Just a word of warning to anyone who might not know, that the pricing shown in the video for Lychee pro is for the first year only. The price goes up by about 20 euros for the second year and beyond. Still a pretty reasonable price if you decide the features worth it, but I thought I'd let people know to avoid being blindsided.
I write comments once every: NEVER - but I couldn't stop myself. Your content is awesome and I will tell you why: 1. You are very informative. 2. You know what you are talking about (because you test). 3. You are friendly. 4. You have the teaching gene. There wasn't a single video you've released that I didn't like, it's that simple. May the force be with you!
I was looking for this comment. Actually thought: "how dare you question the banana for scale canon?". xD Great video. Actually convinced me of giving Lychee a try.
I've been using Lychee for a couple months now and it's absolutely worth the price for the Pro version, being able to make supports partly invisible, show only contact points, many of the auto support options, and of course, the option to hide models... completely worth it for me for printing dice masters
9:40 that's simple but actually amazing. Sometimes you're so caught up zooming, placing supports only to realise later on for the scale beeing it was not needed.
Yes Vog. I’m very new to 3d printing. I’ve always casted in wax and it’s time consuming. Carving all the models out. After watching nearly all your vids on 3d casting, I bought an elegoo. I used the chitubox and after watching your videos on lychee, i downloaded it and paid for it before I even went in it. 😂 it’s so much better than chitubox. You go into a lot of detail on your vids and every single one has helped me. Thank you for the hard work and all the time you’ve put into these. It must be like a permanent job with all the tests and trials you do. Keep it up and thank you very much. Happy printing. Happy casting. 🙂
Using the Anycubic Mono and its slicing software, I often find the supports bonded to the model in areas they should not even be touching, so the ability to adjust the positioning of the supports is huge to me.
i'm about two and a half weeks deep into printing now from absolutely no knowledge to now rendering my own objects and printing on filament and now diving into resin... this and your how to slice in chitu video really help a lot... my biggest issue/concern/lesson this last week was not supporting my models enough or properly, i feel like these give better insight about how to do it, and i'm grateful and ready to try again
That print size thing is a good idea. I've printed a few things and "oh, that's not what I expected" And I just realised we can do that by importing another model of known size.
I have a few Anycubic printers, THANK YOU. I have uninstalled ChiTuBox and use Lycée now and can not overstate how much it is better for me, it does not crash and works on my printers trouble free. The planer cut feature is the best I have seen yet.
I have my first 3d printer about to be unboxed, the Anycubic photon mono se. Your videos have given me the confidence to give 3d printing a shot! thank you so much, you have a new subscriber for life!
Picked up a Photon mono X on Wednesday. (My First Resin printer) Fought with shitubox or whatever its called! And Photon workshop for a few days! Someone told me about Lychee slicer so I grabbed it and watched this video! Had a model hollowed, supported, and sliced while watching your video and now have it on the printer! Thanks!! And with the support manipulation you showed in pro I think I will absolutely go pro!!
took me a week to learn how to use it to my satisfaction, and now i get great prints with few failures, and easy to remove supports. They got my money. and i love that the subscription is reasonable
Thanks for the review of Lychee Slicer. I just got an Anycubic Photon Mono X and need a slicer anyway. And right in the middle of your rant about having to watch an ad before slicing, your video was interrupted by two ads put up by YT. Very annoying, but just a tiny inconvenience to suffer for the excellent content. Lol.
Just upgrade to Yt premium. Worth every penny for me. No more annoying adds and I can listen to anything even with the schreen locked. Definietly recommend it if you learn a lot from yt videos. Makes life easyer for a small amount of money.
Thank you so much for this in-depth review. I have just recently procured my first 3d printer (Elegoo Saturn), and was overwhelmed with researching all of the different slicers. This is Very helpful. Thank you.
Thank you! My first resin printer arrived this week. I'm pretty experienced with FDM printing but this is obviously a whole different ballgame. This was perfectly timed as I was just settling down to watch dome UA-cam before I started the hunt for a different slicer. Hey presto! You have the solution. Much appreciated for the clear run through
Very helpful video.... clear, coherent, and consistent. I appreciate the direct, well spoken approach over the histrionics and hyperbole found in so many other videos out there. Thank you for your time and effort.
Got my Mars 2 Pro two weeks ago, Chitubox was rather intuitive. Was watching videos on better supports and this got suggested. Downloading this right now!
The voice alone deserves a thumbs-up. ;) I just started printing with my new Sonic Mini 4K and have found Chitubox 1.8.1 to be incredibly laggy (supposedly 1.7.* was much faster). So I started playing with Lychee and so far I’m really impressed, so much so I bought a Pro license. Looking forward to really digging into the slicer and printing off some files this weekend. Great overview!
