I Switched 3D Printing Slicers & You Should Too

"Calibration tests nobody did before"... Superslicer: "Am I joke to you?"

I have used both SuperSlicer and OrcaSlicer, and am now using the beta version of PrusaSlicer 2.6 for all the new features, including organic supports. Both SuperSlicer and OrcaSlicer benefit from all the development work done by the Prusa software team. They are also each maintained and updated by a single person. In the case of SuperSlicer, updates have slowed down. Just remember if you invest in converting your profiles and workflow to forks that don't have the stability of a company like Prusa backing them, you are depending on a single person for maintenance, updating, and bug fixes.

I guess you've convinced me to give it a try. I've spent my 4+ years printing all on PrusaSlicer and the largest inconvenience was learning how to set up any calibration test prints. The positive of course being that I was forced to learn more about G-code and how my printer "thinks" but I love the pre-designed ability for those newer to printing who could most use the fine-tuning a full calibration suite can give you.

installing orca right away:) my first 3d printer in house, so im super greatful for your informative videoes...

I was waiting for this video so much. Finally can watch it 🤩

After years of My Trusty(And Highly modded)CR10… I Finally picked up a Core xy… Figure it’s Time to give Orca a shot as well… Thanks for taking the time to the Document. 🤙🏻

Yep. I made the switch from Cura 5.4 and Prusa 2.6 to Orca Slicer for my Flsun V400. It works great!

Only reason I use SuperSlicer over PrusaSlicer is because of SuperSlicers built in calibrations (which is where Orca must have gained the inspiration from). Definitely keen to give Orca a try!

Switched to OrcaSlicer a few weeks ago and haven’t looked back. Bambu studio used to crash a lot on Mac but Orca is much more stable. Calibration test, custom nozzle size setting (for aftermarket hotends) and more advanced controls makes it the best slicer for a bambu lab printer, especially the P1P

Going to have to check this out. Thanks for the video!

Damn, the octoprint integration and calibration prints sold me. I downloaded and will try it from now on. Thanks!

If you have an Ender series printer, Cura along with CHEP's extra fast profile is a game changer. It cuts printing time in half with little loss of quality

I know this video is old but this slicer for me at least is already better then what i was using now that i am more knowledgeable about what my printer needs to do! thank you so much !!!

how does it handle detail? when i slice with cura and bambu i can't get all the details i have in my model, but in the creality print it shows all the details in the model, it's just not compatible with with the carbon.

My current favourite slicer is SuperSlicer. It has many of the features of Orca slicer, like the calibration prints, while still having a the user interface structured like prusa slicer which I personally prefer over the layout in Cura or Orca slicer.

Two thoughts on OrcaSlicer: 1) I tried OrcaSlicer a tiny bit and came away unimpressed. Scenario: I'm at work, looking to slice a few files to print at home because I want to add some custom text and it's frankly easier to do it here than it is in Tinkercad. I configure the slicer for my Ender 3, edit a few of the default settings to account for my mods/upgrades, slap some text on my design, and notice that a brim is enabled by default. Strange, but it seems easy enough to just go with a skirt like normal...and then my print had both a skirt and a brim. Rather than struggle to get the slicer to do one of the more basic things in 3D printing, I just sucked it up and added text in Tinkercad. 2) There is a downside to a slicer fork being maintained by one person, and we're seeing that in real time with SuperSlicer: when the person driving the bus gives up for one reason or another, that's it...the project is dead. If SoftFever gets hit by a bus tomorrow, who takes over? Major development in SuperSlicer seems to have died out last September, with only one beta release since then and little to no updating going on with issues or pull requests since April. I'm now glad I dragged my feet on getting set up in SuperSlicer, and because of that experience I'd rather stick with trusty Cura than go down the "lone developer" route again.

Hey I’m having trouble setting up 0.6 no sale in Cura prints are terrible on my 2 kobra2 printers are you still using orca ? I might give this a try

how did you copy your settings from prusaslicer to orcaslicer?

I can't figure out how to get my computer to recognize that I want to open in orca after switching. Can you help? I'm not even able to use it!!!

I found several links for ORCA Slicer, which one is the best one to use (Download from)?