Resin 3D Print

It took two hours to print this inch high 3D figure on the resin printer at Quelab on November 30, 2023:

Inch high resin 3D print

The one inch resin print

on top of the 7.5 inch PLA print

 

Important DETAILS

• PRINTER: Phrozen Sonic Mini Desktop 3D Printer
• HELP CENTER for the Phrozen Sonic Mini
• Resin profiles

• RESIN:  LYN Cast DLP 3D Printer Photopolymer Resin
• SLICER: CHITUBOX
• AI generator for 3D files:  CSM
• 3D FILE: "ropesculpture.GLB"  (3.81 MB)
• GLB to STL converter online

Supplies

• Clean with 90% isopropyl alcohol
• General cleaning with Sprayway glass cleaner
• Clean FEP with microfibers, so as not to scratch it

We probably should have printed with ventilation as the fumes from the resin are probably not good for humans, even though there isn't a hard toxic smell.

3D OBJECT

I had generated the 3D file in CSM, from one of my AI drawings (based on my drawing style):

3D AI organic figures -- and 3D clay printmaking at UNM

DOWNLOAD: "ropesculpture.GLB"  (3.81 MB)

The 3D file was generated from the 2D image below:

Rope Sculpture -- Part 1

Leonardo.AI

I uploaded this 2D image, generated with AI,

to make the 3D image with AI

The actual 3D print was tiny,

one inch high

This tiny print

would easily fit on one of the individual keys

on the keyboard

THE PROCESS

We printed with a Phrozen Sonic Mini Desktop 3D Printer -- a resin printer -- using LYN Cast DLP 3D Printer Photopolymer Resin that we bought from Amazon -- slicing the 3D file with CHITUBOX:

Phronzen Sonic Mini

Desktop 3D Printer

 

First cleaning the "FEP" 

with a microfiber cloth

so as not to scratch it

Our FEP did have some scratches

"Focusing" the resin printer means moving the top down so that you can't move a 3x5 card underneath it:

"Focusing" or leveling the 3D printer

so that a 3x5 card cannot move under the top

Filling the FEP with resin

LYN Cast DLP 3D Printer Photopolymer Resin

Sticker on the back of the resin bottle

FEP screwed down

Sliced with CHITUBOX software

I am not entirely sure if the settings below are what we used:

We used the settings

for the Sonic Mini model

START

Note that the print is on the top

hanging upside down

The print hanging upside down

Clean up tray

Cleaning the print with 90% isopropyl alcohol

Lastly the print has to be cured with UV light:

Curing with UV light

on a turning disk

Sprayway Ammonia Free glass cleaner

works well for general cleaning

and is cheaper than 90% isopropyl alcohol

FASTER FASTER

Apparently there are faster resin 3D printers:

FAST & Smart 12K Resin 3D Printing

 -- Anycubic Photon Mono M5s

• Another review of the fast AnyCube Photon Mono M5s resin printer

PLA 3D Print

UPDATE (December 12, 2023):  Adam made me a 7.5 inch PLA print, of the same 3D figure, on his Bambu 3D printer:

The 7.5 inch PLA print,

next to the one inch resin 3D print

The most amazing thing is that Adam printed remotely, uploading the file on his laptop at Quelab in Albuquerque, and printing the physical piece at his home in Rio Rancho:

The 3D file in the slicer software

on Adam's laptop

The printer's webcam streamed the progress, so that we could watch it printing on Adam's laptop in Albuquerque.  It took several hours to print (but less than 8 hours I believe):

Watching the printing live

from the streaming webcam of the Bambu 3D printer

Video of the progress

of the Bambu 3D printer

• The Voron 2.4 R2 (PRO) CoreXY 3D Printer Kit is supposed to print really fast (see video).  If we had a fast 3D printer we could immediately print out any 3D image we generated with AI.

• The ini file for the Prusa 3D printer at Quelab