r/resinprinting

We’ve been in stealth mode designing resins for the past couple of years and are about to make our intro to the market.

Was pretty happy with this print.

Just kind of curious to throw out a teaser and see if it the resin community is much impressed, or what your thoughts are.

The model is finished and painted; it was a great pleasure to have made it and to see it in this final state.

Hi everyone,

I’m fairly new to resin 3D printing and I’m having a recurring problem that I can’t figure out.

I create models from photographs and print them as figurines with a base. To keep support marks to a minimum, I try to print the figurines completely upright, perpendicular to the build plate.

At first this worked surprisingly well, but my last several prints have all failed in a very similar way. The edges/corners of the base start detaching or peeling away during the print, while the rest of the print continues. I’ve attached a couple of photos showing what I mean.

I’m not sure whether the problem is caused by:

• insufficient or badly placed supports
• the orientation/model itself
• the release film (FEP/PFA)
• the LCD
• or something else in my settings

I’ve already tried several different resins and I keep getting basically the same result, so I’m starting to think the resin itself probably isn’t the main issue.

Printer: Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra

Has anyone experienced something similar? From the photos, can you tell what is most likely causing this?

Any advice on what I should check or change first would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I been having problems with my printer for a while now, but idk what is the solution, the principal problem is that no matter how i arrange the supports or the slicer configuration it fails even pre-supported stls, for a moment i even though that it was a problem of one side of the fep but it just because I change the orientation of the resin vat, y even changed stls that have worked on diferente position and it’s seems random, sometimes in the middle sometimes in the sides sometimes on the corners, I have tried re-leveling the printer, filtering the resin, changing orientation but there’s always a failure in putting pictures of some of my most resent print as well as pictures of my fep, configuration and the bed I’m using Eleego resin abs like v2 and also my setup is in a room around 20-25Celcius, it worked for a while but idk what happened

Printer: Anycubic photon mono 4 ultra

So quick context. I got the printer two weeks ago. Printed around 8 prints the first few days and everything was great. One day, i came back and noticed all the resin has leaked, and it turned out the film broke for some reason. Now to get a replacement film, the only option compatible with my printer (same size, framed film) took two weeks to arrive. So instead, i got a larger fep film, separated the frames, and cropped the new fep film and screwed it to the frame. I then ran a test print. The first few kept failing partially (like one side would print and the other wouldnt), so i thought it was a leveling issue. Kept repeatedly releveling after every failed print. I also switched the resin and tried to rule out any factors causing the failures. I eventually caved and ordered the compatible film (it was acf). Now it is mounted, and i ensured the sides were correct. Now, every time i print, i get a large rectangular base of semi-cured resin at the bottom.

I finally decided to check the exposure and i noticed that all options look the same (as shown in video). This didnt happen before, so now im worried i damaged the LCD. I hope its just the protective cover issue instead, but im not sure so i decided to post here and ask for advice.

3D printed with resin and painted by me. This was my first time adding lights to a model and turned out great I think!

He has a 27 inch wingspan and is about 20 inches tall

Roughly 40-50 hours spent painting

Sculpt is made by artist 3D-Container https://www.instagram.com/3dcontainer?igsi=MWNub2dxYXlxenhnOA==

My printer had been buried under stuff for a year or two and I finally got things moved around and back to 3d printing. The problem being I barely remember how to fix anything anymore.

I got a few prints to come out perfectly, but they were all ones I had working before I stopped printing things, and this print was meant to get me back into the swing of things fully. The more complete print came out first, and I added a few extra supports on the back hoping that would fix where it broke, but as you can see it somehow got worse.

Let me know if there is anything obvious I'm missing.

We don't make Vtuber models but when we saw this "Margaret is as beautiful as a painting" from 夢梓MunSii 工作室, we could feel how much work and passion dedicated into the creation. Every detail from the gilded frame to the tiny top-hatted companions is impossibly delicate. and it looks like a painting too. Hopefully we managed to capture that passion.

• 🎨 Designer: 夢梓MunSii 工作室
• 🖼️ Model: 瑪麗美如畫 Margaret is as Beautiful as a Painting ​ https://www.youtube.com/@瑪格麗特margaretnorth​
• 🖌️ Painted by u/tamatacraft​
• 🖨️ Printer: Phrozen Sonic Mighty 16K Revo​
• 🧪 Resin: Aqua-Vanilla 8K​

Hello everyone. I have a Heygears Reflex RS Turbo with Pulsing Module and have been having print errors with PAS10. (First prints were PAP10 with zero issues but with generated supports)

I am printing Kali from Aradia Miniatures (pre supported) and the model seems to be falling off of the supports. Also the supports seem softer than usual compared to my earlier prints.

I have stirred the resin in the vat for a few minutes, ran the vat cleaning after every failure and now I'm reslicing Kali again for a third try. (Failed three times now)

I thought Heygears resin and profiles were almost worry free? My next idea was to increase the exposure times, but I would have to switch to a manual configuration rather curated print profiles from Heygears.

