Calibration plate preview wrong?

achingbrain · 2017-06-12 18:11:01

I've used the following settings for the calibration plate:

Calibration plate settings

But the layer preview shows this sort of thing:

layer 1

layer 2

I'd kind of expected to see little dots like in the changelog - any ideas what am I doing wrong? Am I doing anything wrong?

My projector settings are:

settings

I am running build 1447.

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by achingbrain (2017-06-12 18:17:24)

Shahin · 2017-06-12 18:36:29

It is correct view based on your settings

achingbrain · 2017-06-12 19:07:01

Hi Shahin, thanks for the speedy reply.

Do my settings look reasonable?

Just seems odd that there are only 12 layers in the calibration plate and the last 6 are completely black. Or is the preview not showing me the whole layer?

Shahin · 2017-06-12 19:46:14

It is normal, nanodlp jumps backward and forward among these layers.

jaidek · 2017-06-13 12:30:42

I had a similar issue, it turned out that the calibration cubes I was printing were too large and too many to fit on my build plate. So I had to change the pillar width and sheer. Hope this helps!

achingbrain · 2017-06-16 21:07:06

Ah, right, makes more sense now thanks! It seems the blank layers in the plate mentioned above were caused by the pillars being outside of the printable area - clearly my settings were wrong.

I've tweaked the pillar width & sheer values and now the plate looks like it might actually print something useful:

In case anyone else has a similar problem in the future, these are the settings that produced the above plate:

nanoDLP

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