I feel like ím giving up
Hello! I hope you are all doing well. I'm coming to you out of desperation and looking for help. I've been trying to learn on my own and fix errors based on online tutorials and forums, but I haven't been able to find a solution to my problem, and I am very close to giving up.
A while ago, I bought a used Anycubic Photon Mono M5s Pro. It was well-maintained and at a good price. The first prints I made were with its standard resin, and they came out well for my first try. Later, I learned how to improve them, and honestly, the learning curve didn't seem too bad. Some time later, I bought Anycubic ABS-like V3 resin for higher strength (at a customer's request), and since then, I haven't been able to get a single successful print. The only thing I can print (sometimes) is the RERF. I have tweaked and tried every single parameter, and I just can't find a solution. The bottom layers print fine on the build plate, but everything else sticks to the ACF, and after a few layers, the printer throws the "zero release force" error (print detection failure). The build plate was concave, so I took it to a machine shop to flatten it. That allowed me to print a small Benchy and another calibration box RERF. However, when I tried to print larger pieces again after calibrating, the exact same thing happened: bottom layers on the build plate, and the rest on the ACF. I've tryed to change the burn-in-layers exposure, normal exposure, lift speed, retract speed, light off delay, nothing seems to help
I'm desperate. I hope someone knows what's going on and can help me, please.
P.S. In the pictures where the build plate still has the black texture, you can see the warping issue it had and the raft compressed from leveling it without the VAT. After taking it to the machine shop, I releveled it, but this time with the VAT, which gave me the best leveling to date and allowed me to print a supported file that I couldn't before (the Benchy). However, larger pieces still fail. I thought it was a leveling issue. Also, I have a protective film installed for the LCD and replaced the ACF (correctly oriented), I've included my settings and the recomended settings for the resin.