As you may know I have Elegoo Mars 3D printer. Now that I have an Elegoo Mercury and an ultrasonic cleaner have jumped back into printing things. When I first got the printer my brother wanted a 3D model of a shotgun shell upsized. Found one online so that is what I wanted to print. The auto supports in ChiTuBox are not so great. So decided to try my hand at doing it manually. Once that was done ran it though the program Photon Validator. This finds un-supported islands so you can fix them in ChiTuBox. Did that and is it seems fined. Started to print it. When I check on it about 35% done, this is about the spot you can see the built plate. Seen that the shell was not stuck to the plate. It had failed.
On a Facebook group for awhile now have been reading that people have been using PrusaSlicer to add auto supports and then do the slicing in ChiTuBox. This Slicer is made to be used of the Prusa printers but you can set it up to be used with their resin printer. That is what you use to add the supports. Watched some video on how to and it is easy enough to setup. Gave it a go. As I am typing this the file is stuck to the build plate and looking good. Thinking I will keep using these three programs to make 3D printing so much easier. Will be back with an update once the shell is done.
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