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Lupin :)

‘Simon’

You win the cookie, sir! ;)

The original!!!
That’s the best version of the model I’ve seen.

What did you used to scan? And what powder used?

Can I get the STL please ?

That looks great!

That looks amazing! Do you plan to share the stl?

Minolta Vi-910 - talcum powder.

Fraid not mate - it's still technically the property of the film company. Then there's the SFX company that paid me to scan it. ;)

See answer above, mate. All data that I've scanned is still technically the property of various production companies and film studios and thus not for general release.

3D Scanning Guy bummer.

Very cool! I've been collecting reference to make my own forever. What size was the maquette you scanned? I know Harryhausen did a lifesize Bubo and then a few other scales.

Also, can you recommend a cheap entry-level scanner for newbs? I volunteer at our local makerspace and am asked constantly if we have one.

Tiffany Jeanne Vincent life sized. I scanned the actual mechanical owl ?

I hope the price of scanners comes down soon.

You can get really good results with a phone camera and a £10 month's licence of Reality Capture in a Steam sale ;)

3D Scanning Guy I’ll look up Reality Capture

To be honest most of the cheap bespoke scanners aren't very good (like the Kinect solution). You really have to think about paying over $1000 for something? However, the best value option is to use Reality Capture, which is available on Steam (in the s ale it's about £10 for a month licence) and just use any camera above about 6MP. Just have nice in-focus images and nice diffuse lighting and you should get really good results.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/489180/RealityCapture/

You can give it away but not for money . You cant sell it.

3D Scanning Guy thanks !

Wow, I love it

That's probably not correct. Most contracts in the vfx and film world would prohibit him from even giving it away for free

3D Scanning Guy Holy crap . .it's now £30 a month !

This is so awesome! One of my favorite movies ever. ? ?

Perfect! And that's a solution I can show the kids that come in to 3D print!

Christian - Todd is correct, plus it would be pretty unethical, not to mention professionally suicidal. But apart from that... ?

Yeah, it pretty much got me into VFX as a kid. Ray Harryhausen was my absolute hero.

Guy, amazing work. Nice to see you here, got yourself a Photon? ?

Very nice what did you use for scanning?

looks like an expensive scanner couple of grand easy. :)

Excellent work. Interesting variations in detail throughout the prints too.

Sen Kun Lovng it! Gives me a reason to scan! ?

Kory Sebby An obsolete 10 year old Artec MHT (now superseded by the Eva) that I carted around Europe and the UK or World War Z, scanning zombies!

Mark Wardle Couple of grand now its 10yo and obsolete (maybe less?). Was maybe £7500 new?

Chris Yarrow The detail is consistent, but shows up way less on the grey ones. Really needs a zenithal spray like the middle one or a dry brush to make it pop (like the middle one.)

cool yea i knew it was a mega expensive one. nah never old at that price. still scans well. so defo not old. :)

What is scanner brand, man?

Great scanning,any advice for a cheaper 3d scanner?

I am looking for people figures for printing, can I provide or buy stl files ??? Thank you

Sure! What is it that you're looking to scan? People, or something else?

Artec MHT - it's obsolete now. The model that superseded it is the Eva.

3D Scanning Guy i would scann faces

3D Scanning Guy tks..how dose it cost?

wow 3d scanning has really come a long way! these are awesome

NIce and yeah i think i'll pass on that for now lol.

How big do the scan files come out to?

Whatever size you want - the deal with scanning has always been that you always have too much data, and decimate it to the largest size you're comfortable working with.

This system is 10 years old ;) To be honest in terms of the data scanning hasn't really changed at all in 25 years - this was my first ever commercial head scan, 23 years ago (eek!). Bjork for the Hunter video...

Hong Phong Nguyen The MHT or the Eva? The former is hard to get hold of, but would probably set you back about $2K? The latter is probably nearer $5K used, $8K-$10K new.

Damir Dalila Suljević Faces or whole heads?

Your best bet is here: https://www.3dscanstore.com/

3D Scanning Guy faces would be fine,it is for dental use

If you have a new iPhone or iPad pro with face ID, download bellus3d

Todd Horvath no i don t have it. I am on android

They have a android app but you have to be there depth scanner attachment which is like $400

Todd Horvath what would be a good iPhone app to scan 3D objects?

