Resin 3D Printing for LESS than $200? Anycubic Photon Zero and Wash & Cure!

next to me in these two boxes are what I hope to be an incredibly enticing budget-friendly combo for you inside is the any cubic photon 0 and next to at the any cubic wash and cure station a $2.99 budget value for resin printing and finishing and if this performs like I hope it does it's gonna change the game and speaking of games ha and just like that the photon 0 and the any cubic wash and cure station are out of the box who knew that playing video games as a child would come in so handy well let's dive right into this right here on 3d printing nerd welcome back before we dive in let's go over the statistics real quick and I took a picture on my phone so I didn't get anything wrong it is msla 405 nanometers wavelength the XY resolution is super tiny but it's a 480p screen the screen that it's using is actually smaller than my iPhone Tenace max it's most likely similar to like an iPhone 5se or or an equivalent Android device layer resolution 0.01 2.2 printing speed 30 millimeters per hour it takes 405 nanometer resin which is most of these msla machines around this time printing volume is 97 millimeters by 54 millimeters by 150 millimeters tall it's not the largest print area but it seems like if this does exactly what it's supposed to do this is an incredibly budget-friendly budget-friendly first resin machine for many out there well now that we got that out of the way it came with this this is a first start assembly instructions it tells us what we need to do I came with this that's we're getting wax out of your ears this is a USB USB drive of undetermined size there's your pancake flipper and this is a resin safety package you've got some gloves some allen keys all that sort of stuff here is the build platform for the any cubic photons zero oh and it's about that big and this is the resin tank right here ooh this is this is kinda nice here zoom in there it actually shows how much resin is in the tank and it gives you a max line and it's on both sides that's super handy okay great great design decision any cubic honestly according to the assembly instructions the first thing you need to do is level the build plate so this involves plugging in the unit turning it on raising C 10 millimeters loosening the screws putting that on bringing it down onto a piece of paper pushing down with your fingers and then tightening that's all it involves so it looks like the print is gonna be on this USB stick what we need to do is grab some of the resin shake it up you should shake your resin enough to where your Apple watch thinks it's exercise honestly all right safety is important obviously and I think it's important to remember that you're playing with something that could cause sensitivity in your system the more you touch it I guess if I breathe too much my glasses fog up but just always remember when you're using a resin based 3d printer you need to take safety and into into consideration which means nitrile gloves masks or something to guard against getting resin into your mouth or nose and also a well-ventilated area we have windows here we can open up and so you can get the ventilation plus we've got a filtration system we can put next to it there we go it is it is blue I do I do detect an odor from this resin and you will detect an odor from you will detect an odor from most any resin that you use just know that you don't want to breathe that all day the resin is in the USB stick is in my hand let's put that in and let's get that test print going oh it's descending into the resin according to the information on the front this default file that we're using to test with the first printing with is 1303 layers and it take four hours and 20 minutes to complete I'm not gonna stand here and stare at it for 4 hours and 20 minutes don't worry I'm gonna go get some other stuff done but we'll see you back once this is done and then if this printed successfully we've got a couple other prints that we're gonna try see you in a bit day two we're back it's the next day and we can tell that the print is finished and you know looking at it it looks really good it looks like it's appropriately good like it's supposed to look this way thank you thank you that is fantastic you can see at the bottom there's a little drip and I don't think that's solidified resin that's just a drip but here I'm gonna take this off we can see that it is using the the blue resin I am getting a resin odor and this resin odor was not present at all when the cover was on and I thought that was interesting because this cover doesn't have any sort of gasket to seal it in it's making good contact or there's some sort of circulation that's keeping the odor from getting out I don't know but I'm gonna put this back on because I don't want to Huff resin now though we have a resin model and it's it's done printing but what we need to do is get this we're gonna get this going this is the wash and cure station so this is a container that you fill with isopropyl alcohol and you take the build plate in the model dip it inside it swirls it around then it's washed and then you remove it put it on a spinning turntable it activates the UV lights and then it cures it so let's just get into it over here so this is the washing cure station so it's got the amber shield and that's because this does have UV lights in it this just comes right out Wow it's got some weight to it this is good so it's got a little motor right here and there's a platform that goes on it so it'll spin the model as it is curing it but this also I believe has a magnet in it which attaches or magnetized holds on to whatever there's a there's a spare that goes in here and this thing on the outside spins and so when we put it there the magnet holds on to it it spins it I know there's a proper term for it and if you know it let me know in the comments inside we have styrofoam look at that it's a little yes oh and inside here we go there it is so this it's got some magnets on the other side and those will interface with the magnets over there and it'll be able to spin without having a hole through the container essentially this container holds a max of 3,500 milliliters of isopropyl alcohol and this this right here this is fantastic and I