Btw Lychee doesn't seem to have two sliders for top & bottom, but you can switch if you want it to hide from the top or from the bottom. When you hover the mouse over the square in the slider that you move it up-n-down it'll show a small menu that: - shows the current height and layer # - has button to switch Top/Bottom to hide - and apparently it can change the exposure speeds mid-way (not only when printing the bottom & transition layers)!
Hey 🤘 I suppose it's the slicer you talked me about, I will try with my SL1, I was asking you about chitubox because I really like that support management and your video was very helpful to place the supports at the best places and with the right strength and quantity.. Thanks again 🙏
It's worth giving Lychee a try - it's free after all. The island detector and then auto-island-support really takes the guesswork out of things. It also supports a vast range of printers and, from my experience, is a lot less glitchy that ChiTuBox. It's worth a look 😁
Oh thank God you made this video and that I watched it. Ever since I got my Anycubic Photon Mono X and being forced to use the Photon Workshop I had been getting so frustrated with printing in general. Their slicer has this really annoying bug that adds exposure spots all the way up models where there is not supposed to be anything. I have already had a couple prints that are useless because of it and many models that just don't slice right at all because of it. And with Chitubox not supporting Anycubic's file type it is so frustrating. Not that Chitubox wasn't frustrating as well. I have had it crash many times as well. But what is more frustrating than the crashes is the random changes to my support settings which happens way more than the crashes. I am having to constantly reimport my saved settings for the supports because every time I turn around they all change on me. So...I am definitely going to try this other slicer you are showing in this video. I will download it right now in fact. Thanks for showing it to us. It is very much appreciated.🤘😉👍
At your recommendation, I did end up trying the free version yesterday, and while I was impressed overall, some core features were locked to the pro version unfortunately so I didn't get to try those out (like hollowing for instance. You can play with the sliders of these features but not actually use it, etc). I may switch to it with time, but for now I'll remain with chitu as it is full-featured and learning it's depth is free.
I like freebies too, but you can't blame the guys at Lychee for trying to earn a living. It's a great slicer that really helps make life easy - BUT if you can cope with ChiTuBox and you get good prints, save your money 😊👍
I just want to say, I'm very new at all this and recently bought an Anycubic Photon Mono 4k with wash and cure station 2.0. I was at a loss what to do after I printed the test print. I couldn't get anything work at all. Nothing would stick. I watched this video and then dumped both Chitubox and Photon Workshop and tried Lychee. I just had my first successful print last night with this software! I though it was me and I literally loaded the same file that failed countless time in both the others and BAM! Worked first shot. Thanks for making this video as it really helped a beginner print. Just wanted to drop that story and say thanks!
No problem Brandon. You might also want to try this video on supports. It should help you grasp the fundamentals easily ua-cam.com/video/MU0Cq_bjhy4/v-deo.html Happy printing 😁😁😁
I moved to Lychee and use it for both Resin and Filament jobs. The subscription model is so low cost that I recommend it to everyone (especial in light of Chitubox Pro's cost).
Thanks for the review and bringing this to my attention. I have now used it for about dozen prints and it is impressive. A word of warning though. It seems to require access to some server somewhere and thus they can turn it off at anytime or demand subscription or hike the prices. We have all seen this with Fusion 360 and Onshape and Photoshop and all the other cloud based sw. For a slicer this is not so critical, if that happens, just use some other slicer as your data and design is not held hostage. So enjoy while you can but avoid falling in love. Their very small subscription fee is not a sustainable business model so something has to give or they need some other revenue to keep the dream alive. For comparison Simplify3D charges one time fee $149.
I hear you Jim. I'm not a big fan of subscription based software either. Unfortunately thanks to giants like Microsoft and Adobe, it looks as though this is the way things will continue to go.
@@vogman Thanks. My comment was just a heads up and as said it is not a big issue with a slicer software which is easily replaced and where every job is sort of one of and not like complex CAD model with hundreds of hours invested on it. Subscription is alright for businesses as it just an other tool that will need constant money spent on it anyway, subscription or upgrades every year, as long as it pays for it self it is fine. But for hobby/maker stuff subscription is not good cause the wallet bleeds all the time but there are long spell in life when one is too busy to make anything.
video suggestion: making resin printed parts that snap fit together. i have yet to resin print parts with tolerances good enough to connect various pieces after printing. example, a figure who's arms pieces connect to the body piece. i always have to do a bunch of sanding to get the pieces to fit together and even then it often looks like crap
OMG i tried this a while back. its starting to look like a decent slicer. Quick question the resin profiles did you add them yourself? and or is there somewhere I can get the resin profiles from.? I have an anycubic photon s.
The only problem I've had with the Lychee free version is when you try to duplicate an imported model on the build plate. It always crashes for me. The workaround is to export one fully supported model as an obj or stl from the export tab, then drag it back in to the build plate as many times as you need. The supports will be part of the model and no longer editable, but it works.
