Slicer software for a Linux system?

Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨EchoCranium@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨3dprinting@lemmy.world⁩

For those of you running your printers from a Linux PC, what slicer software works for you? I switched from Windows to Kubuntu about 6 weeks ago. Had been using Orca for about 2 years, but the Linux version doesn’t fully function for me. The build plate preview and functions are just a blank page. Trying to link a 3d printer causes Orca to crash. From comments online, there are plenty of people with the same issue and no resolution yet, using various Linux distros. So is anyone having luck with a slicer program using Linux, Wayland, and a nvidia graphics card?

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MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hey, I’ve been running Orca on Ubuntu for months and had that same issue. Try disabling the USB printing module in settings - it’s usually the culprit for these crashes on Wayland. Just go to Preferences > General > uncheck “Enable USB printing” and restart Orca.

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JakoJakoJako13@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Lychee and Cura.

Lychee because I always liked the feature set for supports better than Chitubox.

Cura because I spent a couple days comparing prints side by side with Prusa and my printer liked Cura better. It gave me better prints all around. Prusa needed an endless amount of tweaking. I don’t mind tweaking but at some point enough is enough.

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Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m using Fedora KDE 42 and I found that to run Orca well I had to switch to the flatpak of the nightly builds. It still crashes sometimes, but not very often.

Bambu Studio was stable, but I have ditched it for Orca. I also use Prusa Slicer to run my Klipperized Mk3s. Prusa Slicer has always been rock solid for me no matter the distro or OS.

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AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use orca, ideamaker (for the cr30)

And for resin printing i use chitubox

I think all of them I downloaded the appimage from the repo or their main site.

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- EchoCranium@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I tried both the flatpack and app image options for running Orca, but neither worked for me under Kubuntu.
  
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  - Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Have you tried starting Orca from the command line? It should show the error of a lib you are probably missing.
    
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Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I used Lychee, I haven’t seen it mentioned here and it is very good.

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- Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s a subscription based software. And it appears that it doesn’t much care for my old Nitro 5 laptop and Fedora 42. With 16Gigs of memory and the old 1650 nVidia chipset in it. It really slammed the brakes on.
  
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- EchoCranium@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s one I haven’t heard of. I’ll have to check it out.
  
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John@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
OrcaSlicer has now a Flatpak Version on there Github. I always used Cura but since one year i use Orca

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fluxx@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use cura on Ubuntu without issues, the appimage version. I did also try prusa/super slicer not too long ago and it worked without issues as well.

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OnfireNFS@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use PrusaSlicer from Flathub. I was using PrusaSlicer on Windows before switching to Linux. I’ve been using it since the original Slic3r stopped getting updates. Because it’s available as a flatpak it should work on pretty much any distro and immutable distros

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- BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m using Prusa Slicer as well.
  
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- squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It bugs out on me on Fedora 42. Dropdowns all have graphical glitches making it impossible to read the contents.
  
  Also, PrusaSlicer on Linux doesn’t have the ability to fix broken meshes because apparently they rely on a Windows function for that.
  
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  - OnfireNFS@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Hmm I’m using it on Bazzite, which is based off Fedora 42 atomic. I haven’t really noticed any issues with it, though I haven’t printed anything in awhile. I’m using KDE
    
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- onnekas@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  +1 for PrusaSlicer. It’s great and I like it’s tools for minimal editing of parts: cutting, placing and scaling…
  
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uss_entrepreneur@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use curs and octopus print for my Flashforge creator pro. Works great.

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Faildini@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use Orca on EndeavorOS and it works perfectly. There’s an AUR package for it so it’s simple and well supported (would work as well on anything Arch based).

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- EchoCranium@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That sounds like another possible option. I did see there was an Orca package for Arch; I would like to keep running Orca since I’m used to it, so going with an Arch distro might be the way to go.
  
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StrixUralensis@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For what printer ?

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- EchoCranium@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  My printer is a Ender 3 S1 Pro, running Klipper/Mainsail on a raspberry pi SBC.
  
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  - StrixUralensis@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Maybe try orca in a container
    
    If 1. Doesn't work Prusaslicer (from which orca in indirectly forked from) is great
    Good luck !
    
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philpo@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use Orca,but within a Linuxserver.io container. Which has the advantage that you can use it from a tablet,etc. as well.