Is this the time to switch to custom settings? I got this printer because I was under the impression it was kinda like what Bambulabs is to FDM printing.

Or is there anything else I could do?

Thank you for reading

Test print of Toga and Uraraka as Sailor Scouts (My Hero Academia) by Azerama Studio. Printed on an Elegoo Saturn 3 using gray Anycubic ABS-Like Pro 2 resin, and finished with Tamiya primer.

Another batch of Death Spiral aircraft fresh out of the resin wash and coming off the build plates.
It’s pretty satisfying watching these go from digital models to actual 1/144 game pieces. These will be cleaned up, cured, and then it’s off to the paint table.
The Death Spiral air forces keep growing.

Finally decided to use my printer last night. Started my print, waited for it to show that it was making progress, went to bed.

When I woke up, THAT is all there was on my print. No idea how it happened. If I had to guess, none of the layers actually built and it just cured the same spot over and over? Idk.

My bigger worry is that my FEP (or worse the entire VAT) is completely ruined. Ive tried cleaning this out with alcohol and a mf cloth and nothing's working. The self cleaning for the tank also won't dislodge it.

I really hope I havent already broke this thing. I bought my Saturn 4 Ultra a few months back but due to life responsibilities this was my first attempt at a print after the rook that came on the thumb drive. Could've at least had a successful print before I horribly screwed something up 🫣

Update: I'm just dumb. I'm going to leave this up in the hopes that eventually someone else will be this silly and not know why.

I was trying to pull from the wrong area. Yes it was that simple. For some reason I got it into my head that the grey square around the blotch of caked on resin was part of the FEP. No, that's the film that was left behind by the auto-clean of the vat that I ran a week ago that I just... forgot was not part of the FEP. So I'm sitting here trying to pull resin off of resin for like an hour.

As a note to any future newcomers like myself, I made this entire problem worse by trying to run the auto-clean again. Do not do this. It makes the problem worse. I got it off with a bath of warm water and some 99 IPA.

And as someone so elequently put it: learn your machine so you can know what to do. I watched a couple generalized tutorials a couple months back. I should have sought out videos specifically related to the machine I have.

I've been using my Photon M7 Pro for a couple years now, but I've had my first catastrophic failure. Resin leaked from the vat, through the screen protector, and onto the screen and surrounding areas. In addition, the black tape sealing the top surface is peeling up near the screen.

I've tried softening the cured resin with IPA and scraping but haven't had much success removing it. In fact, one area chipped during the scraping process.

At this point, is it best to replace the entire screen? If so, are there recommendations for sourcing one? Photons site shows the as out of stock.

This is my first foray into resin printing and I'm looking for advice. I recently picked up these machines along with a number of accessories for almost nothing. Under $50USD for the printer, wash&cure, a second FEP+vat, a bottle of resin, and some accessories like scraper and funnel. The lady selling them said it was a gift for her son from a few years back that he only used twice then it sat in her basement for years.

Clearly by the pictures they are pretty messed up, more so than I realized from the listing or when I picked them up. I'm hoping to still make use of them as they seem perfectly fine on the digital end. I guess I'm mostly just looking for confirmation that my current plan sounds good and there isn't something massively wrong I'm missing.

-The wash tub had a ton of hidden rust I didn't notice until moving the agitator around. seems like a lost cause to me. Not too mad about that since I can hand wash or buy a replacement tub pretty cheap. -My main concern is the screen. It works just fine but has a few scratches and some resin dried on it. I'm only planning to print small accessories for some wargaming minis, so I can just use the side that isn't scratched, but any advice on the best way to clean the resin off would be appreciated. Currently trying with Isopropyl with minimal success, I'm hesitant to scrape it even with a plastic scraper. -the build plate is incredibly scuffed (the scraper she gave me was a random very chipped one with bent corners so I assume that was the cause there). I've heard that some level of roughing up the build plate can actually give you better adhesion but this seems a bit much, currently looking for a magnetic build plate I can just put over it after smoothing off any protrusions. -the second vat+FEP looks perfectly unused. Any tips on cleaning the pictured one would be nice, but I'm fine writing it off.

Anything else I should be wary of or tips for salvaging this? Thanks in advance.

Sorry for my english, it's not my first language

Context:

- I'm living in the south of Spain and the sun and hot are very intense here.

- Mars Ultra 5 and Mercury Plus 2.0

I'm new into resin printing, I did two printing rounds in the basement with a fan pointing to the small window but the smell is not nice, my garden smells and the ventilatiom is not enough as it has big walls, if I keep my entry house open the smells joins the house even after some hour after the printing ended.

On the other hand I was thinking of using the laundry room for printing as it's a separate room from the rest of the house, though I'm concerned regarding the temperature as it has direct sun during the day, I was thinking of buying a roller blind or courtains for it trying to cover the sun, but I dont know if this is ideal.

I got so anxious regaring this ventilation problem that I was concidering even returning the priting machine, though this art is very enjoyable.