I’ve been using the Creality Mage Pro for a while now and have had really varied results. Sometimes the prints look absolutely magical and other times down right dog. The bulk of my designs are geometric with a lot of flat surfaces for engineering or PoC purposes (not creative stuff like figurines etc.). I understand this is more suited to FDM, but this is the boat I’m in now.
The biggest issue I have is when printing flat objects directly on the print plate without supports. For some reason, something is adding additional layers similar to thin skid / raft / base to the bottom. This happens on ALL prints that are laid flat on the build plate. It looks like about 0.5mm extra which is just enough to mess up holes and screw up geometry. Adding supports would be the simple answer here, but supported prints for flat objects are not even in the same ball park when it comes to accuracy and finish quality compared to the stuff straight on the build plate. Not to mention the fact that it adds a great deal of print time and wastes a lot of resin in the process. So I’d really like to get the flat printing stuff sorted out - it just makes sense for the bulk of the designs.
I am using “HalotBox_V4.6.0.3899 Release_macx” and the latest firmware on the printer. I have experimented with different versions of both the software and the firmware, all with same results. I use the option to “lay the part flat” and skip the suport step completely and go straight to slicing and printing. I can see when it goes through the animation of the print that the “extra stuff” is not there, so it is being added somewhere in the middle.
I had difficulty with Network Printing on Chitubox, so I did not spend a great deal of time trying to see what diferences it may produce.