hope more manufacturers are able to do this this is a lid with a gasket and clamps which means that your isopropyl alcohol can exist in a sealed container ready for use you don't have to empty it out or pour it out into something you don't have to put tape or cover it it won't evaporates out it's covered and sealed that is fantastic tight seal it's a really good seal so there's the platform it's just a piece of acrylic and it's covered in the and the brown the brown covering the brown paper so this is how this mechanism works I believe this can slide right there and imagine the bucket in there first of all I just want to make sure so this would sit there this can hang out here and then this will spin in the bucket circulating the isopropyl alcohol or what they allow is the build plate itself being attached via this and then you have a height adjustment so if you have a short model or give a tall model you have a way of putting it in the bucket and not having to fill this with isopropyl alcohol the entire way if you don't have to I think we're ready so I'm gonna get on my gloves and we're gonna do this this is the wham-bam slap mat it's a silicone mat made for people who like to do a lot of resin 3d printing silicone is great because whatever you get on it you can just sit out in the Sun if you have Sun we don't have that here in Seattle but then it'll cure it and then once cured wrote once resin is cured I can't talk with this on it's just I'm sorry once resin is cured then it becomes acceptable to throw in the trash so you know the little resin bits thanks again for wham-bam for sending that over I think four steps are fill this with isopropyl alcohol okay it's gonna be more than that that's gonna be more than that anyone now yeah that's splashing in it here we go there's kind of a little a little detent and outline here that you can set this in so stays in place I'm gonna wash this on the build plate so then I will use this to then lower the build plate down into the ice protocol what I like about this model as a resin print is there are minimal amounts of points of contact and so from this flat section here it's building up and creating this this wonderful thing so if I do this right does it it's supposed to hook on okay hold on you know it pays to read the directions and I was wrong so what I was looking at here was a different build plate you can see that the top of the build plate is angled just a bit and there is a red knob and that's a different build plate than what's on this one I think that's for another any cubic resin-based machine so what we can do is slide this on just like that and then once it's in the isopropyl alcohol I think it's gonna be heavy enough to not fall off again we also have that basket and so we can take this off of the build plate to put it in the basket and cure it but I think this should work so let's give it a try that's on there pretty good you know all things considered you can already see all the excess stuff from coming off it can you really oh yeah Oh awesome look at that that is so cool oh it's on it's on it defaults to cure I need to hit that to change it to wash and then I've got start/stop and time and I'm gonna wash it for six minutes look at that Wow let's spinning quite quick this does have a rubber gasket and I'm not getting any isopropyl alcohol odors which is fantastic as well it looks like that's staying on so we won't have to use the basket at least for this one I'm gonna call this good I guess we'll see you in five and a half minutes eventually and a beep and a beep and a beep three beams okay we're done it was interesting because while it was actually doing the washing the the blades slow down and stopped and I was like well and Sean said that's not three minutes or not six minutes and then they start going the other way I think that's a great move being able to swish around the isopropyl alcohol this way and then swishing it around this way this is done so we can remove the top and take a look and see one of the things to remember this build plate wasn't securely attached but it held on just fine the details on that are pretty sharp and what's kind of nice the build plate is nice and cleaned off as well so one of the things the instruction booklet does say is after isopropyl alcohol no try shake it off just a little bit here it says to air-dry it one of the things to remember too because the build plate was submerged in the isopropyl alcohol when you are drying it off I don't know if the paper towel is the right way to do it cuz it's gonna leave little firs oops but at the same time you want to make sure that I all of it is removed from here because if you try to do a print and that resident gonna stick to it if there's still isopropyl alcohol on there now we could put this on this has slots that line up with these holes okay we'll replace the lid because UV light is gonna be shining so it's on the wash I'm gonna hit this button to change it to cure I'll just leave it at six minutes because why not and then I'm gonna hit start this is exciting it's the first print see you in five and a half minutes lay down with those beeps it looks like the curing stage is done I'm gonna remove the hood and there it is that is a cured model okay the model is not tacky it's not sticky so the curing process for this worked just fine this model is easily cured though because there isn't a lot of resin here and there's plenty of open space for the UV light to get through other models might take more six minute turns it's really up to the model and the geometry and what it looks like but for this one it is cured and it looks nearly perfect I don't know if you can see right there you can see right there there's a thin kind of a thin wall thin line that didn't fill out all the way I know this is just the demo model and I've got other ones to print and so what am I do is print this one again I might I might also try different resin I don't know I'm still somewhat new to resin 3d printing compared to the standard filament based 3d printing but also it's got some text right there on the bottom I don't know if you can see that can you see that yeah it says 35 I believe that's really there's millimeter no it's micrometers right is it millimeters oh it is millimeters well now that we know