Build Your Own SLA/SLS

So after seeing Finhead's flex bottom vat, I decided to try my hand at making my own. :D http://i58.tinypic.com/29p9rif.jpg http://i59.tinypic.com/2dl8b3c.jpg The rectangle parts are laser cut, while the vat walls were saw cut and routed to make sure they'd bond well. The teflon is clamped between t...

That exposure testing mode sounds interesting, I'll have to play around with v28, thanks!

Is there a reason you need to slice the images to files? Because if you don't *need* to export them, then slicing is instant.

You'll want to export to Subdirectory, which just creates a folder in whatever folder the model you loaded is in. The folder is named <your model name>.slice, and will contain the generated gcode file and a bajillion pngs. Even doing that, I had trouble running CW on a netbook, as sometimes usage wo...

Nice work! How do you tension the sheet of FEP?

Looks good! I've been playing around with a similar design, but so far I've just been using adhesive instead of a clamp.

I had this problem when I was running CW on my old netbook, and I did the same exact thing with adding a half second delay! The problem went away completely when I switched to a more powerful computer. You wouldn't think that CW would be that resource intensive, but maybe it isn't releasing the memo...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned B9Creator's B9R-Red. It's marketed specifically for casting, after all. http://b9creator.com/product/b9r-1-red- ... g-2-2-lbs/

Can the Gcode from a slice be modified once created? It does seem a little odd that we can delete code from CW but not add/modify it. Fortunately, you can always open the generated Gcode file in notepad/whatever, change whatever you want, hit save, and then back in CW hit "load gcode" to ...

Haven't a clue, sorry. My own personal experience is only with bottom up...I was just theorizing about top down.