Lately I have come to experience these print failures that I cannot explain and I haven’t got a clue to what is causing them.
The story starts 4 prints back when I wanted to print some smaller parts with Grey 4 resin on 25 micron layer height. I’ve supported them with a 0.3 mm point size and density of 1.00. I know these settings are quite low but for the last 2 years of often printing I haven’t had a problem with weak supports. Anyways my print failed and I had no firm idea why. So I set out to print the objects again this time with denser supports and same touchpoint size. But a similar outcome was produced. I then gave up on printing anything that day so I just quit. Note that I checked the resin between prints and I did’t really need any filtering since the parts were so small that no apparent polimerized resin was suspended in the liquid. The next day I needed to print 4 dental models and 4 acompaniying model dies. I chose my usual settings with 50 micron layer height and the same bold support settings that are working for me. I really wasn’t looking forward to the result since I feared it would be a failed print and waist of resin. But to my supprise the models came out great without any issues. I tought that maybe that print was a weird issue that has passed but unfortunately that was not the case. The next print I had was in Castable Wax resin on 25 microns, 6 small dental copings (comparable to 5x5x5 mm hollow box with open top to anyone not in dental printing). The print failed miserably and similarly to the 25 micron prints in Grey. So I thought I have narrowed the issue to the 25 micron setting, altough I have no logical explenation how that would affect the print. So I filtered the resin since it had visible clumps and tried again with a 50 micron setting. The print failed and now I am stuck, bagning my head against the wall now knowing what am I doing worng. Bellow are the pictures of the failed print. I have not saved the PreForm files otherwise I would upload them here. I can although create a new file to show you what it is supposed to look like, but I think it is pretty visible where it failed.
I have no idea why the on furhtest back got that far allong and the others couldn’t even start. I also have no idea why some supports are attached on and some aren’t on the furthest object.
These are not air bubbles but clumps of polimerized resin in the liquid and on the FEP film.
