This is a first because it seems that building had stopped at a certain level except for one piece which was bad also. My guess it is this part that cause the problem or starts the problem but I don’t know why.
After cleaning the tank I saw a raised spot on the film. I guess that means it is damaged. Whether it is the cause or the result of the print I’m not sure. (There wasn’t a spot before I poured the resin for print. BTW, for this built I used 50% old resin and 50% fresh resin.
Is the tray damaged? The reason for the damage and how to avoid this in future? Can I use the tray again?
2.Can I reuse the resin that remained in the tank? I usually use a drain filter to filter the resin for any large lumps. But this time a huge area of the models was not built, what happened to the resin that should have made the model? Were they not cured by the laser at all or semi cured into micro lumps so that the resin is probably not save to use any more?
Try printing one thing in stead of 15 (or so)… See what happens. Now, every failure is a wast of a lot of resin. And do you have another printscreen of the angles of all the models? It’s hard to see if they are positioned correctly. Furthermore, have you gone through the layers, ensuring that support points are placed correctly? otherwise that might be another reason some parts could fail.
The last print can happen because off lack of supports. And a cleaning of the mirrors can always help if you haven’t done that since you received the printer as the printer tends to be pretty dusty at arrival (which is obviously an SLA printers’ worst nightmare.
Though, yes, open a support ticket. You don’t want to clean the galvo’s without Formlabs permission.
I’ve been printing with the printer for 2 weeks now. All the individual pieces have been printed successfully. I just collect them together to print in one go
I now found that it has nothing to do with anything except the printer. to my dismay. I tried for the third time using my final new ink tank and a new platform and 100% new resin. Then I noticed that the laser light during printing only limited it’s travel around the faulty area but not the whole platform.
This is the result:
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