I started with Lychee, and the first few slices I produced printed fine. Then, without changing anything, every print I tried to load to the printer complained that the slice had serious problems and it would not print. I can do the same thing in Chitubox without running into this. I need to do another one in Lychee and try again, but I did like 10 in a couple days with the same issue last week. I prefer Lychee, more user friendly, but with that issue, it makes Chitubox work better as every print I have done through Chitubox has worked perfectly.
Not sure if I can already do it in some slicer, but I really want an option withing a slicer to add circular cutouts (or just holes that don't need to fully clear) so I can add magnets. I feel I waste alot of time messi g around with 2nd program just to do this to my files before importing into a slicer program.
Seems nice, but two things you didn't mention and it is a huge factor: 1-How is you rate print success with those supports? 2-How easy is to remove them, are they live nast marks?
I wasn't in the market for a new slicer and only came to support your channel. However, after reading the comments, I'm beginning to think that maybe I should give this a try.
I just got a Mars 3 and other than handling the resin the other thing that scares me is prepping models to print in terms of orientation and supports. The printer came with a one year subscription to Chitubox and I’ve been checking it out while I wait for my resin to arrive. Not intuitive and beginner friendly at all! Lychee seems much better and I’ll give it a try as well. Thanks for your excellent review!
I got my Mars 3 a little over a year ago. My free Chitubox subscription has run out, so now I'm having to learn Lychee. While Chitubox would detect islands, the pro version of Lychee seems to just let you automatically put supports at every island. That alone is making me seriously consider paying for pro. I think you're gonna love your Mars 3, I've had great success with mine. One quality of life improvement I'll suggest, the WhamBam flexi plate system. You'll never have to touch a scraper again for removing your prints from the build plate. Happy printing!
Looks very good and I like the pro features but I think I'll pass on the subscription model. These start to add up and if one day you can't afford it any more you lose it. Much prefer a one shot price even if it more expensive in the long run.
I like to believe that the actual 3D printer user just hired a guy with story book accent to read a script. He sounds like a documentary narrator. Reminds me of the narrator of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
i just found out about this. good to see you have a video about it already :D are you still using it in the pro version? I think I'm going to give it a try.
Looks good, I'll have to give it a try. Have you looked at Prusa slicer at all? I have used it to generate supports before exporting the whole build plate as an STL to use in chitubox to improve the support generation.
About the add when exporting. Having a 20-30s add is nothing compaired to the loss from all chitubox crashes. Even with a backup thats less than the time it takes to load and navigate where to u were and examine whats gone.
I think it is also worth noting that the developers are VERY active on their Discord server. If you're having any issues, or potentially have an idea, you could talk directly to a developer within minutes. I've been using Lychee for months now, and going back to Chitubox feels like going back to Windows 95. It's crazy.
Very good! I just got the latest stable release. Maybe make an update video when you get to give the new one a good go? Btw I found an interesting feature that's not at all advertised. If you're sizing a ring, the scale option doesn't tell you the internal diameter. You could scale by percentage and then measure it, BUT if you put two measuring points at equal opposing spots in the inner diameter of the ring, you can ( I know you can in the beta version for sure) type in the I.D. dimension you want in the measurement output box and it'll scale the whole model around that inner diameter you typed in! That got me excited when I discovered it!
PLEASE HELP.. I have just brought the elegoo mars 2 pro and have a bottle of elegoo standard photopolymer resin Grey. Trying to use Lychee or chitubox but can't find the resin info anywhere that Lychee asks for. I can find my printer in the list of printers but have to add the resin manually and then it asks for loads of info to be inputted and I can't find anywhere what to put in there?
They just dropped an update to Lychee (version 4.0.6 - I think), has a nice new support painter, and a ton of new features. Still one of the few slicers I have found that has an Island search function and that alone has saved me so many prints. I got the PRO edition personally it makes it a bit of a difference when working with supports and hollowing.
hahaha love the banana reference in that size comparison. thanks for the video. hadn't heard of Lychee yet and I'm eager to try it out, as I do have some issues with Chitubox, such as rotating in a counter intuitive way and hard to hit rotation circles for instance
Talking of rotation... ever supported a model and then thought, "I'll just rotate it a tiny bit" only to have ChiTuBox strip away all the supports? Lychee keeps track of them and can reset position 😁
9:50 "I don't agree with the banana being there" Everyone knows that you use banana's for scale, it is the intergalactic standard for scale measurement and the most accurate way of telling someone how big something is!!!
Do you know how to customize hollowing for models if you have more than one on the build plate? I would like some to be solid and others to be hollowed. It would also be nice to control the hollowing differently for different parts.
yup - Lychee is hands down the best - could have done with this video earlier! I switched over from Chitubox two weeks ago, and I'm really regretting the time I spent with Chitbubox before that... I didn't like how you have to buy Pro from within the app instead of on a website - I prefer to use Chrome saved payment details rather than having to enter in my card details to new third parties. Also the online login/signin every app start is pretty annoying... But the app itself is the slicer king. Chitubox isn't in the same game, and it's far more powerful than Formlabs Preform, although not quite as polished yet - but that polish (and more features) is being added at lightning speed.