Todd Horvath what would be a good iPhone app to scan 3D objects?

Damir Dalila Suljević What's your budget?

Wow, that's pretty awesome. You seem to know your scanning stuff. What would you recommend for a budget scanner? Or even better, a kit/build your own?

well for basic scanning of people you could use the kinect 1. if using a pc make sure you have the powerpack version of the kinect 1. that's the cheap way. or use photogrammetry using Recap Pro it has Recap Photo. awesome software. free. or you could b uy a hand scanner costing above 5k or you could use the shining einscan se on a tripod capturing scans at a time then building them together. cost is about 1.2k main problems with scanning the subject is them standing or sitting still. so the longer the scans the more chance for errors with the model. again depending on the scanner. but again i have seen awesome photogrammetry scans setups using loads of cams all setup to take the photos all in one go. but that would be a costly setup.

dont bother with any laser scanners like the cowtech 2 laser setup. not easy for a new user. scans are made with point clouds that need to be converted into a mesh. avoid. avoid. you just wasting money

Mark Wardle awesome. Thanks for the info. Will def have to look around. Awesome work by the way!

Mark Wardle haha. Good to know

3D Scanning Guy let s say under 500€. But i am open for geek solutions too. Something like 2 cellphones on a jig

What are you looking to scan? What's your budget?

Absolute budget basement cost vs performance is probably Reality Capture. It's a piece of photogrammetry software that you can get on Steam on a month'[s licence for about $10 (in a Steam sale - $30 usually - just add it to your wishlist for knowing wh en a sale is on.) You may wonder why you'd want just one month's licence? Just take a crapload of photos and then process them all in the one month you have until you next need it. Believe me, that's a LOT of models you can produce.
That said you'll need to haunt photogrammetry forums to know how to get the best results, but tbh that's the same with any scanning solution. There's no magic bullet.
You can photogrammetry people with one camera - you just need to a) get them to sit really still (or support their head/scan them lying down) and b) be prepared to do a lot of editing - but again that's par for the course with ANY scanning - you HAVE to learn how to edit polygons, but there's plenty of good free software around these days (MeshLabs, Meshmixer etc.)
Kinect is a reasonably cheap way to go if you want to scan low resolution people or small environments, but the quality really isn't that great. It's fine if you want to leave textures on and do a colour print, but not for Photon level stuff - unless you intend to scale it down REALY small!
You can pick up some pretty cheap (i.e. $1000) Minolta Vivid laser scanners. They're old but come with three lenses, are easy to use and can scan a whole variety of things - even people! But again you HAVE to know how to edit and sculpt polys if you want to be able to use a system like this for people. But I scanned these guys using just that set-up, so it IS possible - and cheap... ish! Just just have to have a lot of practice ;)

"still scans well. so defo not old" - that's basically me ?

Damir Dalila Suljević In that case get yourself some cheap either Nikon D3200/D5200 with the bog standard cheapo 50mm nikon lens or some cheap Canons (I'm a Nikon man myself though!). As many as you can get for your budget. Then just rig them up on a t ripod/light stand to all point at the subject at diffrerent levels... and walk around it. Feed the images into Reality Capture (on Steam - wait for the sale when it's £10 for a month's licence), and hey presto. You'll still need to know your stuff editing the polys, but that's the best way. Personally with $500 I'd get a single Nikon D7100 and the cheap 50mm (may be cheap but it's sharp as a knife), and just shoot with that.

3D Scanning Guy so mostly miniatures and small things and after buying multiple printers and gear I have a very slim budget. Haha. But like scanning symbols and jewelry for embossing. Etc.

Zachary Koterba Miniatures is kind of unique - if you want to do it with photogrammetry then you'll need to invest in some focus stacking software - when you go macro it's hard to get depth of field and that's crucial with good photogrammetry results. But that's still your best bet - I'd go for a Nikon D7100 and the Nikkor 40mm Micro/Macro - it's a fiddly macro lens cos you have to get real close, but it's got hardly any distortion on the lens. You're looking at maybe $500 for that setup (buy used). Use a ring flash or ring flash attachment to a Speedlight. But you HAVE to do focus stacking. You're better off scanning/photoing bigger stuff and then shrinking it to miniature size ;)
The other option is jewellery scanners and stuff like the Artec Spider but you need REAL deep pockets that that kind of kit! ($10K+) but it's the best for doing minis. You can rent a Spider for about $250/$300 per day.

