I have an Anycubic Photon UV cure resin printer, and it is superb. I have produced a number of models of Glamorous Vickie 3. The resolution is 0.25mm, and is the minimum you'd find acceptable for a good statuette. The filament printers can't approach that resolution.

I have found a downside to my printer, though. It turns out that I am allergic to the Anycubic resin, whether cured or uncured. I am not allergic to the Monocure version of the resin, which has a different chemistry. However, the resin is softer, won't polish and is double the price..

Regards,

Richard.

Have you tried their vegetable based resin?

https://www.anycubic.com/collections/uv-resin/products/anycubic-plant-based-uv-resin

The Photon S has ventilation fans with charcoal filters. I don't smell anything when using it.

I haven't tried it. Maybe I ought to. Hopefully I won't be allergic to the stuff.

Regards,

Richard.

I have an Anycubic Photon UV cure resin printer, and it is superb. I have produced a number of models of Glamorous Vickie 3. The resolution is 0.25mm, and is the minimum you'd find acceptable for a good statuette. The filament printers can't approach that resolution.

I have found a downside to my printer, though. It turns out that I am allergic to the Anycubic resin, whether cured or uncured. I am not allergic to the Monocure version of the resin, which has a different chemistry. However, the resin is softer, won't polish and is double the price..

Regards,

Richard.

Have you tried their vegetable based resin?

https://www.anycubic.com/collections/uv-resin/products/anycubic-plant-based-uv-resin

The Photon S has ventilation fans with charcoal filters. I don't smell anything when using it.

I have an Anycubic Photon UV cure resin printer, and it is superb. I have produced a number of models of Glamorous Vickie 3. The resolution is 0.25mm, and is the minimum you'd find acceptable for a good statuette. The filament printers can't approach that resolution.

I have found a downside to my printer, though. It turns out that I am allergic to the Anycubic resin, whether cured or uncured. I am not allergic to the Monocure version of the resin, which has a different chemistry. However, the resin is softer, won't polish and is double the price..

Regards,

Richard.

Your machine will only take the Anycubic? I know there are some machines that have to scan a chip embedded in the bottle just not sure which printers and which resins. I bought the monoprice printer and use their resin which is cheaper than Anycubic.

The Photon doesn't have that sort of thing. You do have to set the resin parameters in the slicer, and that can be a matter of guesswork for the first few models if no-one else has published the parameters for that resin on the web. 

It really is a good machine, despite my problems with the resin.

Regards,

Richard.

I have an Anycubic Photon UV cure resin printer, and it is superb. I have produced a number of models of Glamorous Vickie 3. The resolution is 0.25mm, and is the minimum you'd find acceptable for a good statuette. The filament printers can't approach that resolution.

I have found a downside to my printer, though. It turns out that I am allergic to the Anycubic resin, whether cured or uncured. I am not allergic to the Monocure version of the resin, which has a different chemistry. However, the resin is softer, won't polish and is double the price..

Regards,

Richard.

Your machine will only take the Anycubic? I know there are some machines that have to scan a chip embedded in the bottle just not sure which printers and which resins. I bought the monoprice printer and use their resin which is cheaper than Anycubic.

I have an Anycubic Photon UV cure resin printer, and it is superb. I have produced a number of models of Glamorous Vickie 3. The resolution is 0.25mm, and is the minimum you'd find acceptable for a good statuette. The filament printers can't approach that resolution.

I have found a downside to my printer, though. It turns out that I am allergic to the Anycubic resin, whether cured or uncured. I am not allergic to the Monocure version of the resin, which has a different chemistry. However, the resin is softer, won't polish and is double the price..