I'm fairly new to it myself. I've been playing with it for 3 or 4 weeks now. I don't like to do a video until I've kicked the tyres and put good mileage on the clock 😁
Maybe I'm missing something...I downloaded it and when I select any resin from their list in the Add Custom Resin, it gets the names and all, but the settings are all the same as the default. So it's not actually doing anything for me except the names. Is it pulling down settings for others? I'm using Lychee 3.2.0 on macOS Big Sur 11.1 (beta 2)
Really cool, finding islands is such a pain, I might download it just for that. The other features just sweeten the deal. I just wish there was a 1 time buy option because man do I hate subscriptions no matter what it is.
Hi just subscribed and liked the video it helped me loads 👍. Would it be possible to make a video regarding how to split a mini into several parts to make it larger. Also I'm very confused over the resin settings as every video I've watched seems to say different things. I have anycubic photo mono and using anycubic grey resin. Keep up the great videos. Ps were did you get that stl file for the Lrg black monster?
just because of the banana scale, I'll use it
You'd be bananas not to 😁😁😁
The fact they included the banana to scale meme shows an extra level of love from the devs.
Just a word of warning to anyone who might not know, that the pricing shown in the video for Lychee pro is for the first year only. The price goes up by about 20 euros for the second year and beyond. Still a pretty reasonable price if you decide the features worth it, but I thought I'd let people know to avoid being blindsided.
Interesting... thanks for the share 😁
create new email and account and off you go.
I write comments once every: NEVER - but I couldn't stop myself. Your content is awesome and I will tell you why: 1. You are very informative. 2. You know what you are talking about (because you test). 3. You are friendly. 4. You have the teaching gene. There wasn't a single video you've released that I didn't like, it's that simple. May the force be with you!
Wow, thank you! I appreciate that, Roy. take care buddy. 😁😁😁😁😁
OF COURSE there has to be a banana for scale. The meme gods demand it!
Any relation to the casting gods? Fickle bunch indeed...
Banana for scale is a thing, a fun and silly thing
I was looking for this comment. Actually thought: "how dare you question the banana for scale canon?". xD Great video. Actually convinced me of giving Lychee a try.
It’s rare when I’m impressed enough to want to binge watch someone on UA-cam, congratulations for a fine job!
That's very kind Joe, thanks 😁
I've been using Lychee for a couple months now and it's absolutely worth the price for the Pro version, being able to make supports partly invisible, show only contact points, many of the auto support options, and of course, the option to hide models... completely worth it for me for printing dice masters
I agree with you 100%
9:40 that's simple but actually amazing. Sometimes you're so caught up zooming, placing supports only to realise later on for the scale beeing it was not needed.
You have some of the best reviews I have seen on UA-cam about 3d printing
Many thanks. It takes me ages to write them all 😉😁😁😁
Fact
Yes Vog. I’m very new to 3d printing. I’ve always casted in wax and it’s time consuming. Carving all the models out. After watching nearly all your vids on 3d casting, I bought an elegoo. I used the chitubox and after watching your videos on lychee, i downloaded it and paid for it before I even went in it. 😂 it’s so much better than chitubox. You go into a lot of detail on your vids and every single one has helped me. Thank you for the hard work and all the time you’ve put into these. It must be like a permanent job with all the tests and trials you do.
Keep it up and thank you very much.
Happy printing.
Happy casting. 🙂
Using the Anycubic Mono and its slicing software, I often find the supports bonded to the model in areas they should not even be touching, so the ability to adjust the positioning of the supports is huge to me.
Give it a go and see how you get on 😁
I just did my first large model using auto supports in the anycubic software and It has support poles touching the model :(
i'm about two and a half weeks deep into printing now from absolutely no knowledge to now rendering my own objects and printing on filament and now diving into resin... this and your how to slice in chitu video really help a lot... my biggest issue/concern/lesson this last week was not supporting my models enough or properly, i feel like these give better insight about how to do it, and i'm grateful and ready to try again
That print size thing is a good idea. I've printed a few things and "oh, that's not what I expected"
And I just realised we can do that by importing another model of known size.
It impressed me as well. It's good to have something to visually compare with. Clever thinking 😁
I have a few Anycubic printers, THANK YOU. I have uninstalled ChiTuBox and use Lycée now and can not overstate how much it is better for me, it does not crash and works on my printers trouble free. The planer cut feature is the best I have seen yet.
I just got my anycubic last night a am so glad I ran into this video.
Nice one 😁
Just got mine today.thabk you VOG!
I have my first 3d printer about to be unboxed, the Anycubic photon mono se. Your videos have given me the confidence to give 3d printing a shot! thank you so much, you have a new subscriber for life!
