I have been using the Form 3+ for a few months now and am loving the results, but I am always looking for ways to fine-tune my prints and push the quality even further. I have mostly been printing with Grey Resin, and while the results are good, I have noticed a few minor imperfections here and there, especially on more complex geometries.
I am curious to hear from others who have been using the Form 3+ for a while- what tips or tricks have you found that really make a difference in print quality? Whether it’s specific settings tweaks, resin recommendations, or even post-processing techniques, I am all ears! Also, has anyone had experience with custom supports? I’m wondering if manually adjusting them can help with those tricky spots. When I was searching about this, I came across these resources/articles Form 3 - Large Print - Quality IssuesSplunk Analytics For Hadoop, however, they are quite useful, but I wanted to learn more from community.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and learning from your experiences!
Appreciate you taking the time to post! I’m looking forward to seeing what our awesome community recommends!
In the meantime do you have a quick picture or example of the imperfections you’ve noticed for our reference? That might help point me or others in the right direction in terms of tips & tricks to offer!
The biggest support-related issues I’ve run into have been distortion around the touchpoints, usually on a model that was heavy/large/less-than-ideally supported. Sometimes this has also been linked with older tanks where the film was starting to stretch, especially when cough certain users cough kept printing the same monolithic models repeatedly in the same spot on the build platform. Better to core out a model and allow internal supports (with proper drainage hole!) than to strain your tank’s film.
I would suggest moving from Grey/White/Black to Grey Pro, I’ve found it both less brittle and very good for fine features. Clear gets nice detail and is still pretty unbeatable at…being clear.
The most useful advice I’ve received from Support on surface quality:
auto-orient won’t always be perfect, try it a few times and see if it improves
for manual orientation, try to have planes rotated from the machine axes in 2 or 3 directions rather than just on 1 axis
