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did anyone know this printer was coming
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out did anyone know it it is out I saw
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no launch or Fanfare for this machine
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and I only spotted it when I heard about
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the upcoming mono 4 series of printers
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and at that time I was browsing the
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website and caught this in an errant
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corner I reached out to my any Cubit
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contact regarding all of them and heard
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nothing back whatever the case I feel
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it's at least a suggestion of either
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mismanagement or a lack of understanding
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of their own machine's value because
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this is probably any cubic current best
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product offering hi I'm Ross and this is
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fmer videos so yeah in lie of them
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sending out this printer I just bought
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it so I could bring you relevant content
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about it but I did get this call free 3D
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printer shaped speaker with it so
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there's something however because this
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basic M7 printer now exists it also
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means I need to go back and redo my M7
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Pro versus satin for Ultra video to now
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include the satin 4 and this M7 as a
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full four-way head-to-head of directly
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competing printers or maybe I'll just do
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the normal satin 4 versus this what
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would you prefer let me know in the
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comments the basic any cubic M7 is a
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sexy machine I like the look of it but
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I've said many times gray and orange are
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my colors they're the ones I selected
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for my own branding so I'm always happy
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to see them on products unboxing is as
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easy as it can be you just slide the
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printer out on a desk and remove the
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happy foam love this style or hate it
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but it seems that gone are the days of
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any cubic cheaper looking Affairs of
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yellow and blue casings now we have a
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rather neutral colorway with a black lid
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I certainly think this is a more
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professional looking product than what
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we've seen from them before this lid is
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a liftoff lid and it's got a couple of
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gaps in the back but I'll come back to
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those later ports wise you've got an
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rj11 port on the back for an optional
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resin feed pump and next to this is a
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port for the WiFi antenna and again I'm
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going to come back to Wi-Fi
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functionality shortly as well the
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machine's got an internal power
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transformer with the power socket on the
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rear next to the Main's rocker switch
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also on the rear is a face plate which
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covers a port for an extraction hose
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this channel can vent fumes from the
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inside of the machine when the lid's on
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but this hose Outlet looks to be some
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kind of proprietary connector due to the
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recess catches around the opening but
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I've got no idea what device we should
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or could connect to it and as far as as
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I can tell any cubic haven't told us of
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one the USB port is on the right side at
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the front which I like and these m7s
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also have a secondary power button below
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the screen which you actually need to
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hold in order to power on and power off
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the printer I didn't realize this at
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first and thought my printer wouldn't
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turn on when I was tapping it several
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times inside the machine we've got an
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advertised 14k display which again isn't
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14k the resolution is
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13,320 by 51 120 I've got a video called
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12K printers are irrelevant to explain
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how this isn't 14k if you're absolutely
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brand new to resin printing watch the
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whole video but if you've been around a
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bit skip to about 7 Minutes in the
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beginning is just me covering every
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possible angle you could be considering
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this from to help every absolute
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beginner that I can the printing build
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area of this machine is 223 by 126 mm
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with a build height of 230 mm and like
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with any printer if you want to know if
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this is big enough for your prints just
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download any of the slices for free add
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the printer and drag your prints in you
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can virtually test the build volumes of
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pretty much any printer by doing this
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the build Plate's got a really nice
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laser etched surface and a taper on the
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top now if you leave this a few minutes
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after a print most of the resin should
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flow off and back into the vat but I'm
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impatient so often during reviews I'll
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scrape it off to save time this has a
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solid grip on the handle and connects to
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The Zed arm with a large bolt and this
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Zed arm has pressure sensors in it used
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to detect pressure on the plate this can
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and does and it does it quite well
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detect obstructions resin level and its
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most strongly advertised feature is
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automatic leveling or as the any cubic
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website says it leveling free but in
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case you don't know I've got to alert
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you and I say it in every video this is
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the same absolute bollocks that most
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brands are spouting the printer is not
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leveling free at all it's not Auto
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leveling what it is there's Springs
