ANYCUBIC Photon Mono 2 Resin 3D Printer with 6.6'' 4K + Monochrome Screen, Upgraded LighTurbo Matrix, Enlarge Print Volume 6.49'' x 5.62'' x 3.5''

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Below are the best and ideal values for each setting but you should do testing with your printer or resin as well. This setting generally doesn’t change too much across 3D printers, so you can keep within a certain range which will be stated in the section below. What is Z-Lift Height in Resin 3D Printing? The Photon Mono 4K has both high power for fast printing and low power for longer printer life. The resin printer supports 30-100% UV power settings and can be adapted to resin printing with different UV energy requirements to meet your personalised printing needs.

For the Anycubic Photon, I saw ranges between 4 – 10x the normal exposure time for the bottom exposure times, so you can take a rough average of 7x the normal exposure time. Personally, we’re big fans of ChiTuBox, but if you’re a beginner you may appreciate how easy Photon Workshop makes things. Changes in the structure or design of the model can harm the model’s strength and integrity, and it can also result in a print model with visible surface lines as well. Although there are some 3D printing users that like to go up to 10 bottom layers, 4 to 8 is the ideal count for most of the 3D printers including Photon.

In terms of the ChiTuBox algorithm specifically, they have a priority sequence which starts with the image blur, to the gray level, down to anti-aliasing.

In fast printing mode, it is recommended to set the layer height to 0.1mm, and the other settings are:

FDM 3D Printers

There are quite a few lifting and speed settings with resin 3D printing, but a good value is something that is fairly slow. People tend to go with a lifting speed of 1-3mm/s or 60-180mm/min. A really well done support set up for your model has a pretty big impact on print orientation. I know PrusaSlicer tends to use supports all the way across the bottom of resin 3D prints, so the 45° angle isn’t necessary for success.

Anti-Aliasing is a setting which reduces the “steps” in the layers of your 3D prints, known as the staircase effect. What it does is smooth the edges and corners of an object, which effectively reduces precise details, but makes certain models look better.Many people in the user submitted Anycubic Photon Mono X settings (4K monochrome screen) use values as low as 0.5 seconds, with an average of around 1 second. The bottom layer count is simply the number of first layers that you will expose UV light on for the set bottom exposure time. These layers ensure strong adhesion to the build plate and help in building a successful 3D model.

The Photon Mono 2 uses a 6.6-inch monochrome 4K+ LCD screen with a resolution of 4096 x 2560 pixels. With better resolution, even highly detailed prints can become the norm! Many of the settings were gathered by using user submitted results from the Anycubic Photon Resin Settings& Anycubic Photon Mono X Resin Settings (Google Docs). Best Layer Heights for Resin 3D PrintingThe FDM 3D printers (the ones that use filament) are not easy to put together and even those that do come with most parts pre-attached, still require that you carefully follow the instructions and dedicate at least a couple of hours for the assembly. And then there’s the lengthy calibration. The SLA 3D printers are already pretty much fully assembled and everything is underneath a case, so you don’t have to deal with wires or rods. In the case of the Anycubic Photon Mono 4K, the installation process is incredibly simple and the first step is to power it on: attach the cord to the rear port and press the Power switch. The display should light up and show the Print, System, Tools options. Honestly, there is not an ideal value of anti-aliasing when it comes to resin 3D printing. The settings come with different levels such as 2, 4, and 8. You can set any of these anti-aliasing levels for your resin 3D print according to the corners’ aliasing effect. You’ll have to decide whether those extra millimeters have enough merit to sway your purchasing decision, but the Elegoo Mars 3 takes the lead here.