Comment on returning to SLA-resin printing: Which printer, curing station & resin?

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EmilieEvans@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Well, any printer will do that if you calibrate it well enough.

Pain point in the past where the build platform. Prints frequently failed because they would lift from the aluminum plate.

After a lot of trouble, I switched to a flexible buildplate which first was blasted with course “sand” followed by fine glass beans. flexplate so I can remove the print. The course surface makes the print stick but not stick too well. Would like this time to avoid all of this troubleshooting.

Also considered buying one of those printers that work upside down by projecting the light onto the surface and the print is lowered into the resin vat.

“Good” is fairly ambiguous here because what would a “good” slicer look like to you?

Good workflow (UI design), decent automatic support generation, good tool for manually brushing/configuring support material and ideally an elephant foot compensation setting/calibration for the first layer which has a significantly longer exposure time.

Support generation and being able to manually edit those pushed me toward PrusaSlicer.

The VAT tilt is a bit dangerous because of a potential resin leak of the release film, leaking into your printer’s internals

How big of an issue is that? Are the upgrades to seal the printer?

Back in the day, it was more or less a total economic loss for those cheap printers: LCD damaged, UV-array damaged and a complete mess within that was hard to clean.

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