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You need to export the file with supports and it will create a new stl file. Open that in slicer of choice.

i can only export as a *.sl1 file, which chitubox can't open.

Export as stl with supports

Charles Lease under file there is a export with supports choice

export with supports is grayed out. and no supports show on the model. but pad/supports show on the right...

I believe once you have supports showing the choice will be available.

When in Prusaslicer, select what you want to Support, then on the left at the bottom you can select supports.
You can auto support or add manually. remember to select apply if you do manually.

Then the supports should be visible, you can choose file -> export -> export plate with support.

Charles Lease there are no supports added yet.

that's what i was missing, it was processing and i dind't realize it. thanks!

the supports are not yet on your model

this communit is the best! it was slicing to create supports and i was impatient/didn't see the processing bar. took it only like 5s...guess too much coffee this morning...

Xi-Sheng Luo lol thanks, i was sending the pic for the poster.

Photocentric printers use different wavelength resin

Ethan Brown I have seen one chart for same brand clear listing higher exposure times. Like 100 base and 30+ build. Imagine that would shorten my screen life.

I bought some a few years ago and had a lot of trouble with it. I finally got it working using very high cure times. Like 60-70 second base and 40-50 second layer times. I never bought it again but once I got it printing it made decent quality models and they did have good "flex".

yeah it will take very long times to cure it on a photon. And will burn your lcd out faster

Hmmm I wonder if it would be worth mixing a little bit of this (say 10%) with elegoo or anycubic to make that a bit more impact resistant....

Sirayatech isn't easily available for me it seems, as is monocure... I get tons of Photocentric hits though.

Xi-Sheng Luo I did that after about half my bottle was gone. I started adding about 10% to my regular resin. It didnt impact the regular resin cure times that I recall but it did make those prints more resistant to breaking.

have the exact same resin. did not have time to try it yet.

Ethan Brown Im going to have to get another printer it seems lol. Its an interesting material. Smokey quarts like clear and flexibility is in between skate board wheel and gummy bear. Thanks for the info Ethan.

you can buy other resins that are the same property and will print on photon... probably cheaper than photocentric too

I have some pour off that I do intend as mixed. Siraya hard clear blue and some Siraya standard grey as well as some Photocentric hard white. The hard white prints just fine.

Ethan Brown I will be looking for those. Ty for the heads up ,')

Foy Justice mine was gray. If it matters.

phrozen and Siraya both have these resins

TJ Robichaux Perhaps. Lighter colours and shades do print less cure time I believe im understanding.

Yusuf M. Saatci It seems doable but at risk of screen life. As reading in other replies use it as an additive in easier to print resins on photon or other lcd type printers.

what does it do? Drop off the plate turn sideways and crash the screen?

The worst resin.

Ahaha I paid a fortune on that one!

Yusuf M. Saatci should ask before you spend the money, it's unusable its so bad

Sounds like it would work with high exposure times. But thats going to burn out the screen quickly.

I see....

It's a trap.

David Hargrove It is very thick and tacky. Would probably trap mice lol

Are you running heater on your printer. Flex resins usually need at least 25C

Alexander Bayerdorffer Am not no. Lil chilly here in Mn. Do try to run a space heater in the room. I have tried setting the bottle in warm water before printing as well. Didnt do any temp checking/not very scientific I know. Think proper temp would remedy the long exposure times?

No exposure times are exposure times that doesn't change. but you are better off running like a tenacious or flex 100 as they have known values needed etc. Not to mention way less time required. People above mentioned the different wavelegth so that's really gonna be bugger to try and over come

I have never heard a good word about this resin from someone who used it.

can this be mixed with normal resin to make a semi-flexable print?

Brklyn Brklyn It would not be fully cured, but then a again we cure our prints afterwards. Ill be testing it soon

What’s your bottom time set to? Maybe raise the print with supports, set a nice high bottom time, and let the rest of it cure normally?

Jarrod Richards Did try that. Supports printed fair. But no object. Maybe a tad more exposure time for the object. Believe I did object at 18.

Foy Justice can’t hurt, up it to 20 see what it does lol

Monocure states that their flex 100 can be mixed with other resins to reduce brittleness and their flex takes considerably longer to print due to longer exposure times. Haven't tried it yet - still waiting for it to arrive.