Glad to have you here 😁😁😁
Picked up a Photon mono X on Wednesday. (My First Resin printer) Fought with shitubox or whatever its called! And Photon workshop for a few days! Someone told me about Lychee slicer so I grabbed it and watched this video! Had a model hollowed, supported, and sliced while watching your video and now have it on the printer! Thanks!! And with the support manipulation you showed in pro I think I will absolutely go pro!!
Happy printing 😁😁😁
thanks, great video, just getting into resin printing from FDM, you saved me time trying to decide on which slicer to use
Very welcome
Photo Mono will arrive this week and playing with Workshop from Fdm(cura) made me panick a bit lol. Cheers sir and thanks
took me a week to learn how to use it to my satisfaction, and now i get great prints with few failures, and easy to remove supports. They got my money. and i love that the subscription is reasonable
I don't even have a 3D printer yet and you sold me on the PRO version of this. Thank you.
Thanks for the review of Lychee Slicer. I just got an Anycubic Photon Mono X and need a slicer anyway.
And right in the middle of your rant about having to watch an ad before slicing, your video was interrupted by two ads put up by YT. Very annoying, but just a tiny inconvenience to suffer for the excellent content. Lol.
Just upgrade to Yt premium. Worth every penny for me. No more annoying adds and I can listen to anything even with the schreen locked. Definietly recommend it if you learn a lot from yt videos. Makes life easyer for a small amount of money.
Looks much improved from when I tried it last year. I'll have to give it another go. Great depth of information in this video.
very kind. Thanks 😁
Thank you so much for this in-depth review. I have just recently procured my first 3d printer (Elegoo Saturn), and was overwhelmed with researching all of the different slicers. This is Very helpful. Thank you.
It seems a lot to take in at first James, but in a few days it will all be second nature to you 😁
@@vogman Is it true you cannot directly slice for Saturn with Lychee?
I'm getting ready to get a Resin printer and watching your videos has really helped me out. Thanks for that!
Happy to help 😁
Thank you! My first resin printer arrived this week. I'm pretty experienced with FDM printing but this is obviously a whole different ballgame. This was perfectly timed as I was just settling down to watch dome UA-cam before I started the hunt for a different slicer. Hey presto! You have the solution. Much appreciated for the clear run through
Honestly, I wish I'd had this slicer when I started with resin. Enjoy! 😁
Very helpful video.... clear, coherent, and consistent. I appreciate the direct, well spoken approach over the histrionics and hyperbole found in so many other videos out there. Thank you for your time and effort.
Got my Mars 2 Pro two weeks ago, Chitubox was rather intuitive. Was watching videos on better supports and this got suggested. Downloading this right now!
Your voice and accent alone makes this video worth watching. Kind of a David Attenborough adjacent voice of 3d printing.
Many thanks 😁
Just found this channel, have to say, one of the better and more practical reviews I have seen. Big thank you.
Wow, thanks! Hope you stay and enjoy a few more 😁
I am learning this now and love it. There is a feature that you can slice the model if you need to break it up to fit and it works so good
Good isn't it 😁
The voice alone deserves a thumbs-up. ;) I just started printing with my new Sonic Mini 4K and have found Chitubox 1.8.1 to be incredibly laggy (supposedly 1.7.* was much faster). So I started playing with Lychee and so far I’m really impressed, so much so I bought a Pro license. Looking forward to really digging into the slicer and printing off some files this weekend. Great overview!
It's a great slicer that quickly becomes a favourite tool 😁
dude you're voice is epic!
Many thanks 😁
I do not know why. The accent reminds me of Brainiac75 (A monster magnets and lasers guy)
Btw Lychee doesn't seem to have two sliders for top & bottom, but you can switch if you want it to hide from the top or from the bottom.
When you hover the mouse over the square in the slider that you move it up-n-down it'll show a small menu that:
- shows the current height and layer #
- has button to switch Top/Bottom to hide
- and apparently it can change the exposure speeds mid-way (not only when printing the bottom & transition layers)!
Thank you! I’ll be swapping to using Lychee now! Hell yes! 👍😁
Nice one Denise. Like all new things it takes a little getting used to, but after a few prints you'll never look back 😁
Hell this is a better overview & use guide than most of the pure chitubox guides!! Thanks tree hugger man!
I've been called worse... and no trees have been harmed or molested in the making of these videos 🤣
Happy to help.
Hey 🤘 I suppose it's the slicer you talked me about, I will try with my SL1, I was asking you about chitubox because I really like that support management and your video was very helpful to place the supports at the best places and with the right strength and quantity.. Thanks again 🙏
It's worth giving Lychee a try - it's free after all. The island detector and then auto-island-support really takes the guesswork out of things. It also supports a vast range of printers and, from my experience, is a lot less glitchy that ChiTuBox. It's worth a look 😁
Thanks so much for sharing this useful information! Really helps understand the differences and features for a newbie resin printer user.
Glad it was helpful!
