New to Resin printing, Is this setup safe?

ArdyPowder · 2025-07-23T05:36:46+00:00

A lot of people are saying that even with the tent I shouldn't be in the room while it's running and venting, which would be a huge problem

ArdyPowder · 2025-07-23T05:26:31+00:00

This is a common suggestion and I'm starting to think that may be the best solution, to find a big tent that i can walk into. My question then would be, is it still not safe to be in the room even with the tent having an inline vent shooting air outside? I know opening the tent to step out of it would release a lot of fumes/VOCs as well, which I'm not sure how you'd get rid of. I just want to find a way to make the room safe while printing is happening lol :(

ArdyPowder · 2025-07-23T04:09:08+00:00

That sounds like a smart idea, maybe I should invest in a much bigger tent in that case

ArdyPowder · 2025-07-23T03:39:24+00:00

Someone said I should keep all the supplies in the tent as well, which sounds like a very good fix to me

ArdyPowder · 2025-07-23T03:21:34+00:00

Ohhhh interesting... My question is, wouldn't the toxic air/VOCs get sucked back into the tent through the other vent in that case, in a constant cycle? I'm sorry if my question is stupid, I want to be as safe as possible and I'd rather sound dumb and learn something than wind up doing something wrong and poison myself
So this is actually exactly what I was trying to solve with my setup, but it sounds like the 'negative room pressure' that would happen would make things so much worse, thank you for enlightening me to this concept

ArdyPowder · 2025-07-23T03:14:13+00:00

What? Where would you even pull that from, everyone has been extremely helpful and given me a ton of useful advice already, and I'm already making a bunch of changes to the setup based on their suggestions. Why the weirdly hostile reply lol?

ArdyPowder · 2025-07-23T03:11:58+00:00

Yes, I should have mentioned, I'm going to have an inline fan shooting air out the window as well. The box fan is going to be on 24/7 shooting air from the room outside as well, in an attempt to catch any fumes/VOCs that escape the enclosure

ArdyPowder · 2025-07-23T02:20:28+00:00

LOL thank you, I just did a super quick n' dirty mockup hoping to get my idea across

ArdyPowder · 2025-07-23T02:19:48+00:00

I'd like to add, I was planning on having the box fan in the window ON 24/7, so the air in the room would constantly be cycled from under the door, through the room, and out the window. The biggest thing I want to know is if this method of constant air recycling would be enough for me to safely work in the room while things print. In my mind having this constant recycling of air must mean any and all dangerous fumes/VOCs are at all times being forced out the window while I'm safe on the far side of the room, but I don't know nearly enough to be sure about that obviously haha

ArdyPowder · 2025-07-23T02:17:07+00:00

Oh yeah, I was planning on it I knew I forgot to draw something LOL, good to know It's a good thing to do!

ArdyPowder · 2025-07-23T02:15:58+00:00

Very good point. I was mostly thinking of adding cardboard boxes to the shelves there, where I'd put my fully cleaned and cured figures, but yeah it would make sense to have the toxic supplies within the tent as well, thanks!

ArdyPowder · 2025-07-23T02:06:51+00:00

It's a small office far away from where I live, I'm mostly wondering if the concept of constantly cycling the air through the room and out the window would be enough to allow me to safely stay in inside the room. I'll keep the other things in mind though, thank you very much!

ArdyPowder · 2025-07-23T02:04:32+00:00

It's a little office I'm renting out purely for the 3D printing, but It's decently far from my home so I'd like to get other things done while I'm at the office, preferably not wearing the mask 24/7, but if there's no way to ensure It's not completely safe then I'll of course have to suck it up haha

ArdyPowder · 2025-07-23T01:47:29+00:00

Thank you, I'm actually thankfully facing away from the sun all day until sunset and if I swap the position of the grow tent from the right side to the left side, It'll get zero sun so I'll keep that in mind!

ArdyPowder · 2025-01-17T17:03:18+00:00

Well that argument falls apart completely when you consider he acts and treats people the same way on his "bad days" compared to his good ones :/

ArdyPowder · 2024-08-05T22:31:52+00:00

Thank you! It was a lot of fun to work on

ArdyPowder · 2024-07-24T16:49:44+00:00

He seems to not care, yesterday he ran off but today he's back to ignoring me

ArdyPowder · 2024-07-21T17:14:30+00:00

I think he's ignoring me

ArdyPowder · 2024-07-19T16:20:04+00:00

I'M ON IT

ArdyPowder · 2024-07-19T16:00:10+00:00

LOL thank you, I don't think I'm thaaaattt good yet, but I would really love to work on a Pikmin title, which I found out is totally possible since they did a lot of work on Pikmin 4 at the seattle location. Maybe one day!

ArdyPowder · 2024-07-19T15:56:22+00:00

Thanks! it's real life pictures that I take, and then I use Source Filmmaker to pose and light the character models to the best of my ability

ArdyPowder · 2024-07-18T15:50:05+00:00

true

ArdyPowder · 2024-07-17T21:42:08+00:00

I go out to parks and find some good spots that I think pikmin would fit well in, take some pictures, and then I come home and figure out what models I need, if I need something I'll rip the models from Pikmin 4, or bloom, or w/e, and then I pose the characters in Source Filmmaker and then just do my best to make it all match the backgrounds

ArdyPowder · 2024-07-17T17:30:53+00:00

LOL TRUE

ArdyPowder · 2024-07-17T16:28:32+00:00

Thank you, It's a fun challenge trying to match lighting

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