this works and this works we've got some other models to print and I'm excited to show you let's print all the things they thought there you are welcome back we took this home for the weekend bye well we mean me and in my garage I completed a number of prints just to get an idea of how this machine would perform and how this machine would perform and here's what we've got one of the things I wanted to solve right off the bat was the issue with the test model that we printed and I think it was that one right there it's when this one side just didn't cure just didn't cure so when I took it home I did it again I printed out the test print just to see if something was going wrong and sure enough it was so it wasn't curing right along that side I was fearing that something was wrong with the machine so what I did is I took off the tank and I looked at the UV light and it was shining great there were no dark spots anywhere so then what I did is well I did something I went into photon studio I think it's what it's called it's the software for slicing these models and in photon studio I brought in this model and I said fit to maximum and it was like 87 point to 1% scale to fit maximum for this this build area or build volume I thought well maybe that's it maybe maybe this was just just right out where to go just just on the edge of where that UV light shines so it wasn't able to cure it so then what I did is I shrink it down to 85% just to ensure and I printed it and it looks like this and you can tell it completed perfectly and it looks exactly like what it should look like and this is a very very solid print so I was really really happy with these results because you meant that this machine was functioning as it should and it was time to print some stuff so first what I did is I printed myself a little myself this is the mini job I waxed err and I printed it really small in this machine just to get an idea but the tiny little details that they could try to replicate there's a giant hole in the top of Nigel's head and that was used as a way of draining out any of the resin that collected inside because within Foton studio help I'm saying the name right you can hallo models and provide internal supports and drill holes for resin drainage just like I did in the table of Mitchell's head and mini Joel looks great if I do say so myself you can see the detail in the mouth the glasses the ears and that crooked little smile that many Joel likes to likes to give off this is a good model I like this and this this is awesome next what I wanted to try was a model by my buddy foetus and he created this this is lucio from overwatch or a rendition of Lucio from overwatch this model had some problems and I didn't get a chance to retry it this model had supports which I was able to trim away quite easily but if you see up here in the front it kind of had a delamination right here which raised this up and normally there's a little space right here into the back there are words this model also had to be shrunken down just a bit in order to fit the build X&Y of this machine normally a figure will fit in a machine like this just fine scaled up but with this giant round piece at the bottom it wasn't going to fit that build area of X Y so that's why it's this size else I would have printed this larger because I really like this character I don't know why this failed I was printing in my garage and according to the thermometer and maintained a temperature between 55 Fahrenheit and 60 Fahrenheit I believe that's enough for resin printing and I'm not worried I didn't worry about warming up any of the resin so if you have any ideas of why something like this would have failed I'd love to hear about it but other than that look at it just look at it it's wonderful I love that the the organic shape of the face and the head and the arms is contrasting with the very very neat digital angular parts of the legs I love that this is a good model I might explore printing this one larger cuz that would be a lot of fun next I went with powder man does Batman hey man I'm Potter man hi to me spider-man this is a spider and bust by David Hurst min it's ooh it's an O with umlauts and then but it goes by Eastman on my mini Factory man this is a bust by him it looks good spider-man though it came out great but one of the things I want to address is the holes that you can drill with the slicing software when I made this model Hollow I said the shell should be three millimeters thick that's great nice three millimeter shell should be nice and durable then I said drill holes and I accidentally drilled the holes two millimeters deep which meant there was a one millimeter just wall of hardened resin that kept those holes from emptying the resin that was on the inside and I was like well shoot that's no good I went through the washing and curing process and I noticed that it started leaking out just a little bit and there was this giant collection of a white powder kind of kind of right through here I've since cleaned it up but it was a half resin half isopropyl alcohol solution slowly leaking out being UV cured by the curing station I thought that was interesting you can tell but these are the holes right here when you're doing resin printing the holes that you put in the model it's really an art form because you need to reduce the suction force of the fep sheet and you need to allow resin to be able to drain through the model so it doesn't just collect on the inside or you can just print it solid honestly usually you don't want to print something solid in resin because of the cost but the size that this offers means that even solid resin prints they feel good nice and weighty and they're not too expensive just because they're so small and this spider-man came out great I really like this the details in the costume and in the surrounding it's a trouble some bad guys were to feed it and this is spider-man's posed kind of kind of like that it looks it looks fantastic and I really like this but this model kind of showcases some of the limitations of the photon 0 with a 480p screen it means that certain details just aren't going to come through and you're going to have a stair-stepping effect because even though your layers can be really tiny on Z X and Y is still limited by