Reply To: Printing one of the Titan Forge Patreon minis with supports already done!

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I wouldn’t recommend whacking the table while it’s printing, but it’ll survive it, sure. You can even mix your resin mid-print (I don’t bother as a bit of “marbling” doesn’t matter when you’re spray-priming it after printing anyway). The print bed is plunged into the tank and pressed against the FEP/screen. In between layers the print bed is raised (to allow fresh resin to flow under it) then pressed down again. I usually wait until it’s just gone down, then I know I’ve got about ten seconds of swishing about that won’t affect anything.

You can even pause a print halfway through if you really like. This will raise the print out of the vat (it’s a good way of checking the progress of a print if you’re not sure if it’s worked or not). But you almost always end up with a horizontal print line where it resumes from.

Resin printing is perfect for cack-handed morons; much more forgiving than FDM!