Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Taller Object Printed But Vivid Marker Slows Curing
I managed to make a taller object. Kinda. I've been drawing short segments rather than dots because it is significantly faster, but it does not seem to be accurate enough for fine work. Maybe with a finer probe?
Anyway, it looked plausible from the top view. This is 400μm diameter and allegedly 125μm tall. The purple colour is because I put Vivid marker under the resin reservoir:
Slightly blobby, but has obviously slumped when viewed from the side:
The lowest part on the perimeter looks to be about 2/3 the way up, so my guess is I got to 90-100μm before it all flopped over. That's not too bad. The wall of the cylinder is double thickness BTW Will try again with clear resin and probably stop at 100μm so we have something cool to look at.
Also tried printing two 400μm squares with a 100μm double hinge between them. Haven't poked at it yet. Note that the left square is filled, the right one is hollow:
Looks to be a little uneven but I don't think I was running the probe out of resin enough before removing it and things got messy.
