Vat separation mechanism

Updated on December 30, 2019 in Ideas & Suggestions
8 on March 17, 2018

Peichao Wang I would like to propose an idea that I believe would make the separation from the Vat easier.
It is a mechanism composed of a spring (which can be registered more or less hardness).
Useful especially in the printing of large surfaces.
When the plate is lifted, drag the tray with it, at the same time the air penetrates under the Fep film, eliminating the vacuum effect between the LCD panel and the film.
The spring will then push the tray into the rest position

 
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0 on March 21, 2018

That’s good idea,and I pass it to our mechanical department.

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1 on March 21, 2018

Thank you for your creative idea!

I am the mechanical engineer in UNIZ. Your idea do help to decrease the separating force between vat and the printed layer in theory. Do you think the vat is stiff or flexible? If it is stiff, it really helps. But in fact the film under the vat is flexible, and the fixing structure for building platform is cantilever. So in real printing, the peeling is from the rear to front. These two factor do a lot of help to peeling.

Besides, if you set the parameter of ‘motor heigh’ smaller than the distance the vat can move. The print will fail.

Hope it can help you! Thanks again for share your idea!

Zhenliang

on March 21, 2018

I find a bit of a simple thank you from a company! I believe that Andreas should be gratified in some way by the company for the idea! This helps the company and slash users!

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0 on March 21, 2018

my proposal was designed for the use of the current rigid tank supplied with the Slash, the motor that drives the tilting movement is the lifting plate, the spring is used to position the tray in the rest position.
As for the lifting stroke, just add a limit switch device

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1 on April 26, 2018

Kudos3D uses what they call a Flex vat with 2 hard and 2 flexible side walls. They use this vat for their Titan 1&2 DLP printers and also the new Bean printer. I’ve been to their office and tried out their printers before. Works great and no mechanism needed because on end of the vat is locked in and it flexes once the lift starts.

on April 26, 2018

Can you share a video or some pictures for that?It’s hard to image..

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0 on November 22, 2018

Hi, i have the same problem, first print and there are  same layers stuck to the vat construction platform…..how i can solve this??? my printer is slash pro….

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0 on December 30, 2019

NOPE! This is bad idea. Kudos3D holds the patent for this type of vat. They call it Pasive Self-Peeling. Google for US9452567 patent! Not to mention the all-mighty cUDP from UNIZ that should eliminate the peeling problem 🙂 

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