My form1+ has recently arrived and I’m having a few troubles which I presume are completely on my side due to the lack of knowledge about supports and positioning.
This is how the part looks on preform:
The part is hollowed, and has a drain hole. It came out alright except for a small section.
I’m assuming that a lack of proper support on the area is responsible but maybe there’s something else I’m missing. I looked at the part and internal pressure shouldn’t be an issue. Maybe the position wasn’t optimal either.
Is there any advice you could give me?
Thanks in advance.
First off, the drain hole in the top of the head is unnecessary. That hole does not exist until the very last layers of the print. The hollow in the shoulders is the ‘drain hole’ here, so internal pressure is not the issue.
How thin are the walls? Is there any supports inside the head? Is it possible to upload the .form file that we can take a look?
Thank you for providing good pictures right off the bat
I think you have two things going on, both previously mentioned. 2mm walls may be too thin, and so few supports isn’t helping matters. Depending on how much time you have, and how much resin you feel like wasting, you could do one change at a time, and have a deterministic fix.
Me, I’d attack both possibilities at once, see what happens.
I’d also do a quick check of the big mirror for dust. Rigorous hygiene avoids bad surprises.
Now, its plausible that there is dust or something on your mirrors, but this might just be caused by a lack of supports. When I auto generated using your orientation, it provided significantly more points:
This is probably overkill, but certainly better than not printing.
I noticed it looks like you’ve got your part oriented with the smallest supports on the hinge side of the printer. If you reverse that so that the tallest supports are on the hinge side I think you’ll get better results as well.