Oh thank God you made this video and that I watched it. Ever since I got my Anycubic Photon Mono X and being forced to use the Photon Workshop I had been getting so frustrated with printing in general. Their slicer has this really annoying bug that adds exposure spots all the way up models where there is not supposed to be anything. I have already had a couple prints that are useless because of it and many models that just don't slice right at all because of it. And with Chitubox not supporting Anycubic's file type it is so frustrating. Not that Chitubox wasn't frustrating as well. I have had it crash many times as well. But what is more frustrating than the crashes is the random changes to my support settings which happens way more than the crashes. I am having to constantly reimport my saved settings for the supports because every time I turn around they all change on me.
So...I am definitely going to try this other slicer you are showing in this video. I will download it right now in fact. Thanks for showing it to us. It is very much appreciated.🤘😉👍
No worries. Give it a go 😁
Just got my first resin printer Mono X 4K - wasn't sure which slicer to use...
Now I know!
Thanks for the great video!
You've chosen well both times 😁
Thanks for video. Features look good. Gonna give this program a try.
At your recommendation, I did end up trying the free version yesterday, and while I was impressed overall, some core features were locked to the pro version unfortunately so I didn't get to try those out (like hollowing for instance. You can play with the sliders of these features but not actually use it, etc). I may switch to it with time, but for now I'll remain with chitu as it is full-featured and learning it's depth is free.
I like freebies too, but you can't blame the guys at Lychee for trying to earn a living. It's a great slicer that really helps make life easy - BUT if you can cope with ChiTuBox and you get good prints, save your money 😊👍
Nice. I was looking to leave the default Anycubic slicer.
Just wow, looks amazing and great video as always. Will be trying this out.
Hope you enjoy 😁
I just want to say, I'm very new at all this and recently bought an Anycubic Photon Mono 4k with wash and cure station 2.0. I was at a loss what to do after I printed the test print. I couldn't get anything work at all. Nothing would stick. I watched this video and then dumped both Chitubox and Photon Workshop and tried Lychee. I just had my first successful print last night with this software! I though it was me and I literally loaded the same file that failed countless time in both the others and BAM! Worked first shot. Thanks for making this video as it really helped a beginner print. Just wanted to drop that story and say thanks!
No problem Brandon. You might also want to try this video on supports. It should help you grasp the fundamentals easily ua-cam.com/video/MU0Cq_bjhy4/v-deo.html
Happy printing 😁😁😁
WOW. This has everything I’m looking for, and more. Definitely getting this tonight. Thanks for the review!
Glad I could help!
I moved to Lychee and use it for both Resin and Filament jobs. The subscription model is so low cost that I recommend it to everyone (especial in light of Chitubox Pro's cost).
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the review and bringing this to my attention. I have now used it for about dozen prints and it is impressive. A word of warning though. It seems to require access to some server somewhere and thus they can turn it off at anytime or demand subscription or hike the prices.
We have all seen this with Fusion 360 and Onshape and Photoshop and all the other cloud based sw. For a slicer this is not so critical, if that happens, just use some other slicer as your data and design is not held hostage. So enjoy while you can but avoid falling in love.
Their very small subscription fee is not a sustainable business model so something has to give or they need some other revenue to keep the dream alive. For comparison Simplify3D charges one time fee $149.
I hear you Jim. I'm not a big fan of subscription based software either. Unfortunately thanks to giants like Microsoft and Adobe, it looks as though this is the way things will continue to go.
@@vogman Thanks. My comment was just a heads up and as said it is not a big issue with a slicer software which is easily replaced and where every job is sort of one of and not like complex CAD model with hundreds of hours invested on it. Subscription is alright for businesses as it just an other tool that will need constant money spent on it anyway, subscription or upgrades every year, as long as it pays for it self it is fine. But for hobby/maker stuff subscription is not good cause the wallet bleeds all the time but there are long spell in life when one is too busy to make anything.
video suggestion: making resin printed parts that snap fit together. i have yet to resin print parts with tolerances good enough to connect various pieces after printing. example, a figure who's arms pieces connect to the body piece. i always have to do a bunch of sanding to get the pieces to fit together and even then it often looks like crap
Great suggestion!
Wonder if this are better for elegoo saturn... I have alot of problems with Shitubox :p
Well done Geoff!! Downloaded and can't wait to give it a try!
It makes life easy Dan and I'm all for that : )
Great review. I'm going to try Lychee out.
Hope you enjoy it! 😁
Thank you! Getting it now! I’ll be your friend for life, because I love Anycubic and hate other slicers.
It's a very good slicer and works great with Anycubic printers 😊
OMG i tried this a while back. its starting to look like a decent slicer.
Quick question the resin profiles did you add them yourself? and or is there somewhere I can get the resin profiles from.? I have an anycubic photon s.