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behind the LCD which can compress when
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the plate presses on it but even when
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the plate and Screen are parallel Under
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Pressure the screen position isn't
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locked here so if the plate isn't level
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when you get it as soon as the bed lifts
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again the screen will return to its
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nonparallel position so all it does
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automatically is detect when the plate
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is in the zero position that's it if the
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bed's unlevel you need to level
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now to adjust the leveling you need to
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unscrew the four bolts on the side of
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the Plate's arm send the bed to the zero
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location which is the bottom and tighten
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the bolts as you hold the screen flat
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now I trusted any cubic had leveled this
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for me but after my first test print
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showed me I had poor adhesion on the
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back Edge I had to relevel and I did
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this with the resin in which is messy
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but it's doable moving down the Z rail
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has a basic lead screw and two linear
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rails now when it comes to the vat
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there's something I really like it can
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hold a whole 1,000 G bottle of resin in
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here with room to spare and I personally
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feel this should be a basic requirement
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of all Vats on all 10-in printers
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however on the flip side the porw spout
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is terrible and resin just runs down and
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under the vat itself which means messy
5:56
and cleaning one of the most common
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questions have in printers and it's
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still quite a polarizing debate is the
6:03
type of release film that is used in the
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bat now not only is this film ACF but
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according to any cubic website this
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isn't just any ACF this is improved ACF
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but improved in what way does it reduce
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the bloating issue we've seen before
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does it stop the horizontal lines on
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prints well let's talk about that when
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we see the print results when it comes
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to additional featur of this machine
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there is basically one you get a USB
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powered air filter which plugs in inside
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the chamber and this does cover the air
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extraction vent grate on the surface of
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the printer but that's okay because you
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surely wouldn't extract air and try and
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filter it inside the machine at the same
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time so it makes sense that it's one or
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the other but this plugs in where the M7
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pro has a resin pump and that automatic
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auto feed unit it is actually available
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and works with this printer as a cheap
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extra if you want it but that resin pump
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is also why the lid of this printer has
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a big hole in it the resin pump actually
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aligns with that hole and fills the Gap
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here you have a gap which I was planning
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on making a complaint about until I
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spotted a stick on cover that you
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actually get in the box now on the other
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side of the lid there is still a small
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circular hole and this looks like it's
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for a power cable which makes sense but
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because it' be perfect to install any
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cubic heat and pure unit which we first
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saw with the m5s pro that also had that
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hole in the lid again this is a decent
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cheap add-on it's just without this this
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hole is just a hole with with no cover
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stick some blue tack or something in it
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I do need to quickly mention the case
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fan which comes out the right side of
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the unit because just like the M7 Pro
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this unfortunately is one of the louder
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resin printers that I have now moving on
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to the UR I've got to say again this is
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good I really like any Cubix UI they've
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stepped this up again since the m5s and
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it's decent here too it's mostly well
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translated you'll understand everything
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and it's got quick access to your
8:13
different control sections down the left
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hand side the readout during prints is
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fairly decent though I personally prefer
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a UI to show remaining time large enough
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so that I can see it across the room but
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the progress bar is just about visible
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enough you can do things like edit
8:32
numerous print settings on the fly so
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let's say you've got a print issue and
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you know a quick setting change could
8:37
fix it there's no need to reslice just
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clean out your bed and print the thing
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again but change the settings on the
8:43
printer it's a handy feature to have and
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it's nice that there's even a monitor
8:48
you can access showing Force detection
8:50
now this doesn't really help you to look
8:52
at but I guess it's at least a good way
8:54
to visualize how the printer can detect
8:57
potential adherence failures whilst
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using it though I have had a few issues
9:02
where the screen doesn't register
9:03
certain button presses leading me to
9:06
having to press it repeatedly and
9:08
sometimes quite hard just to get a few
9:10
small things to register now the slicer
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for this which by default is any cubic
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Photon Workshop but you can use pretty
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much any other Photon Workshop is coming
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on Leaps and Bounds I can't remember if
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it was this or any cubic fdm slicer I
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once called po to the point that any
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cubic are just not good enough develop
9:29
to make their own app but I should
9:32
really eat my hat because this is slowly
9:34
becoming fairly solid and considering I
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always prefer to use whatever default
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slicer comes with any printer I've got
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no issues using or now even recommending
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this one but I'll probably still be
9:47
