I don’t use it for… reasons, but I suspect orcaslicer has picked up a lot of what made superslicer special, and is actively maintained.
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IMALlama@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I share your general sentiment about fusion. I’ve been avoiding FOSS CAD for the reasons you laid out, but I am somewhat tempted to give this a try. I wonder how well maintained it will be over time…
After I built my Voron I started using SuperSlicer, which is a fork of PrusaSlicer, which is itself a fork of Slic3r. SuperSlicer has some pretty nice features and I like the way it slices models, but it’s also a bit flakey at times. Going from GitHub activity, it’s only maintained by a single dev and they’re only able to work on the project sporadically every few months.
u_tamtam@programming.dev 11 months ago
IMALlama@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What slicer do you personally use?
u_tamtam@programming.dev 11 months ago
I use the original, prusaslicer. Orcaslicer does a good job of packaging and releasing bambulab’s fork but I’m not yet convinced that their UI is a net win, it’s super glitchy at times (at least on Linux), depends on closed-source Bambu features (network plugin), has features missing (fix model only available on windows) and is easy to fault (you can easily let it do stupid things because of combination of options developers didn’t foresee). That said, it’s compelling prusaslicer to give its UX some polish and to backport some advanced features, so this competition is good and no option is inferior or feels like you are missing out in practice.
IMALlama@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thanks for the feedback. I think I’ll make a run at getting PrusaSlicer well tuned on this printer. I had used PrusaSlicer for quite some time on my i3 clone, so I’m pretty familiar with it. I’m generally happy with SuperSlicer, but it struggles with things like 45% overhangs that are cone shaped and PrusaSlicer handles those with ease. My first PrusaSlicer print on this printer had tons of top layer gaps om narrower features. Before digging in, I was thinking about what slicer I should spent the time on. Time to go back to basics.
xenspidey@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Not OP but orcaslicer is very nice, it’s my daily driver for sure
kizzard@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I also used SuperSlicer until I recently tried OrcaSlicer and was very impressed. The developer of SuperSlicer recently quit his job to work on it full time though, so I imagine it will start to catch up in features soon.