All slicers, including bambu-studio (which, as a fork of prusa-slicer, is open source) work by loading .stl files from any source, so yes. You can also techniclaay use any slicer, and no network at all, if you put .gcode files on the printer’s sd card. Not convenient, but functional. But again, bamu-studio works great
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bowreality@lemmy.ca 17 hours agoWhat about software? Locked in? Can you design anywhere and load to print or do you have to design in their software?
alx@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 15 hours ago
All your design work would be outside their software (Fusion, Solidworks, Tinkercad, etc). You would then export to a 3mf (native) or stl and then import that into the slicer program (this is where the “walled garden” starts). That translates it to gcode that the printer then uses, almost like a backwards CNC.