Tools/3D Printing/Anycubic Photon

Preliminary Instructions

• Download this config bundle into PrusaSlicer: https://gist.github.com/MaxBareiss/1bfb39dae05b8fe69336d817be4b7891
• Pick the printer "Anycubic Photon", the SLA Material "Elegoo Gray", and the SLA print settings "0.025 Normal" in that order.
• Add your part
• Slice the part
• Export as SL1
• Download this: https://github.com/fookatchu/SL1toPhoton/releases/tag/v0.1.3
• Use the SL1toPhoton tool to convert the SL1 file into a .photon file
• Copy to the USB flash drive that lives on the printer. Do not handle the flash drive with gloves.
• Turn on the printer without gloves.
• Put on gloves, and do everything after this with gloves.
• Shake the resin bottle. I've had the cap break, so keep a hand over the cap.
• Pour resin into the resin vat. The surface should be completely covered in resin, and the small lip where the vat starts to taper out should no longer be visible. If you see clear liquid, you didn't shake the resin enough. Stir the resin in the vat with the plastic scraper.
• Press the "print" button on the screen, find your file, and start the print.
• Wait for the print to finish. If you're going to go do something else (recommended), remove the gloves gingerly and try to save them for when you come back.
• Remove the bed from the machine with the large knob.
• Scrape the part off the bed. Use the plastic scraper. Try to avoid using metal tools.
• Wipe off the bed with a paper towel. No cured or uncured resin should be present. Put the bed back in the machine.
• Remove the supports by clipping them with cutters or rip them from the part.
• Verify there are no holes in your gloves.
• Dunk the part in the ethanol bath and swish it around for 20-30 seconds.
• Take the part out and let it dry. Since it is ethanol this should go quickly. Your gloves will also be clean of resin.
• Part is done. Post-curing should not be necessary, but if you had stuff that was hard to clean set the part in the sun for a little while.