Have a print I will be pulling off in the next hour. Its a mix of the flexible mentioned and the Siraya tech hard blue. 6 Layer base at 45s, object at 16s.

Cant show the actual print cause its on lock down. How ever it did print and cure good. The supports in the vid are fully cured. I would say it has a tad more flex. Base 6 layers at 45, object at 16, 0.05 layer height, resin temp at 72f. 5-10% photocentric transparent black flexible resin 90-95% clear blue hard siraya tech. Ill print a showable print now. Ty for all the info group. Hope this contributes.

Photocentric resin is for daylight printers, doesn’t cure with uv light

It was jelly of the build plate. After the Uv it hardened to what is shown. What is meant by daylight? Uv light is what?

What you want is Flex100, and used as an additive to your regular resin.

Yes

No. Photon and photon s use different lcds. You can however use the x1 screen. Which is around $20

Hugh Jeriolas no they don't I'm printing right now

I have the new photon which uses the same LCD

Paul Oliveira well I guess I am wrong. I know that a photon screen doesn’t work on an S. Figured it would be that way vice versa

Maybe the older photon models

Fair enough. Glad you got it working

Measure them and order replacements, they're standard metric sizes. Probably M3

Aren't there spear screws in the box?

didn't find any.

https://www.amazon.com/....../dp/B07MJ3CF1D/ref=sr_1_1......

Al Espina they are standard metric countersink screws. Measure the diameter, I think it's 3 or 4 mm - so it is M3 or M4 and then measure the length, I think it's 8 mm or something so it's... M3x8 or M4x8 or whatever the length is. I hope you get it ?

Ouch, that's expensive. The newer plastic Elegoo vats work great in the Photon, come in a two-pack, and you can still replace the FEP on these ones (unlike the first ones they released).

https://www.amazon.com/ELEGOO-Plastic....../dp/B08345Q9BP

Rick Hanson when I bought my elegoo resin tanks back in November they were 4 tanks for $30 (around that).

3D Printer with 4... $29.99
Qty: 1
Sold By: ELEGOO

Apparently just copying my old order page cuts out some details. But it was 4 tanks for $30.

Are those 1/64 scale wheels? I don't know the answer to your question. I print wheels like that with no issues.

My light off delay is 5 seconds, not sure if that's the problem.

Looks possibly like frame shear.

Combination of the tight space between & less fep tension

So I find this sort of issue can happen if you edit the stl in one program, save it off as an stl and then import into another program for slicing. It's not an always thing, only occasional. I'd try re-slicing

2 things to check:

There is a firmware that can cause this. Not every time tho. Search in here for it and there should be the firmware number listed that causes it.

Also ive had a similar issue with a broken model. Ie when i use chitu to do anything it breaks the mesh and needs to be repaired after.

yes, this issue are running my resin out

thanks, finally i know what this is called, found the solution

and the firmware

tried this using chitu slicer, shearing still happen

thanks, firmware is the issue

so guys after searching about this shearing problem, i've found the problem was the firmware. the standard firmware that comes with photon is glitchy, use firmware v4.2.18
here s the link for downloading the firmware https://github.com/....../anycubi....../tree/master/firmware

and dont use the newest v4.2.19, it also got same glitch

If you didn't add vent and drain holes, it's from the uncured resin inside the model off gassing and making the model crack from the pressure.

If it's vented properly, delamination is usually a sign of under exposure.

Hi! It looks like they might be caused by suction pressure.

If you print an enclosed space in a print, the suction acts a lot like a suction cup, causing a lot of pressure on the sides around enclosed space.

You need to add a hole to relieved pressure or not print hollowed..

I get this on hollowed prints that I either didn’t clean properly or my drain holes were too small. Unset resin expanding at a different rate?

I think a mix of wall thickness and no holes for uncurled resin to escape.

Hollow and no vent holes?

resin inside. Don't even bother to hollow something that small, not worth it..

Its unsupported. thats why. You need to anchor the end

I can see that now, thanks for pointing out! Having said that, the first print (first photo) did not have this unsupported part, just the beams which were all connected to itself and was still pulled apart?

Yes. All resins yellow when post cured. Some more than others

Nipuna Gunarathne thank you .I thought it might dull a bit, just not this much ?

It's less visible with dark colors