Print the spear with a mix of flex100. No more breaking.

Tim Layne is that an additive or a different resin?

The best high tech!

Good idea

Amazing !!! Well written and look forward to the firmware update

Well done. Acknowledging mess up is a sign of maturity in my books!

Thanks for the support, it's nice to know you guys listen and take the community advise on board, now can I get a larger photon build plate/printer ;)

This is what it means to be an honest company. Glad to see you address the community in the proper way. Looking forward to the predator as well!

This is awesome! I'm so glad for investment into this product! The thing is we want you to succeed, as a company and as innovators. This is really a great step in the right direction.

ditto

That’s great news, thanks!

Thank you for the communication and news updates!

Wow. I'm impressed.

And excited for AA!

What was the stupid announcement from yesterday? I can't find it.

Tom Erem

Zach Kirk I wanna know too tho

Sean O'Hayer is AA that big of am upgrade?

it is on the pinned post on top of the page, which forms part of the response the group made to their PIS

https://scontent.fbne3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/....../54264006...... .

For those that are wondering what this is in relations to -

Anycubic made an announcement March 11th, then it was removed a few days later after negative community feedback.

Our core group of admins and members drafted an open letter in response and on behalf of the community to seek clarification and better engagement and product .

ANYCUBIC apologizing to the community shows maturity, but action speaks louder then words, please show your support by liking the pinned post on the top of the group page.

Awesome! You really do care about the Photon Ecosystem,

Cheers!

Kudos for admitting when you are wrong! I'm excited to see AA coming to your printers soon. :)

This is good news, however no upgrade kits to upgrade photon to the photon S despite being in essentially the same chassis

Wow good to see.

Very well written....thank you

People over reacting to the original statement ?

I think the fact that you are willing to admit to making a mistake and even it being stupid speaks very much to your credit. Good for you!
I'm very happy with my photon and recommend it to anyone that asks for advice on buying a printer.

I always love you. ? ? ❤️

Admitting you are wrong and apologizing? Unicorn-rare stuff on the Internet!

If anything that just took me from a dude that bought 1 product from anycubic, to a dude that will definitely look at anycubic for the next addition.

James Hendrix Only if it's tuned correctly. Here's an earlier conceptual / experimental video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qTAmPrHLow

Congrats to you having the greatness to apologize !

Look at that. That’s how you fix a problem. Quickly and with an apology. THATS how you make life time photonsters. Bravo anycubic.

Amy , 你是这世界的美丽之光。

Also, something you ALL should note.
250 employees?! THATS insanely small compared to how many of us are in this group. (Around 10k)

Nick Williams

Some persuasion was needed.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AnycubicPhoton/permalink/1606191166192186/

Sen Kun oh I saw. Which is why I’m so impressed. It was a QUICK response.

Vinicius Silva Sen Kun thank you for all the love ,power, help , support , Engagements you put into this group

And Kevin Rank , Mark Wardle , Toby Kirkby , 陳彦廷 , and countless other Photonsters and core community members you don't hear much from but are putting in so, so much behind the scenes for all of us, to help us all do the printy things we love.

Nice!

This is a great reaction from AnyCubic.
Reading the PIS from March 11th I did see why Vinicius Silva posted the open letter. On the other hand, we also have to see this from AnyCubis's side.
Let's say I install a new non-original speedometer in my car and then start posting all my speeding tickets on FB because it reports lower than actual speeds. Before you know, this message gets shared around the world - neglecting the fact that I was the one creating the problem ...

Yann Marchal ça peut t'intéresser

The original statement threatened legal action. If anybody is to be accused of overreaction it isn’t the community.

What's the TLDR of the post that they made? (This is kind of lengthy and very small blury text)

Looking forward to the new update!

We learn from our mistakes. Looking forward to the update! Keep it up guys you're going to be OK!