I love how I got the ad when he got the ad :')
Yea that ad placement was genius 😂
The only problem I've had with the Lychee free version is when you try to duplicate an imported model on the build plate. It always crashes for me. The workaround is to export one fully supported model as an obj or stl from the export tab, then drag it back in to the build plate as many times as you need. The supports will be part of the model and no longer editable, but it works.
I started with Lychee, and the first few slices I produced printed fine. Then, without changing anything, every print I tried to load to the printer complained that the slice had serious problems and it would not print. I can do the same thing in Chitubox without running into this. I need to do another one in Lychee and try again, but I did like 10 in a couple days with the same issue last week. I prefer Lychee, more user friendly, but with that issue, it makes Chitubox work better as every print I have done through Chitubox has worked perfectly.
Yet another thorough review to help guide us. Thanks for giving us the benefit of your hard work and experience!
Thanks Alex. I hope it's helpful 😁
awesome and extremely well stated video without all the hype! straight to the facts with proof I love it! now to watch all your other videos :)
Not sure if I can already do it in some slicer, but I really want an option withing a slicer to add circular cutouts (or just holes that don't need to fully clear) so I can add magnets.
I feel I waste alot of time messi g around with 2nd program just to do this to my files before importing into a slicer program.
Seems nice, but two things you didn't mention and it is a huge factor: 1-How is you rate print success with those supports? 2-How easy is to remove them, are they live nast marks?
I wasn't in the market for a new slicer and only came to support your channel. However, after reading the comments, I'm beginning to think that maybe I should give this a try.
Finding islands and overhangs automatically is a pretty big deal. Tree branching looks pretty sweet, too.
The support means more to me than I can say 😁😁😁😁😁😁
Absolutely. If it makes life easy, it's worth a try.
Just watched this, getting this right now, good thing my weekend just started! 😅😋👍
Hope you enjoy it!
I just got a Mars 3 and other than handling the resin the other thing that scares me is prepping models to print in terms of orientation and supports. The printer came with a one year subscription to Chitubox and I’ve been checking it out while I wait for my resin to arrive. Not intuitive and beginner friendly at all! Lychee seems much better and I’ll give it a try as well. Thanks for your excellent review!
I got my Mars 3 a little over a year ago. My free Chitubox subscription has run out, so now I'm having to learn Lychee. While Chitubox would detect islands, the pro version of Lychee seems to just let you automatically put supports at every island. That alone is making me seriously consider paying for pro.
I think you're gonna love your Mars 3, I've had great success with mine. One quality of life improvement I'll suggest, the WhamBam flexi plate system. You'll never have to touch a scraper again for removing your prints from the build plate. Happy printing!
Looks very good and I like the pro features but I think I'll pass on the subscription model. These start to add up and if one day you can't afford it any more you lose it. Much prefer a one shot price even if it more expensive in the long run.
I fully understand... trust me on that. But try the FREE version. 😁
I like to believe that the actual 3D printer user just hired a guy with story book accent to read a script.
He sounds like a documentary narrator. Reminds me of the narrator of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
i just found out about this. good to see you have a video about it already :D
are you still using it in the pro version? I think I'm going to give it a try.
Yes, I'm enjoying Lychee. I find it much easier to use. It speeds up the process for me and does a better job 😁
Dude.......your voice is just amazing. Also, good review as usual......that is all.
Thanks! 😃
Thank you very much your way of explaining step-by-step is the best keep the great work
Glad it helped
What’s your best advice for hollowing? I try it and always fail, if I don’t hollow perfect prints?
Love these videos. Time to download Lychee slicer
Enjoy! 😁😁😁
Looks good, I'll have to give it a try. Have you looked at Prusa slicer at all? I have used it to generate supports before exporting the whole build plate as an STL to use in chitubox to improve the support generation.
big fan of your videos, to me... you are the few, that does it right. Keep doing what u do.
That's very kind 😁😁😁
On the free version on some printers you can't use the full build volume of your chosen printer. But in saying that it's still and good slicer.
This is exactly what I needed! Thanks
Glad it helped!
Question, can I do everything in lychee and then open the result in photon for sending the file to the printer?
Thanks, I'll be using it shortly!
Nice one Chuck : )
Second vid i watched of you, really nice editing, easy to
To listen :)
That's very kind, thanks 😁
About the add when exporting. Having a 20-30s add is nothing compaired to the loss from all chitubox crashes. Even with a backup thats less than the time it takes to load and navigate where to u were and examine whats gone.
Love the review as allways spot on VOG i cant rate the sortware myself but willing to try now :)
Love Lychee. Don't mind paying for it as it will hopefully continue to allow for improvements, etc.
I think it is also worth noting that the developers are VERY active on their Discord server. If you're having any issues, or potentially have an idea, you could talk directly to a developer within minutes.
I've been using Lychee for months now, and going back to Chitubox feels like going back to Windows 95. It's crazy.
