@blinky465 I am only a few days into doing printing and have seen a couple of posts by your good self. I have done a fair bit of research but only today came across the Prusa slicer you discussed with someone. I got the original photon buddy and am using the Anycubic grey resin. Yeah, I am the same I went in for the Dragon Empire which thankfully keeps growing hehe. I wanted to test a basic model first to see how it went as if they are work as well as this I imagine I would pay the extra to get them all ready supported.

@lawnor that’s right buddy it is pretty much a locked file from what I could tell at a glance but anytime you rescale and tweak you lose all the supports unless it is just to turn around its yaw. Another video I found today through blinky 465 actually was this one of a different slicer, which I like also.

I have since downloaded the required files and am going to do a test of Chitubox Vs Prusa in the next day or two. Initially, I am going for a fairly simple design. You can see a definite difference in the support coding between the two though fro these images.

Chitubox does a lot of supporting off the mini itself which makes for more clean up.

Prusa here has much less support for the base of the anvil which worries me.

Of course with both of these, you can adjust them and I can even run them through the file validator but wanted to do a straight-up test to see how they compare and if they fail.

Not sure about the different resins buddy due to not having used them and only having this up and running a few days. Mine didn’t come through with COSHH or safety data sheets so maybe from the website so you can get the info to run it through a check online. I think its mainly aimed at the disposal process.

I have printed six 25mm bases, a large rams head, a dwarf shield, a third of a dwarf (don’t ask), a large two-handed hammer, and the lion and have used a little less than a third of a 500ml bottle. So maybe 150ml hehe.

If you printed something the size of that lion every day and only had that on the plate, so a single human-size mini I would say you would be using around 30ml of resin so maybe a month. There are parts to the programs that tell you how much resin it will use and you can even put in your resins cost and it calculate how much it cost you in resin to print. The electricity you would have to do yourself.

I have been using meths to clean the plate and bath as it is cheaper and easier to get. I use IPA cleaning the model in a glass jar, I have found that I can use one of the filters that comes with the printer, to filter the IPA itself into a plastic jug and then back into the jar to get rid of the resin particles meaning unless I don’t seal the lid properly the IPA should last a good while.

These are some strong smelling chemicals though so keep that in mind.

Hope this helps buddy, I will say the supported ones are a trial and part of this months Patreon, next months may not have them until they decide if they want to provide minis with them or not.