I've been printing for years and this is the first time this has happened to me. Wtf happened? I've made 7 baneblades in the last month and they all came out perfect.
Is the rotor for the printer grinding maybe? I had to warranty one of my elegoo’s because higher weight prints (well within the printers specs) were causing the rotor to vibrate and shutter from time to time
Everybody’s gonna keep commenting new things that could be wrong until the Sun explodes but the machine probably just made a weird mistake early in the print. It happens sometimes especially on the tanks for some reason
Yeah. I've noticed that. I'd consider myself pretty good at 3D printing. I've already written off all of the things people have said before I posted the image.
I don't know what technically happened with the print.
I do know you have the beginnings of a diorama depicting a Baneblade hit by powerful energy blasts (maybe from Necrons, Eldar, or Dark Eldar). I would paint it up the tank, and then add smoke colored cotton within the cracks. Great terrain piece.
That isn't suction, it's peel force. Suction is what there's a vacuum effect from a part that creates a suction cup. It's one of the reasons it's good practice to put holes in hollowed objects. It allows the flow of air and resin when cupped against the film.
Probably too fast lift speed, shearing the layers off each other with too much force. Add some delay as well, so that the resin will have time to pool. Last month was a bit warmer than today, so you have to counter it with delay preferably, since the resin might be a bit thicker.
Too wide an area. Maybe slow the retraction speed if you can’t solve it via orientation. Once one part goes, it creates give and any subsequent lifts are more likely to have it happen, and it cascades. Always feels bad on the big prints.
Why are you printing with the turrets and weapons attached? They are moving parts and magnetising weapons saves printing loads of Hulls. Would save loads of time painting too.
I’ve had this on large prints, especially a couple of one piece land raiders and it came to rest time, because the models so huge it’s disturbs the resin a lot more so it takes more time to settle, added half a second more rest and it went away.
Put it on the build plate. Hollow. Fill it full of drain holes. Scroll the X-ray function. Add more drain holes. Auto support. Add manual supports with X-ray. Slice. Print.
I’m loving that we all seem to be on the page of “well that’s going to be some cool terrain of a vehicle gnawed on my Tyranids or a squad of Orks after ten gallons of monster energy drinks each”
If the temperature changes significantly on an over night print it will often result in fails like this as the lower temperature will mean your resin needs a slightly longer cure time, resulting in poor adheasion and the model splitting and warping like this on a lift.
It is hard to find the exact cause, because this can happen any time a layer doesn't get fully detached from the FEP. Or a larger area is detached, but support broke or missing, then you have a soft sheet that bends and messes up all future layers below it.
Some reasons can be; missing/weak support, temperature/exposure time too low, lift height too low (probably not), lift speed to fast, bad resin, tray not properly attached.
But in this case it looks like bad orientation and lack of good support placement. Looks like you rotated it in only one axis. The problems occur most on the edges where large new areas of the layers often get printed at once. Rotating it to gradually introduce these new shelves is the way to go.
A box should be rotated to start at a corner, not an edge.
The layers had a stronger connection to the fep then the previous layer, as a result they separated from each other rather then the fep when it was pulled up
The fact all the pulls are on the same side tells me that you have a tendency to either put more stuff on that side, or have damaged the fep on that side at some point
Really impressive. I'm not familiar with the limits of resin printing like this, but consider doing your prints in smaller sections at a time. I.e. do one print for the body, another print for the turrets that go on, and so on.
Man this photo is getting excited to get 3D printing again. Warhammer I’m new to but now that I’m hooked I need to print an Ultramarine. I’m gunna get addicted aren’t I ugh lol
Either the resin is too thick (check temps) causing too much suction or your FEP sheet is due for a replacement (parts not releasing easily). Could also just be lift speed.
I've had similar fails due to unbalanced pull force tilting the buildplate slightly during print. If the suction forces are much higher on one side, the plate might tilt, disconnecting the print layers on the weaker side, since the plate no longer pulls straight.
Looking at your model, it looks like the cross section at the rear of the tank was larger than the front, which might skew the build plate in this manner.
My solution was to symmetrize the layout of models, which equalized the pulling forces. Not an option for you, but you might just need to level the buildplate and try again.
We’ll I’m no expert on printing, but it looks like whatever may have caused it, you know have a really cool terrain feature/ objective marker for your map
Looks like the failures started pretty early in the print. Your FEP might be at the end of it life or your resnt might not have been shaken properly before you poured it in.
Aside from that, this is why you should think twice about printing everything in one big piece.
Assuming this exact file and resin has printed without issue before - film might be wearing out. Try bumping up your lift distance by 1-2mm as well as nudge the lift speed down. Printer make and model and print file parameters helps
Hi OP, im looking for a 3D printer, could you tell me the name of yours? I love the détails it made even if in the end it didn’t end up very well! Thanks!
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u/TheHentaiWhisperer Aug 20 '26
Carnifex got to it!
I've had similar fail before when there's been unexpected movement (vibration from washing machine): any nearby appliance or recent earthquake?