Thanks for the input 😁
@@vogman Love your videos :), was very excited to see that you gave Lychee a go
Quick question, is it a dialect thing that you pronounce it as "Lee chee"? I've only heard it as "Lie Chee" so I got confused for a second XD
Very good! I just got the latest stable release. Maybe make an update video when you get to give the new one a good go? Btw I found an interesting feature that's not at all advertised. If you're sizing a ring, the scale option doesn't tell you the internal diameter. You could scale by percentage and then measure it, BUT if you put two measuring points at equal opposing spots in the inner diameter of the ring, you can ( I know you can in the beta version for sure) type in the I.D. dimension you want in the measurement output box and it'll scale the whole model around that inner diameter you typed in! That got me excited when I discovered it!
Thanks for the tip. I'll give it go 😁
PLEASE HELP.. I have just brought the elegoo mars 2 pro and have a bottle of elegoo standard photopolymer resin Grey. Trying to use Lychee or chitubox but can't find the resin info anywhere that Lychee asks for. I can find my printer in the list of printers but have to add the resin manually and then it asks for loads of info to be inputted and I can't find anywhere what to put in there?
Does it calculate cost by resin type and change setting slightly due to different resin chosen?
They just dropped an update to Lychee (version 4.0.6 - I think), has a nice new support painter, and a ton of new features. Still one of the few slicers I have found that has an Island search function and that alone has saved me so many prints. I got the PRO edition personally it makes it a bit of a difference when working with supports and hollowing.
Awesome that it supports the mono x :)
does the alt-push-for-tree work in the free basic version as well?
banana for scale will actually make me use this exclusivly
I have... never heard anybody pronounce lychee like that. Interesting 👍
The correct way? ;)
hahaha love the banana reference in that size comparison. thanks for the video. hadn't heard of Lychee yet and I'm eager to try it out, as I do have some issues with Chitubox, such as rotating in a counter intuitive way and hard to hit rotation circles for instance
Talking of rotation... ever supported a model and then thought, "I'll just rotate it a tiny bit" only to have ChiTuBox strip away all the supports? Lychee keeps track of them and can reset position 😁
@@vogman haven't had the time yet, but can't wait to try it. sounds like a dream compared to some of the Chitubox quirks that really bug me
9:50 "I don't agree with the banana being there"
Everyone knows that you use banana's for scale, it is the intergalactic standard for scale measurement and the most accurate way of telling someone how big something is!!!
I get the humour, I just think it's a great tool that could benefit from something more scale specific 😁😁😁
@@vogman , I am sure the "banana industry" is working on this problem (making them all the same size).
Do you know how to customize hollowing for models if you have more than one on the build plate? I would like some to be solid and others to be hollowed. It would also be nice to control the hollowing differently for different parts.
yup - Lychee is hands down the best - could have done with this video earlier! I switched over from Chitubox two weeks ago, and I'm really regretting the time I spent with Chitbubox before that...
I didn't like how you have to buy Pro from within the app instead of on a website - I prefer to use Chrome saved payment details rather than having to enter in my card details to new third parties. Also the online login/signin every app start is pretty annoying...
But the app itself is the slicer king. Chitubox isn't in the same game, and it's far more powerful than Formlabs Preform, although not quite as polished yet - but that polish (and more features) is being added at lightning speed.
I'm fairly new to it myself. I've been playing with it for 3 or 4 weeks now. I don't like to do a video until I've kicked the tyres and put good mileage on the clock 😁
This software support for Ender 3?
Cost is now at 59.90euro you would need to be doing a lot of printing. No longer for the hobbyist (At least not in AU @ A$98.65).
Maybe I'm missing something...I downloaded it and when I select any resin from their list in the Add Custom Resin, it gets the names and all, but the settings are all the same as the default. So it's not actually doing anything for me except the names. Is it pulling down settings for others? I'm using Lychee 3.2.0 on macOS Big Sur 11.1 (beta 2)
Really cool, finding islands is such a pain, I might download it just for that.
The other features just sweeten the deal.
I just wish there was a 1 time buy option because man do I hate subscriptions no matter what it is.
Looks nice, and I will be trying it. Wish they had a one price for life fee, as its a bit over $36/year USD.
Once you've subscribed for a while, you see how often these guys update. hen you realise why subscription is the only paying option for them.
Learnt some useful tips. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
My photon mono X has shipped, and this is great news! I see it supports SL1 as well :-)
It's a fabulous slicer that works on so many printers and will accompany that Mono Z nicely : )
Hi just subscribed and liked the video it helped me loads 👍.
Would it be possible to make a video regarding how to split a mini into several parts to make it larger.
Also I'm very confused over the resin settings as every video I've watched seems to say different things.
I have anycubic photo mono and using anycubic grey resin.
Keep up the great videos.
Ps were did you get that stl file for the Lrg black monster?
Hi Steve. Welcome aboard.
I'll add your suggested videos to the list 😁
As for the models, try here - archvillaingames.com/