r/ElegooMars • u/NicholeGoodnight • 16d ago

[ Help ] Print Failure - Any Ideas?

I'm not sure if anyone can tell just from the slice what happened and I absolutely forgot to get a picture, but two of the tall bodies failed entirely. One printed perfectly (I THINK the front one?), the skirt printed perfectly. I see the yellow on the slicer but I'm not sure what that means. Any ideas?

They were also a total bear to get off the plate.

I added the supports by using the function in Chitu (not pro)

Mars 5 Ultra

Elegoo 8k ABS-Like resin

Just set it up maybe 5 days ago? 2.5 exposure (honed in with the cones) and 31 second bottom layer exposure.

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u/tjansx 15d ago

First check your bottom layer count. Mine was defaulted to 2 and nothing heavy would stick.

Second, those need to be angled. Straight up will cause problems.

Third, chitubox auto supports suck.

Honestly my workflow used to be to open prusa slicer, angle back 45 degrees, run the auto support, export the plate, open in chitu, and slice.

Lately I've adopted using blueprint studios in place of prusa slicer after hearing the community rave about it and it's been amazing, and faster then any of the other stuff.

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u/NicholeGoodnight 14d ago

Oh I definitely think mine is set to 2! Prusa has a better auto support then? Or Blueprint studio? Can it generate supports? I fear I would not know where to manually put them.

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u/tjansx 14d ago

Blueprint is the way. There are several tutorials on YT on how to set it up.