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sylver_dragon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The problem you’re seeing is likely related to this bug. There seems to be a lot of overlap in issues with Wayland and slicers. I’m using the AppImage version of the Creality Print slicer, and it suffers the same issue. I have to use the following command line to launch it:
__EGL_VENDOR_LIBRARY_FILENAMES=/usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/50_mesa.json WEBKIT_FORCE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 ~/.local/bin/CrealityPrint_Ubuntu2404-V6.2.1.3044-x86_64-Release.AppImage %F

That’s all on a single line. Ultimately, I created a .desktop file: ~/.local/share/applications/CrealityPrint.desktop
To run the slicer with that command in the EXEC line and everything works fine. Assuming the modified command to launch the slicer works for you, you should be able to create/modify the .desktop file to launch Orca Slicer similarly. Desktop File:

Categories=Utility; Comment= Exec= __EGL_VENDOR_LIBRARY_FILENAMES=/usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/50_mesa.json WEBKIT_FORCE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 ~/.local/bin/CrealityPrint_Ubuntu2404-V6.2.1.3044-x86_64-Release.AppImage %F Icon=CrealityPrint MimeType=model/stl;application/vnd.ms-3mfdocument;application/prs.wavefront-obj;application/x-amf; Name=CrealityPrint NoDisplay=false Path= StartupNotify=true Terminal=false TerminalOptions= Type=Application X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false X-KDE-Username=
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beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Prusa and Cura I’ve used without issue for years. Even my cellar PC from 2012 is running both of them weekly still.

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papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Linux (Mint) and Nvidia GPU here. I use Cura. There is a weird bug where, if you open a file right after the program loads, it will act as if nothing happened (you can open menus, rotate the view etc) for maybe a minute until the model pops up and you can go about your business. Other than that, no issues.

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- Markaos@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You can disable the USB printing module if you don’t use it - that’s the one causing this bug. It should be fixed in the next release.
  
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  - papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Interesting! Thanks for the info
    
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- DavidP@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yep, I’m on Mint too and just live with that bug.
  
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  - papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Someone else replied with a fix! Haven’t tried it myself yet.
    
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BOFH666@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
SuperSlicer

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- Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Is there any new work being done on SuperSlicer? Or is it orphaned yet.
  
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  - BOFH666@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Still releasing new versions and active on discord.
    
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Soapbox@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use Cura and a flash drive with my newer printer. But with my old printer that required being tethered (a Solidoodle2 from 2012) I was using MatterControl, as it was much easier and more reliable than Pronterface which came with the printer.

Though, the old PC I was using struggled when I did anything else on it while it was running the printer. The print speed would actually slow down or occasionally stop when loading a heavy webpage in a browser, for example.

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pro_user@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t run Linux , but I love Prusaslicer and it is available for Linux: flathub.org/apps/com.prusa3d.PrusaSlicer

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ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Huh, I have not had any issues with orca slicer on Linux Mint at all, I’ve been using it exclusively for over a year now. Haven’t had issues linking my printer via WiFi either, I just put the IP and port and it worked right away.

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- EchoCranium@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Good to know Mint might be an option. I’ve used it before, could check it out again. I ran it on a Frankenstein’s monster of really old computer parts I cobbled together as a PC for my work room. Mainly just to stream music and reference videos online while doing projects.
  
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forgedchaos@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This was the only way I found to get it to work. old.reddit.com/…/linux_tutorial_on_how_to_get_a_r…

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- EchoCranium@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks for the link. If Orca will run fine under Ubuntu, I may just switch over to that instead. I’m not hugely invested in Kubuntu yet, so it won’t be painful to do. Installing Ubuntu inside a Docker container inside of Kubuntu, just to run Orca, seems too matryoshka-ish for me.
  
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schmaker@schmaker.eu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@EchoCranium Exactly same thing happened to me when I tried to use AnyCubic slicer, that did not had Linux build, but only Windows binary installer. AnyCubic slicer is fork of Orca.
Are you sure you are using Linux version of the slicer?
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- EchoCranium@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yep, downloaded the flatpack from Ubuntu repository. Sounds like folks are having similar issues with Orca, Cura, possibly Prusa if I remember what I read correctly. Since AnyCubic is a fork from Orca, not surprised it’s plagued with the same problems.
  
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  - schmaker@schmaker.eu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    @EchoCranium Native Orca from flatpak just works for me
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