Regards,

Richard.

zthe filament comes in a lot of colors. it is possible to use dual or even 4 extruders to print in color ... more expensive than just a single. Its a great time to learn how to paint 
I ended up using white. Grey looks pretty good too. There are products to fill in between the lines, but I use .2mm layers and its not bad. You can keep reducing the size of the layers, and it looks mighty nice, but also increases print time.
Wood filler even works, then you just sand it down, prime, and paint. Or if you just needed painted one color, same deal. The colored filament comes out nice as one color. You can get metal colors, silk looking, wood, and even marble. There is some that glows in the dark or even flexible. 
PLA is supposedly non-toxic, and is used the most, but fumes are fumes. PLA : Polylactic acid or polylactide (PLA) is a thermoplastic aliphatic polyester derived from renewable resources, such as corn starch (in the United States), tapioca roots, chips or starch (mostly in Asia), or sugarcane (in the rest of the world).  
 

From what I've seen in Youtube videos, resin sounds absolutely awful. You don't want it on your skin, you have to make sure you clean everything it touches, and you have to dispose of the cleaning solvent properly. What are the benefits of it?

It produces a very smooth print rather than the much rougher layered look produced by filament printers and almost never goes wrong in the ways filament printers do.

Also neither filament nor resin printers should be used in a poorly ventilated space. They both emit fumes that can be bad for you. I do wear gloves when pouring resin and clean up any spills but why would you leave liquid plastic on any surface?

You'll need solvent for filament or resin printing. Without using solvent a filament print has very visible layers. 

Thanks. I didn't know filament needed solvent also. Dang.

For filament you use solvent to smooth out the print or to remove supports. You can use sanding and physical removal of supports to get most of the same effects.

What about ones that do color printing? Are they any good? There's one for less than $1k, although it's a bit too small.

I know there are some FDM that dye the filament as its extruded but I've never seen or used one. I just print what I want and paint it it.

From what I've seen in Youtube videos, resin sounds absolutely awful. You don't want it on your skin, you have to make sure you clean everything it touches, and you have to dispose of the cleaning solvent properly. What are the benefits of it?

It produces a very smooth print rather than the much rougher layered look produced by filament printers and almost never goes wrong in the ways filament printers do.

Also neither filament nor resin printers should be used in a poorly ventilated space. They both emit fumes that can be bad for you. I do wear gloves when pouring resin and clean up any spills but why would you leave liquid plastic on any surface?

You'll need solvent for filament or resin printing. Without using solvent a filament print has very visible layers. 

Thanks. I didn't know filament needed solvent also. Dang.

... The cleaning solution is just isopropyl alcohol and I simply collect the used stuff in a container and dispose of it at the local recycling center hazardous waste drop-off when its full. Easy. Then again, I am a chemist and hence used to working with chemicals, so your comfort level might vary.

I find resin prints have a better resolution and overall quality when comparing printers in the same price range. resins come in many different colours and the resins from different manufacturers can usually be used on any printer.

Ciao

TD

Back in my "government" job, I was the hazmat guy and the ammo guy, but I never really felt comfortable around that stuff. I'll still keep both options open though. Thanks for the info.

From what I've seen in Youtube videos, resin sounds absolutely awful. You don't want it on your skin, you have to make sure you clean everything it touches, and you have to dispose of the cleaning solvent properly. What are the benefits of it?

It produces a very smooth print rather than the much rougher layered look produced by filament printers and almost never goes wrong in the ways filament printers do.

Also neither filament nor resin printers should be used in a poorly ventilated space. They both emit fumes that can be bad for you. I do wear gloves when pouring resin and clean up any spills but why would you leave liquid plastic on any surface?

You'll need solvent for filament or resin printing. Without using solvent a filament print has very visible layers. 

Let me direct you to this site ... https://all3dp.com/  Check reviews, etc ..plus TONS of great ideas and articles on 3D printing. 
I bought an Ender 3 in October. Initial setup a bit much ... There are some weaknesses in part quality, etc ... but, it is $200. Can print 8.5 inch pice, 9.8 inches tall. Pretty big actually. 
Print quality very decent. There are folks, once you figure out speicifcs, which you will need to do with any 3D printer, that rival resin. There is an Ender 3 Pro which makes some improvements.. I would buy that now. 
The great with this printer is that it is open source, so a lot of add ons have been created. 
https://www.creality3dofficial.com/
Do check out the reviews and stories on the link above though. There are a lot of 3D filament printers that are pretty inexpensive. 

how's the cleanu up between resin and filament?

