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Apr 2017

I have bought a new form2 3D printer, and printing well at every location on the platform, but when I chaged the resin to black, something wrong with the pringting process,

1. parts can’t be adhere to the middle of platform even if I have changed the Z fine tuning to -0.8mm, nothing help.

2. I changed to another resin tank which was used to print with tough resin, it’s a new tank and used for tough resin once. the print issue is still, nothing attached to the middle of platform, and also the quality is not good enough, here are some pictures for your reference, anyone can help with this?

Hi Winston,

First did you check the resin version ? Do you have both the correct resin selected in preform and on the printer ?

Do you clean the platform between each print with isopropanol ?

I’ve experienced this with a faulted resin tank. But if you changed it that’s not it i think

How about the surface of your platform. Is it clean in the middle or damaged ?

Best,

Nemo

I have the same issue on a 1+, just used the scraper to scratch the area which kept dropping the model. Fixed it. Make sure to flatten the scratched after. No deep scratches, just surface.

Take a look at the mirrors and make sure they are not dirty or cloudy.

Have you contacted Form 2 support yet? I purchased a brand new Form 2 3 months ago and its already going back for an optical issue. To be honest I think the Form 2 based on all I’ve read on the forums is ridden with many issues but because Formlabs has such good marketing and has pretty much the only consumer SLA with such a polished look and semi reputation these units keep selling as if they will make perfect prototyping units when in actuality you need to be prepared to be a Formlabs engineer because you will be spending a lot of time repairing this unit. I would see if you could extend your warranty also as there are other complaints like soft aluminum screws in the carriage for the resin tank that will eventually strip. etc. Remember Formlabs also produced the Form 1 a unit that is virtually unusable by those who invested in the companies initial Kickstarter so this means they are used to dealing with very pissed off people and have methods in place which probably means no amount of it being their issue will persuade them to fix it for free after the warranty expires.

19 days later

Bad Laser Diode was the fault in my printer.