UVtools

MSLA/DLP, file analysis, repair, conversion and manipulation

This simple tool can give you insight of supports and find some failures. Did you forget what resin or other settings you used on a project? This can also save you, check every setting that were used with or simply change them!

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/uvtools

Why this project?

I don't own a Prusa SL1 or any other resin printer, for now I’m only a FDM user with Prusa MK3 and a Ender3. PrusaSlicer is my only choose, why? Because I think it's the best and feature more, at least for me, simple but powerful.

So why this project? Well in fact I’m looking for a resin printer and i like to study and learn first before buy, get good and don't regret, and while inspecting i found that resin printers firmwares are not as universal as FDM, too many file formats and there before each printer can use their own property file, this of course limit the software selection, for example, only PrusaSlicer can slice SL1 files. So with that in mind i'm preparing when I got some resin printer in future I can use PrusaSlicer instead of others. I've explored the other slicers and again, no one give me joy, and i feel them unstable, many users slice model on PrusaSlicer just to get those supports and export stl to load in another, that means again PrusaSlicer is on the win side, the problem is they can't slice directly on PrusaSlicer, so, in the end, my project aims to do almost that, configure a printer on PrusaSlicer, eg: EPAX X1, slice, export file, convert SL1 to native printer file and print.

Please note i don't have any resin printer! All my work is virtual and calculated, so, use experimental functions with care! Once things got confirmed a list will show. But also, i need victims for test subject. Proceed at your own risk!

Features

View image layer by layer
View and extract thumbnails
View all used settings
Edit print properties and save file
Mutate and filter layers
Check islands and repair/remove them as other issues
Export file to a folder
Convert format to another format
Portable (No installation needed)

Known Formats

SL1 (PrusaSlicer)
Zip (Chitubox)
Photon (Chitubox)
Photons (Chitubox) [Read-only]
CBDDLP (Chitubox)
CBT (Chitubox)
PHZ (Chitubox)
PWS (Photon Workshop)
PW0 (Photon Workshop)
PWX (Photon Workshop) [Not confirmed]
PWMO (Photon Workshop) [Not confirmed]
PWMS (Photon Workshop) [Not confirmed]
PWMX (Photon Workshop) [Not confirmed]
ZCodex (Z-Suite)
CWS (NovaMaker)
LGS (Longer Orange 10)
LGS30 (Longer Orange 30)
UVJ (Zip file for manual manipulation format)
Image files (png, jpg, jpeg, gif, bmp)

Available printers for PrusaSlicer

EPAX E6 Mono
EPAX E10 Mono
EPAX X1
EPAX X10
EPAX X10 4K Mono
EPAX X133 4K Mono
EPAX X156 4K Color
EPAX X1K 2K Mono
Zortrax Inkspire
Nova3D Elfin
Nova3D Bene4 Mono
AnyCubic Photon
AnyCubic Photon S
AnyCubic Photon Zero
Elegoo Mars
Elegoo Mars 2 Pro
Elegoo Mars C
Elegoo Saturn
Peopoly Phenom
Peopoly Phenom L
Peopoly Phenom Noir
QIDI Shadow5.5
QIDI Shadow6.0 Pro
QIDI S-Box
Phrozen Shuffle
Phrozen Shuffle Lite
Phrozen Shuffle XL
Phrozen Shuffle XL Lite
Phrozen Shuffle 16
Phrozen Shuffle 4K
Phrozen Sonic
Phrozen Sonic 4K
Phrozen Sonic Mighty 4K
Phrozen Sonic Mini
Phrozen Sonic Mini 4K
Phrozen Transform
Kelant S400
Wanhao D7
Wanhao D8
Creality LD-002R
Creality LD-002H
Creality LD-006
Voxelab Polaris
Voxelab Proxima
Longer Orange 10
Longer Orange 30
Longer Orange4K

Available profiles for PrusaSlicer

Universal 0.1 Fast - Heavy Supports
Universal 0.1 Fast - Medium Supports
Universal 0.05 Normal - Heavy Supports
Universal 0.05 Normal - Medium Supports
Universal 0.035 Detail - Heavy Supports
Universal 0.035 Detail - Medium Supports
Universal 0.025 UltraDetail - Heavy Supports
Universal 0.025 UltraDetail - Medium Supports

Install and configure profiles under PrusaSlicer

Download and install PrusaSlicer from: https://www.prusa3d.com/prusaslicer/
Start and configure PrusaSlicer (Wizard)
- Choose SL1 printer
Close PrusaSlicer
Open UVtools if not already
- Under Menu click -> Help -> Install profiles into PrusaSlicer
Open PrusaSlicer and check if profiles are there
To clean up interface remove printers that you will not use (OPTIONAL)
Duplicate and/or create your printer and tune the values if required
Look up under "Printer -> Notes" and configure parameters to the target slicer
Change only the value after the "_" (underscore)

Custom "Printer Notes" keywords

FLIP_XY Flip X with Y resolution, this is required in some cases, it will not affect Prusa output, only used for convertions to another format, use this if you have to use inverted XY under printer settings (Epax for example).

File Convertion

I highly recommend open the converted file into original slicer and check if it's okay to print, on this beta stage never blind trust the program. After some tests without failure you can increase your confidence and ignore this stage, or maybe not ;)

Requirements

Windows

Windows 7 or greater
1. If on Windows 10 N or NK: Media Feature Pack must be installed
.NET Framework 4.8 installed (Comes pre-installed on Windows 10 with last updates)
4GB RAM or higher

Linux

4GB RAM or higher
64 bit System

Ubuntu/Mint/Debian/Similars

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libgeotiff-dev libdc1394-22 libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libopenexr24 libtbb-dev

Arch/Manjaro/Similars

sudo pacman -S openjpeg2 libjpeg-turbo libpng libgeotiff libdc1394 libdc1394 ffmpeg openexr tbb dotnet-runtime

To run UVtools open it folder on a terminal and call one of:

Double-click UVtools file
./UVtools
dotnet UVtools.dll [For universal package only]
sh UVtools.sh [For universal package only]
As a pratical alternative you can create a shortcut on Desktop

Mac

macOS 10.12 Sierra
1. If on a previous macOS version, use the universal UVtools package
4GB RAM or higher

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
brew analytics off
brew cask install dotnet

To run UVtools open it folder on a terminal and call one of:

Double-click UVtools file
./UVtools
dotnet UVtools.dll [For universal package only]
sh UVtools.sh [For universal package only]
As a pratical alternative you can create a shortcut on Desktop

How to use

There are multiple ways to open your file:

Open UVtools and load your file (CTRL + O) (File -> Open)
Open UVtools and drag and drop your file inside window
Drag and drop file into UVtools.exe
Set UVtools the default program to open your files

Library -> Developers

Are you a developer? This project include a .NET Standard library (UVtools.Core) that can be referenced in your application to make use of my work. Easy to use calls that allow you work with the formats. For more information navigate main code.

TODO

More file formats
Clean up (always)
See features request under Github

Support my work / Donate

All my work here is given for free (OpenSource), it took some hours to build, test and polish the program. If you're happy to contribute for a better program and for my work i will appreciate the tip.

PP: https://paypal.me/SkillTournament

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