nanoDLP

Hi,

It is a very useful feature.
I have couple of suggestion to extend the feature.

• Supports both red and white drawing (to be compatible with uv projectors)

• In addition to 5cm and 10cm dial. Lets put some common object sizes such as credit card, half dollar coin. It would be helpful to check sizes with plate full of resin.

• Unfortunately as I know, in the most of cases platforms are bigger than printable area. But they could be a awesome measurement tool as there no needs to worry about resin. Maybe put laser marks on platform. 5cm and 10cm line which should be matched with mark on platform.

• Definable outline rectangle

I have not tried focus projector using dot instead of lines (or small empty circles). Maybe it could be easier to user. It just a guess.
http://www.aaarpinball.com/Miscellaneous/p1080.htm

yes @ Adam,

I understand your method, and it is certainly effective and precise, you have to consider one thing: I build a printer "top down" in which, there is not a constant printing table level, because it changes ,depending of the  tank contained resin level, so I need a quick method of calibration at  beginning of each print.
In the bottom up, the operation you advice, is  functional , because it will be done only  one time at all ,

Cya

p.s. my "baby"...

Last edited by mandreas (2016-04-09 19:30:59)

I hate to bring up old threads, but has there been any developments on setting proper scale for top down printers? I am looking for something similar to how CW handles it. I measure the projected area, input the dimensions, print a 20mm cube then measure. If the scale is off, I just input the prints measurements and it calculates the proper scale. This has been the one thing that has been keeping me from fully pursuing nanoDLP as my main printing software.

Thanks!

Thanks mandreas! That is some very helpful information and will be giving it a try this week on my top down. Can you talk more about the pan that you developed?

Wow, that looks great! What micron and about how many milliseconds per layer? I'm still in the tweaking phase of my top down, getting some really nice prints, just some are a bit rough on the undersides so I am trying to find that curing sweet spot.

As for the pan, I am still not sure I understand what it does exactly. Is it just used to hold your resin?

Thanks again!

Thanks mandreas! That is ingenious! Is it using FEP film or just glass? Last question, are you using dynamic curing (3,5) on the normal layer?

Thanks again for all the help!

Very cool and thanks for the information. Does it have a peeling motion, or just works from the normal plate movement? I might have to give this a try during my rebuild.