Build Your Own SLA/SLS

Tons of new feature, bugs fixes and improvement based on the feedback of this great community!



Please report any problems to this thread.

-Steve

Downloaded, will try it out tonight. Thanks for all your hard work Steve.

Clinton

Hi Steve,

This is looking good.
I did have a slight issue with the configured displays. the program had chosen the correct display by default and it was in the Configured Displays, but when I started the print it printed to the primary display instead. Removing the configured display and adding it back resolved this. You might have to check how the defaults are working.
Other then that, this seems awesome!

Thanks,
Andrew.

Steve

I have a request for an added setting to "Configure Slicing Profile" > "Options" for an adjustable delay between the start of the vat tilt and the raising of the build plate:

Currently generated GCODE (example):

;<Slice> 0
;<Delay> 5000
;<Slice> Blank
;********** Lift Sequence ********
G1 X4.0 Z4.0 F150.0
G1 X-4.0 Z-3.95 F100.0
;<Delay> 5500
;********** Lift Sequence **********


Proposed GCODE something like:

;<Slice> 0
;<Delay> 5000
;<Slice> Blank
;********** Lift Sequence ********
;begin vat tilt, give it a couple of second to release the part before raising the build plate (adjustable delay between vat tilt and raising build plate)
G1 X4.0 F150.0
;<Delay> 2000
;lift build plate after part release
G1 Z4.0 F150.0
;lift the vat, drop the build plate
G1 X-4.0 Z-3.95 F100.0
;<Delay> 7500
;********** Lift Sequence **********

The reason I am requesting this is that I have found that raising the the build plate and tilting the vat at the same time tends to cancel out the "peeling" effect of the vats tilt (for a time the vat and the build plate are pulling away from each other in or nearly in paralle so that initially there is no "peeling" effect. I have been using custom arduino software to control my printer that adds a vat tilt/buildplate lift delay but I would like to use controller software like GRBL etc. which it think is a better overall solution (I could use all of the machine control features in CW etc.) but I have zero part separation problems using my current arduino software.

A feedrate adjustment for the vat tilt would also be nice.

Excellent software.

HTL

I think I see how to do what I need from looking at the variables in "GCode" > "Lift".
Are there other variables that are useable in the GCode Section in addition to what I see in "Lift"?

also, is ;<Delay> %d1000 the correct format for creating a delay

Thanks

HTL