You are right, BUT threatening legal action is not the way a company can prevent this. Having great ties with the community and good social network presence is the right way in the 21st century. Glad they understand that.

Thanh M. Vu check the main announcement, there is a link to the PDF

Someone give me the TLDR of what just happened

Great!

AnyCubic placed a letter on their webpage that pissed off a lot of people. They meanwhile removed this letter and send out a messages stating "sorry, we messed up - should not have been done.".
Best of all: they also promised to give us AA function on the standard Photon ?

good guy Anycubic

I have anycubic photon i want buy upgrades for this awsome printer

Yes we are just the show face of the group; the real Masters are the great team of Admins and Devs working in the background :)

What was the story? I don’t understand why they read open letter. Who can explain me ?

One step back, followed by two steps forward. Thank you for your open letter. Looking forward to testing AA on the Photon!

This is why I love this community and why I still recommend the Photon to everyone on my Miniature page that asks.

Nicolas Poussin same here

Everyone makes mistakes. It's how they respond to them that defines their character.

For a young company from China like this it is an amazing response. I've seen other companies get very defensive and hostile in similar situations. Very well done Anycubic!!!

Rob Jansen added bonus!

Thank you Vinicius Silva !

Well done Anycubic!

Keep your users happy and you will continue to have a powerful set of products.

For me, AA is absolutely key. I understand that you want to push the Photon S but please don’t do it to the detriment of your existing products. W love to ‘tinker’ but understand that we will void our warranty.

If you could offer upgrades or mods for your existing printers then I have no doubt that you would get some strong sales.

Thank you to Vinicius Silva , and others for maintaining a strong link to Anycubic in our behalf.

This is very positive, although it is definitely the result of community pressure, it would be nice if Anycubic was more pro-active in that sense and listen more to their members who are passionate and big supporters of your brand, this would be a win- win scenario, especially in these times where other brands start competing in the same area.
Your user base is invaluable and can help you keep that leading edge you need against other brands, communication is everything.

It's not just that. It was also the design choices they made on their new photon-s.

For about the same money they could have built a much better printer if they had listened to the collective advice that grew from the methodically investigation curation and verification done by the photonsters on the information shared on this group.

That and the fact that by having a new Photon-S that is not compatible with the old files, they have just thrown away more than a years worth of Free, No strings attached, Open Source research.

We are in it for the improvement of the community and challenging the status quo of the industry, not for fame and fortune. You can confirm this by reading our default license here:
https://github.com/....../PhotonstersDefaultLicense/LICENSE

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Personally I'm very happy that they had the courage to admit to their mistake and retract their PIS

Now I just hope that they back James words with coherent
actions.

Namely, open up their Photon-S file format to the photonsters so we can port the open software and support new users.

Tools like Resin Exposure Finder and the Validator have become standards for the Photon Classic users

Amy Liao make sure this reply get's to James Please.

***
@Group Admins & Photonsters Team;

Sen Kun, Kevin Rank , Flint Read , Toby Kirkby , Mark Wardle , 陳彦廷 , Nard Janssens , Bo Nørgaard , Ivan Antharon Antalec , César Fernández , Martin Mjöllnir Umgjer, Hans De Jong , Nikos Antonakis and many more...

what's about 4k screen for anycubic photon as upgrade :D 4K screen its will be over for form2 printer :D

and a filter to stop the smell of resin as upgrade :D

come oooon anycubic take my money and give me upgrades for my photon

You should be Thanking the Photonsters Team and the Group Admins, i'm just being a Liason for the team working on the background.

I think you need someone fluent and conversant in both Chinese and English to make sure the intended message is delivered after translation to English.

I hope the community remembers humility works both ways.

And this is why I just rolled my eyes at the fuss. Without a doubt, it should have been made, if it wasn’t, AC wouldn’t have probably realized how it could easily come across.

Amy Liao or someone to at least read major statements and give a view of how they might be perceived. I volunteer:)

What did they do or say?

