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I bet you printed this huge thing flat in the build plate?
Not the OP, but what do you mean by this? I feel there's an implication that it should be laid out a different way?
Contrary to fdm printing, resin printing doesn't like large xy cross-sections because that means huge forces between the part and the fep.
This suction and pulling can lead to delamination of layers.
You typically want to angle parts and spam a bunch of supports. Which really is usually the opposite of what you wanna do on an fdm printer.
Ah, I did not pick up on this being a resin printer. Thanks for the info, I'm not too aware on the tech behind resin