Comment on OrcaSlicer V2.1.0 Official Release

GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• IMALlama@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re four forks deep now Slic3r to Prusa Slicer to Bamboo’s slicer to Orca. It also borrowed a lot of ideas from Super Slicer. Since it’s open source, and has been gaining some momentum, it seems to have a decent amount of contributors

  Why Orca?

  • all the features you know and love from things up the tree
  • a revamped UI
  • built in tuning tests (temp tower, extrusion multiplier, volumetric flow, pressure advance, etc)
  • great Klipper integration if that’s your jam

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  • p1mrx@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    all the features you know and love from things up the tree

    Did OrcaSlicer ever bring back the option to slice automatically when changing settings? It’s called “Background processing” in PrusaSlicer.

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• Grippler@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The UI of Prusa slicer is hot garbage though. I started with prusa slicer and moved to orca after a few months. Orca is a much nicer experience, and the built-in test-models (temp towers etc.) are nice.

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  • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The UI of Prusa slicer is hot garbage though.

    I’m comparing cura and prusa, so prusa wins by a lot. What are you comparing prusa to? Orca?

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    • Grippler@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes

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  • u_tamtam@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The UI of Prusa slicer is hot garbage though.

    I give orca/bambu the edge for “prettier on screenshots”, but in practice, I don’t find their UI paradigm to be more efficient nor convenient.

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    • Grippler@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In find the location and grouping of parameters more intuitive in orca. I always had to look through several tabs to find the parameter I wanted to adjust when I was using prusa, it was never where I thought it should be.

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• xenspidey@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I used to slicer hop around, then i discovered orca. Just the best imho

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  • Nilz@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And Bambi Studio is a fork of PrusaSlicer

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    • xenspidey@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which is a fork of Slic3r

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• rugburn@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Orca slicer is a fork of Prusaslicer

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  • xenspidey@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And it’s fantastic!

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    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fork of a fork of a fork.

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      • xenspidey@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The beauty of open source software

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    • zelifcam@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What are the advantages over Prusa?

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      • xenspidey@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’d say all of the above. Its integration with Kipper is also very good

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• lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s worth giving a try

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