They tried to remind people that installing aftermarket parts would cause customers to lose warranty. It came across as a threat of legal action. Translation between Chinese and English is not simple or literal.

check the link posted by senkun above, we kept a copy in the group open letter to anycubic

Am I correct to read into your comment that you a
think the community is not being humble. Please clarify Master

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AnycubicPhoton/permalink/1606191166192186/

Vinicius Silva they didn't open up the photon file format either. If I remember correctly you had to have a hacker team reverse engineer it and then it was posted on GitHub. Do I remember correctly?

something along the lines of “legal action” if using non-AC parts. From their perspective, “we aren’t going to fulfill warranty claims after you “re-engineer” things and then it doesn’t work and you want free new parts”. But some folks took it as “They will sue me.”...

Vinicius Silva I had to read his post a few times myself. I believe that he means Anycubic have done the right thing and apologised and admitted that the legal action letter was totally wrong. In return we should accept that apology and return to being friends.

lol stop, this isn’t the only AC community. And you aren’t the only behavior to base a comment on.

Jonathan Weinberg Its easy to say the wrong thing, my question serves to clarify that you should always thrive for clarity and specifics in your answers Master. And besides you are answering about other ACs communities on a private AC community, not sp ecifying it is not about this one in particular!

Same mistake AC did, by posting a note on a Resin printer Community when the big issues where about "apparently" a FDM Printer

If one leaves too much up to interpretation people will find their own meanings in what you say
;)

Jonathan Weinberg which other community made a fuss about the legal threat letter?

Jay Starling Yes correct we did reverse the code, and also supported Anycubic by flagging the Intelectual Property infringement commited by Formware, a paid software, when they implemented our export research into a unauthorized export to photon function on their software.

Anycubic stood by our side then, and for that reason earned our trust enough for the group admins to add them to the admins too.

Vinicius Silva but the Photon File format is not Anycubic's IP. It is just a CCDP file renamed. So that is the IP of ChiTu, correct?

Jay Starling Still both Anycubic and CBD supported us against back then. The truth is that they should have kept the new Photon-S with backwards compatibility. Epax and Orbeat for example can print .photon files and use the tools made available by the community that way

Vinicius Silva I thought the file format couldn't handle AA? Or is that the firmware didn't recognize it?

AA ??

Alcoholics Anonymous?

Anti-aliasing, lol

Ryan Cook got any beer? ;)

I wish, lol!

Jay Starling .Photon cannot handle AA, but you don't need AA for most things, Photon S must support Photon Files ideally, since all the competition can, and makes no sense their own machines do not support their own files.

By the way AA will be good f or particular applications and comes at a cost of slicing time.

PhotonS new file dosen't come with AA either, at least not the version that comes out from Chitubox

AA is working on the Photon by using the EPAX firmware, but we do not recoment this mod. The epax firmware not only adds AA but also runs the old .photon file format

Vinicius Silva , the letter from Anycubic states "There will be anti-aliasing (AA) function on both standard PHOTON and the new PHOTON-S by firmware upgrade. We are doing the final test and will release it really soon in weeks"
So you are right, it cannot handle AA but according to Anycubic themselves state new firmware will be able to handle this.

Rob Jansen there will probably be a new file format that will.

Thank you for owning up
To the mistake! We are both your customers and advocates, help us help you instead of fighting us!

This is great
If you could solve the problem of expansion of the final outcome
I have to reduce any thing i print to a less size 98.5% to get the right size
Hope you can solve this

That's down to the resin and the size you print at. Accuracy will be better on larger items.

voxel ops does this. all you guys have to ask is for anycubic and chitubox to implement Ivan Antharon Antalec work onto their slicers. that or open up a api so we can contribute with community plugins

we have video how to set it up, don't we?

Ali Al-Qrimli here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGO8q70zm8

Ivan Antharon Antalec if more people use it then we will be encoraged to make a better integrated tool for the users ;)

A very positive step forward. Thanks Anycubic!

Who can explain the storie?

It is explained in the previous comments

Thanks a lot for the help
I will try and let you know

This sure seems like a lot of fuss over nothing. Seriously, who was upset by this. They recommended using official parts and if you didn’t and tried to cause harm to their reputation based on your unofficial mods, they MAY pursue legal action....like any company would. So tinker away but they won’t support you and if you screw up, don’t trash talk Anycubic who asked you not to do that. Where’s the issue here?