Thanks

I have a resin that I use all the time and a filament one gathering dust. Resin is just better and easier than filament but you pay for it both in the initial cost and in the material.

If you're looking for bang for the buck filament is still the way to go. The trick is to get one with the features you'll really want. One that self levels will save a huge amount of time and effort. You want the finest nozzle yuou can get, mine is .4 mm and the difference between that and 0.5 is surprisingly noticeable. A heated plate is also a big plus.

Keep in mind whether you do resin or filament the biggest limit on what you can make is the printing dimensions. To get anything larger than an action figure you'll need to print in parts and assemble them yourself.

I primarily use mine for RPG miniatures and terrain so the size limits do not effect me very often but if you intend to print a 28mm dragon that would take a bunch of prints.

I prefer resin printers over the filament ones. Mine is an Elegoo Mars: https://www.amazon.ca/ELEGOO-Photocuring-Off-line-Printing-Size-Black/dp/B07K33P3R9

I mostly use it to print minatures for fun and games and molecular models for work.

Here is an example of a DAZ render and the corresponding 3D print.

Ciao

TD

It's still not entirely intuitive but having slogged my way through DS's interface I've slowly decyphered some of it.

Take a look at these screen grabs. In essence you need to fiddle with settings for surface & emmissive for the filament and bulb glass surfaces.

Oh, you only need to change things with the uppermost Base node, not the instances other than to hide a bulb if needed.

Just perfect! Thank you for the screenshots ;) 

It's still not entirely intuitive but having slogged my way through DS's interface I've slowly decyphered some of it.

Take a look at these screen grabs. In essence you need to fiddle with settings for surface & emmissive for the filament and bulb glass surfaces.

Oh, you only need to change things with the uppermost Base node, not the instances other than to hide a bulb if needed.

Updates will appear in the DIM "Ready to Download" column.  If you recently purchased, the update was probably already applied. If your still having the issue, perhaps get in touch with the artist directly.

Thank you for your response. I recently purchased this item and hoped that everything would work, but I also read the alternative here in the forum and I followed this and it works reasonably well. Unfortunately I cannot get the white color of the glass burning, but only the transparent glass with filament. That was enough for me to make something in my scene.

I really like this style, Skye. I was thinking that because of how you created it, we could also mix and match in some glass shaders (for example, Jen's Ornate Glass or DG's Iray Art Glass shaders) and get additional custom looks.

That you can! All the emissive comes from the filament itself. You can use whatever you'd like for the glass shaders.

SkyeLights are a set of eclectic Edison bulb props to jazz up all your renders. The set comes with drop lights in three lengths small, medium and long, preset groups in small, medium and large and four scattered groups, tight small, tight large and loose small, loose large.

The lights are set up to mimic real-world lighting and the filament glows with soft white light illumination. The color of the lights are changed by the glass materials, not the emissive and the set comes with 8 bulb shapes as well as various colors and glow settings.

Also included is a utility to allow you to remove the bulbs from the selected figure or figures to make it simpler to change them out in your scene after they have been placed.

Bloom settings are also included as a bonus.

I actually have a 3D printer but I have issues with it's DRM filament

Spending your pension having fun... good for you!

Mystarra said:

lost track of the topic 

Misty...I've lost track of life....and my big machine has been in te shop while I have been away so ryping on Kindle.  Need to get back to work here.

  Silene

workflow can get rusrty
 my big rig is always busy rendering out stock animation footage lately. fly bys of terrain.
need to learn a thing or 2 about gimbals.   
spend most of my time using a quad core refurb i bought for 200 bux for all the little experiments.

workflow like a clogged drain
roto rooter for clogs.  lol

still need to come up with a transformation graphic for the were dragons. dunno if that should be 1 word like werewollf
i like the he mann graphic, but not the she-ra, weird lol
skeletor waves his arms around like a toddler having a tantrum.
the animated star trek was very repititive with it's graphics