware updated to v 5.0.2 then you can use photon, photos or .PWS files on your Photon-S -
problem solved :)

.formware slicer but it costs more than the photon ;)

Formware 3D

Lychee slicer

Formware - its the best!

Formware I might give a shot since it has a free trial. But lycheslicer doesnt so skipping that. Not ponying up almost 50 bucks hoping it works better than the free alternatives

Prusa slicer for supporting!

Harley DeBeaudrap that's too much work honestly. no one should have to go through 3 programs to get a decent print.
someone needs to combine the best of the 3.

fusion 360 is adding its own slicer not sure if they will have a DLP support, BUT you can design your own custom support structures. so hopefully they add DLP if they dont support it already. the slicer is new so i dont know a lot about it yet.

misses a crap ton of island and refuses to put them down. hell I have had the dots on the model where it KNOWS about the island but still doesn't do anything. had to either edit the STL and add tiny pillars myself or fight chitubox.

Davy Struyf yeah a bit of manual editing is needed, but it can be tuned pretty well. i only fucked up 1 print so far, and that was user error. Way better than placing them all manually, and also more reliable than chitubox.

Do you have any recommendation software wise?

Lychee slicer

Richárd Papp none really. None are good enough. For example this model. You see those grey dots. Islands. Prusa slicer knows they are island. Refuses to place them. Even chitubox was being a pain to get it working.

It knooooows

Davy Struyf try to readjust them a bit manually. i have these happenings too and i can make them work, and sometimes orientation of the model is the key, autoorientation gives a good clue but sometimes it doesn't care about if it places the support on the face or the back of the head.

Richárd Papp i did. No matter it didnt create a support. And personally I prefer just printing minis straight. But eh auto orientation still ends up with stuff like this.

If I didnt do a photon validator run before 90% of these minis I would of had flat spots and failures

Davy Struyf Weird, i have no issues with it

Davy Struyf

Richárd Papp larger prints have way less issues but dnd minis man it misses alot. Run those STLs with the supports through validator you would be suprises how many mini islands happen and get auto fixed.

Davy Struyf I print dnd sized minis also, without issue if i correct few supports manually and orienting it correctly. Idk bro, im glad it works for me even for the most tiny details. I will check this validator , but i had no issues at all so far.

Davy Struyf

Richárd Papp the lizard dude on the right. You see how he has one foot up. No supports were generated by prusa slicer. His toes would of just been printing touching nothing for like 10-20 layers. Prusa slicer knew that his foot was essentially floating but did nothing. The support markers were there. I even put some extra manually. Nothing. Chitu didnt want to work either so I had to go into 3D builder and put tiny rods underneath the toes. To make sure his foot printer properly.

Davy Struyf weird! i gotta do it manually a few times, but i just need to click it and it applies the support. if it doesn't , than i need to readjust the angle of it, and than it works properly.

which version do you have ? maybe you have some older version or i really dont know! :D but im glad you found your workaround

Actually the model on the left. You see his left knee and how its flat and looks like its peeled. Yeah. That was one model i printed a version that I didnt fix yet. Its a giant island but neither prusa slicer or chitu put down supports

Richárd Papp latest prusaslicer. Tried the latest RC. Same issue. You got a screenshot of your supports settings. Also if you want i can send you the stl and you can try and make it work.

Yes you just make the supports then export and use photon slicer. Same with chitubox you shouldn’t be using chitubox to slice models. Only support

Davy Struyf i gladly would try it! i don't set nothing special up for the supports.

i use black anycubic resin , config from the resin spreadsheet.

feel free to send me the file, i want to try it

Better in what?

Most frustrating part of prusa slicer. I wish you could also drag the pillars around and leave the contact point in place. I think there some weird min distance issues they need to get sorted.

Prusaslicer +Chitubox = 100% success rate so far

Just asking but what was the symptoms of ur motherboard failing?

Tyron Craft the stepper motor driver in the motherboard was not operating the motor. They sent me a new one

Great print!

i think this is from the Fauxton board? idk though. i have seen the yellow display from some peole

Gregory Akin is that a good thing

No idea man I've had heard both sides

Thats a really cool skull

Only if it has leaked really

Robert Murdock no leak, but a smaller part I printed closer to that side failed, so I assumed that was the reason

Until it drips, it prints.

Cellux ?

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