It's a lot more complex than that which is why they apologised. I'm not going through it again but the previous 100 comments will shed light on it

Orwin much much more than that. We ARE the company. To shove such a cold statement into our mouths after releasing the photon successor no one asked for, is suicide. We don’t get paid for the work we do, and quite frankly we’re a good reason people even buy the machines.

Worst of all they milled the blue off the build platform. Unforgiveable.

Nick Williams guess I didn’t see it that way. I don’t really care about the S either so instead of making 100 posts bitching that it’s plastic, I just don’t buy it which is more effective in my opinion. If they release something better, great. If not, my machine is working fine.

Orwin , really it’s not the plastic. That’s the point a lot of onlookers make.

It’s the lack of AA.
The lack of larger build area.
The lack of features that we’ve asked for as a community.

Plastic is the least of my concern. Yea, you’re right. Don’t buy it. Or, make a fuss and let them see that we want something different and WILL pay for it.

Nick Williams I can cope with the plastic but not the lack of blue. This is a sop for the sand people.

Nick Williams I would think all the posts asking about bigger machines and kickstarters for larger, self leveling etc machines does that just fine. If they don’t get the point, fuck em. It’s not like we’re tied down to them for any reason.

Orwin SantaCruz oh lord. Self leveling. In my day you had to LEVEL BY HAND. BOTH WAYS. IN THE FUCKING SNOW

Alex YOUR GOD HAS FORSAKEN YOU.

Orwin SantaCruz Some people have put hundreds of hours into writing software to improve the photon, been unpaid support for it. The new model doesn't support any of the test files and exposure finders etc that have been created nor the validator. Those people feel invested and let down.

Nick Williams if they got self leveling down, we’d have less than half the posts we see now! Next, they’d need to make a castable resin called “the best castable resin” so when people ask (again) we can literally send a link saying “this is the best castable resin”.

Orwin oh my god that would be hilarious. “what are the best settings?”

I need to make a image with the words “BEST SETTINGS”

Nick Williams that’s too many issues solved! What’s next, the best FEP and monoflex ratios?

Nick Williams SNOW? You don't know the meaning of SNOW!

Nick Williams this is how we deal with sand people. http://i.imgur.com/LSxG7Mg.gif

Alex Varley holy shit you are still going on about this lol, nothings changed :p

陳彦廷 hehe :)

carry on, dont mind me :)

陳彦廷 I'm on a 30 day ban from my spider profile :( But the love of blue remains!

Alex Varley I’ll grab it when I’m not on mobile, long day.

Vinicius Silva thanks a lot
But as i could understand the software does not support the anycubic photon
Any ideas on that

check pinned post on the group we saved s copy of anycubic original post on photonsters reply letter to anycubic

Can we expect official upgrades for the Photon?

So for they have said that AA will be made available on the Photon with an upcoming firmware update.

Ivan Antharon Antalec any suggestions to make the simplified 3D work with the photon?

what are you speaking about? Simplify 3D? where did that come from?

check photonsters.org and look for VoxelOps in community projects

OKAY EVERYBODY GETS A FREE PHOTON!

Vinicius Silva the video that was shared my friend

Vinicius Silva thanks
I will try

Haven't been watching posts in group for week or so... I had to check if it's April 1st after reading the pinned posted... funny.

you paying? :)

shut up and take my money

Ryan Lawecki

Great reaction to the voice of the customer! thank you!

i am truly impressed by this reaction!
now if they would sell an upgraded, guaranteed wobble free z axis and an uncoated built plate, this would really rock!

The coating has zero effect on adhesion.

WTF? AA even on the standard Photon? Is this for real? I know its HW is capable of it - every LCD can display pixels with varying intensity, but I really didn't hope for the FW upgrade...

it is real and not the way you think of it check photonsters youtube channel we posted a working demo with a epax firmware running on a photon board

Vinicius Silva Heh that's interesting. The official upgrade will use this approach?

Alex Varley bullshit! Do your homework. I have two resins here that simply don't work with a coated buildplate, confirmed by the manufacturer.

