Resin Printing File Validator

[Erock482]

I'd been on and off hunting for a replacement for the old Photon File Validator for use with the new file formats the Photon Mono X used, and stumbled across a solution today that also supports a wide variety of other resin printer file formats.

The software is called UVTools, github link is below.
https://github.com/sn4k3/UVtools

Messing with it today to solve some of the classic phantom triangles that occasionally show up after slicing files in Chitubox, this software seems far more capable than the old photon file validator but I haven't fully explored the feature set enough to see it's full potential.

But, if you are seeing issues that may be caused by missing layers, unsupported islands, or the pesky phantom triangles, this will help you track those down.

[Chris333]

Ever since I updated Chitubox all of my problems went away and no longer needed the validator.

[Erock482]

For the most part that's been my experience as well, however testing some prints that are sloped kicked in some phantom layers. checking back through in SketchUp for possible sources didn't reveal anything obvious to be causing it. so the hunt for alternate solutions began again.

[timwatson]

UV tools is great to reproduce something that worked great before you changed X,Y,Z and now have a screwed up print and you don't know why.
It will show you all your settings in the file and it's really handy if you are rapid fire printing.