doing my supports in ly see my how to
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print Miniatures and how to support
9:51
Miniatures videos for more information
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on that even if you're not doing
9:54
Miniatures again Miniatures are so small
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and detailed that the process should be
9:58
sound on pretty much anything that you
10:00
want to support I also need to call out
10:03
that since my last M7 review the Wi-Fi
10:05
functionality had an update too when I
10:08
reviewed the M7 I could only upload my
10:10
prints to the cloud and then go to the
10:11
printer to download them and print them
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but now I can send and start prints
10:17
remotely and even monitor the progress
10:19
in any Cubix app and the phone app is
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improving too with a cleaner UI and
10:24
handy notifications the printer seems to
10:27
also offer live progress updates on iOS
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OS but the one time I actually watched
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this I woke up the next morning to find
10:33
out that these were completely out of
10:35
sync but I'm only pointing this out I'm
10:38
not actually upset and won't winge too
10:40
hard about a one-off glitch I like the
10:43
app now then print quality I started off
10:46
by printing out eight exposure tests
10:48
using any cubic multi-exposure RF
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feature which is the resin exposure
10:53
Rangefinder I've got a separate video
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explaining how to use this well I've
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recorded it anyway and I'll get it out
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as soon as Brands stop releasing
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printers at the end of the bloody year
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once that video is up I'll stick a link
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in the description for anyone who wants
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to know how to use the r RF feature cuz
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it's useful it's just a bit it's a bit
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janky and weird anyway I started this at
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1 second per 20 Micron layers and this
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was the print that failed that I
11:19
mentioned earlier I'd also noticed that
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1 second appeared a little Overexposed
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so after leveling I changed this to
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start at25 seconds per layer and when
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using Frozen hyperfine it was still able
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to print that test now when I look at my
11:36
tests between 0.75 seconds and 1 second
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is probably the sharpest I'll get but we
11:43
can see from the lines at the bottom of
11:45
this test both are filling the Gap still
11:48
which suggests to me printer blow now
11:51
for anyone unclear on how to read this
11:53
test again check out my video on how to
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print Miniatures but here because I've
11:58
got an equal count of posts and holes on
12:00
the left hand side the exposure is
12:02
balanced but these gaps being filled in
12:04
the lines at the bottom is telling me
12:06
that the prints are bloated when
12:08
compared to similar size printers the
12:11
question I'm now left with is is this
12:13
the screen or the ACF film now because
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I've already done the M7 Pro review and
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swapped the ACF there with PFA and run
12:21
these exposure tests we can clearly see
12:23
that with the same resin and the same
12:25
screen but by swapping to PFA film we
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get sharper prints so once again and I'm
12:33
getting kind of sick of saying this and
12:35
getting crap for it in the comments when
12:36
people provide no evidence other than
12:39
you're wrong ACF reduces the detail of
12:43
prints again it's not massive but it is
12:47
there it exists this is a fact that I'm
12:50
looking at because if I literally keep
12:52
everything the same and swap ACF with
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PFA film The Prince are sharper I don't
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understand how I could be wrong here but
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I could be wrong so please if you have
13:06
cont evidence show me yes the quality of
13:10
the prints with ACF still look great I'm
13:13
just saying if you want the absolute
13:16
sharpest prints this printer can do ACF
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is not the way oh and I need to fit it
13:22
in somewhere because and this will
13:24
become more relevant in a future video
13:27
it's worth noting that antialias in
13:29
works and like I said that'll become
13:31
more relevant when I do comparison
13:32
videos of this printer to similar ones
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from other brands so make sure to keep
13:36
an eye out for those now when it comes
13:39
to speed any cubic hasn't included this
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in their tech specs for this machine but
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there is one small graphic on the page
13:46
for it which says 150 mm an hour with
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100 Micron layers tested in any cubic
13:53
lab now the M7 Pro is stated to have 170
13:58
mm an hour for again 100 Micron layers
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and I'll just take their word for it but
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not only is a 100 microns a stupid
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metric to advertise because I know very
14:08
few people who would print at this layer
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height considering it's double what most
14:13
people call standard and five times
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thicker than what I used but also the
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way any cubic are able to advertise fast
14:21
speeds is with less viscous high-speed
14:25
resins and ACF film which we've just
14:27
shown reduces print quality a little I
14:30
personally just don't care about
14:33
printers speeds here I mostly print
14:36
stuff overnight so when I wake up most
14:38
prints are done faster means it'll be
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done earlier in the night I'm still not
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going to get to it till I wake up the
14:44
next morning and I'm not alone in this
14:46
many people out there I would say most
14:48
people out there are the same don't get
14:51
me wrong speed is a nice feature to have
14:54
but it's just not for me when it comes
14:57
at any cost of quality and if you want
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quality from this machine then as we've
15:02
shown you need to swap the ACF film for
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PFA film but then it becomes just as
15:08
fast or more specifically just as slow
15:11
as any other normal printer on the
15:13
market so again when it comes to speed
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in this case yes it can be fast and out
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of the box it is fast if you use the
15:22
right resin I just personally don't care
15:26
to push this as a valid comparative met
15:29
trick because it comes with too much of
15:31
or too many butts the big one is fast
15:35
but lower quality and if you're happy
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with lower quality I'm assuming you want
15:40
to do rapid prototyping in which case
15:42
maybe look at an fdm printer I don't
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know I just think this way of doing
15:46
speed is very very Niche and not
15:50
everybody needs it but if you aren't so
15:52
F and you want this speed and are happy
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with the quality it delivers that's
15:58
great get one of these all in all I do
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think this is a decent machine and I'm
16:03
actually excited to compare this to the
16:05
M7 Pro which will be one of my next
16:08
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16:12
video so you can check that out and once
16:14
I've done that I'm going to be comparing
16:15
both of these to the Saturn as well so
16:18
watch out for that one too I think any
16:20
cubic really have stepped up their game
16:22
this time around I just think maybe
16:24
they've been trumped by other brands but
16:26
these are good machines I personally
16:28
think it would have been smarter to
16:30
release this one with PFA film then we'd
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have the M7 for quality and the M7 Pro
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for Speed but you could always do what
16:39
people did with the M5 series get a
16:41
second vat then you have the option for
16:44
both speed and quality at hand if one of
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those Vats is PFA and one of them is ACF
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and you don't need to look for or buy a
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PFA vat just buy PFA film and replace
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the ACF film with PFA but yeah I think
16:58
this is a solid machine and it's got
16:59
some great modern features like Wi-Fi
17:02
and an app to monitor progress I do like
17:05
that I find it handy and it's where
17:07
other brands are lacking and the
17:09
pressure detection here is pretty good
17:11
too if this printer is speaking your
17:13
language grab one but if you do I'd
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