Beat Grendelmeier its not coated Master, it's anodized, and these types of hoaxes where spread by resin sellers. The real issue was non flat plates

Martin Souček for the Classic, yes, for the Photon S only god and anycubic knows, its a different board and apparently they severed relations with chitubox for the S model

Vinicius Silva : anodizing is a form of coating. it also changes the microscopic texture of the surface.
i'm sorry, but your information is wrong.

YET.. my photon has NO issues printing with the Annodized plate?????

if it were the "coating" that is causing the problem,, EVERYONE would have the problem. but as you know.. they don't.

there is nothing wrong with the coating, it works fine. thousands and thousands of people are printing just fine with annodized build plates.

i've seen what happens to unprotected bare aluminum after a long time. I definatley want mine annodized

Beat Grendelmeier Not this discussion again... lol

look on the group if you really want but i'll not go into further details, all tests showned that the anodization had nothing to do with the issues users where experiencing but in fact it was produced by a factory mishandling of the sandblaster

If the "Not Coating" anodization was the culprit all users would have failures even the ones that sanded their plate since aluminium anodizes itself as it gets older.

Sen Kun, Nick Williams

Beat hey!

This subject has been beat to death, and we finally killed it. I personally took a sanded and unsanded plate to check the porosity in the lab and there is MINIMAL difference.

The REAL problem is plates that aren’t flat. Check to see if yours is PERFECTLY flat.

Vinicius Silva Ouch, didn't know they severed relations with Chitubox. That might affect my decision on future units.

Duke O Hazards I dunno if they did, The fact is that They have a new board that is not Chitubox, a format that is not compatible with the old files and their own inhouse Slicer, so i'm basing my assumption on that

Hmm, "coated", "coating", the terminology sounds familiar and I can guess who this certain manufacturer is.

Lol maybe they should look into better formulations instead of pushing primers or instigating people to unnecessarily sand good build plates.

The only resins that need priming are speciality resins like Bluecast. And the only build plates that need sanding are warped or defective ones. Nothing to do with anodizing, and there's no such thing as coated build plates.

It's all about the formulation, and plate flatness.

i'm shure my plate was flater before i sanded it. i do however agree that the anodization together with the formulation is causing the problem, as i have resins that worked perfectly with the anodized surface.
has anyone of the people that claim it's not the anodisation printed black resins successfully, and if yes, what brands?

Beat , I’ve printed with anycubic black, monocure black, monocure clear with black pigment and most recently sparkmaker(?) LCD T and N, AND ameralabs black.

Also worth mentioning, I have a sanded plate AND a non sanded plate. Bought for this very purpose!

My credentials.

How you fix a huge fuck up and retain community support. Bought a second photon. It is mail i was about to return it the day it came in due to the response you took . Im very glad any cubic has apologized and is attempting to deal . A+ . Most usa companys should take a note of this. Thank you so much Amy Liao and Vinicius Silva why this happened . Hats of to you and anycubic . Much love

Less than an hour actually. Can you print a set of 1/700 scale generic Luftwaffe ground crew and some jerry cans?

Sen Kun Oh I did some jerrycans for 1/350 scale before; they are so tiny that don't deserve to do them at all. They can't be seen at 1/700 scale!

Haha I know. I follow your posts with interest. Was just kidding, but sooner or later one of your clients probably will ask that lol

Hey Holden8702 just messaged you through your page, keen to have some of your 1/350 stuff available as 1/300 and interested in 1/56 and 1/100

this is a chess for ants ? xD

Hah, hah! a Flea Circus!

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Yes, thanks.

Nice. As using the same resin atm will try your settings tomorrow.

These settings for Drukwege are doing awesome prints for 0.04, 0.025 and now also for 0.015 layers. Many prints done, no fails due to resin. I usually shake well and preheat the resin, printing from 20 to 30 Celsius.

I use the pigmentless Typ D, so probably a little less time will do.

Thanks.

Gergely Dömölki I haven't any experience with other than grey Druckwege Typ D, sorry.

Nice, Now said to your customer PLEASE PAINT IT with all details! kkkk

I did. My initial reply was "if you can paint them, I can print them". he said he did it later with 1/700 scale figures.

I printed a Heroforge at 40% scale (The little dot at the bottom of my photo) as well as 200%. the middle one is the original that I bought about 3 years ago from Heroforge, long before they offered STLs.