the size of the screen and of the size of the pixels on the screen and I don't know if we can see it what's really great is in fact I might be able to a little piece of sandpaper here so it's right there right there you can kind of see it oh yeah for sure okay but resin is fantastic when it comes to sanding and now you can see it's lessened and if you do a little bit more sanding more than the 5 seconds that I spent that model then becomes clear and if you're gonna do a lot of sanding make sure you're wearing out a respirator just so you don't breathe in the dust honestly at this point I've shown you a few of the models that we were able to print again I took this home for the weekend and this is a weekend's worth of printing and I I think it did a really good job we were able to find out that the default print or the example print on the SD card had an issue and when we brought the STL into there slicing software andrey sliced it it came out just fine we got to learn about how the slicing software is able to hollow models and drill holes in the models to be able to drain out the resin we learned that there can be issues but thankfully there are communities around to help you troubleshoot and there are wonderful designers that make models that are perfect for resin printing so that leaves me with the ultimate question is would I recommend something like this and it's a little different because we have two machines here I know that one's a resin printer and one is a washing and curing station first I want to get something out of the way originally at the top of the episode I said it was 300 bucks for this as a bundle because I had old information and unfortunately that's not true right now this machine to any cubic is 169 dollars and right now at any cubic this machine is 179 dollars oh but wait this is sold out at any cubic as of the time of filming this let's say you want this right now amazon.com at least here in the US has you for two hundred and thirteen dollars and Amazon has this one for two hundred and fifteen dollars both are available via prime if you just can't wait these are really awesome machines this one is really good I like this one of the things that made it cool though is that because it's so small it's easy to use and prints take no time whatsoever and because it's using msla technology whether you have a tiny little thing on the build plate or the build plate is full of stuff it's gonna take the same amount of time to print it's the Z height that dictates your printing time this is target I would imagine towards first-time users or first-time resin users or someone who's experienced but just want something fast cheap quick easy something that they can get awesome little prints out the door no problem if you wanted something to augment your cosplay and you wanted to print little bits that would fit on your outfit something like this is perfect because you could print out the bits you could easily sand them you could then cast them in another material and have yourself all sorts of adornments on your cosplay outfit I think that's great but again smaller size you just have to take that into consideration you know to say I'm excited about this machine right here really doesn't do it justice and I want to say that this is a game-changer I think that having something inexpensive that makes the resin printing and finishing process easier is nearly worth its weight in gold it's no secret that I have a lot of different machines and uh I don't like resin printing I just don't like it it's messy it's frustrating it takes a lot of time the resin is expensive and I just I just don't like it this made me like it again this machine got me excited and interested because I could just take it from here and put it in here and it would be all done yes there are other curing stations and washing stations available and I'm not taking away from their Wonder but at the same time this is less than $200 it comes with a sealed container normally what you're going to do when you want to wash and cure a resin print is you have to dedicate a container to it and then you have to go find a UV light source sure if you're in Southern California or you're along the earth's equator that's not a problem but here in Seattle that's a little bit of an issue and if the Sun comes out it could also be raining at the same time which will really make you sad when you're trying to cure your resin models so something like this comes along makes it a peck and I don't have to worry about storing the the container of resin somewhere I don't have to go find some sort of sealed container to hold it it comes with it I know I keep talking about this and I don't care because I love this so much this feels like like younger Joel wouldn't care about this but adult Joel really really gets this and I really really enjoy a good sealed container apparently full of isopropyl alcohol this machine did exactly what it was supposed to do it's very easy to use it it made resin printing exciting for me again and the best part out of all of this any cubic didn't make this sized for this it made larger and so any of their other machines that they have should be able to take advantage of this machine if you have yourself another smaller resin-based 3d printer and you've been looking for a washing and curing solution I can highly recommend this and I'm really excited about it if you can't tell so that's it really I think we have a neat offering from any cubic it's a little small and it's targeted towards a beginner audience and it it's fun to use and I think it has use and it's fun to use it I think I think I need to make sure I make that clear this though this changes the game it makes resin printing fun for me and I'm excited as this that something like this exists so that if it will change the game for you you now have an option there we go I think that's it I think that's it I think we've got a lot of cool stuff on her hands links will be down in the description and if you made it this far you're awesome don't forget to hug each other more I love you all and as always high-five you

Channel: 3D Printing Nerd

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Id: TdzvQFuMy8s

Length: 27min 50sec (1670 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 15 2020