Hi everyone!

I’m curious to know which slicer you guys use.

I’ve been using the Creality slicer, but it seems like it pretty consistently crashes, and I’ve tried Cura but the print seemed stringy despite using the same settings.

How are Orca or Prusa?

  • @[email protected]
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    2 years ago

    Another OrcaSlicer user here. Started off with PrusaSlicer and switched over at a friend’s recommendation, and honestly am so glad I did (it has a much nicer UI and some really neat features ported over from SuperSlicer).

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    22 years ago

    I’ve only used cura (no particular reason, just what was shown to me and I now know how to use it

    However, I’ve heard good things about both prusa and klipper

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    2 years ago

    SLA: Lychee free version bc fuck renting licenses

    FDM: prusa slicer bc open source ftw

    • Fubarberry
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      62 years ago

      I had some issues early on with Cura and switched to Prusa, and it’s always worked well for me.

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    52 years ago

    Cura, I’ve gone back to Prusa periodically but it has too many features hidden behind simple buttons or percentage sliders for me.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      I used Cura about 5 years ago and my experience then was actually the inverse, especially in regards to slicing settings. There were tons of settings buried all over the GUI and you really had to dig for them.

      I used KISSSlicer for a while and got into PrusaSlicer. They all seem to have their struggles from time to time. Maybe I’ll try out Cura again the next time I run into a wall.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        By default all the settings are hidden, it’s annoying, but you can show all of them in the settings and then it has a bunch more that I can find equivalents to in Prusa.

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    I use Cura for no reason other than it’s simply the most popular, and easiest to find help with 🤷

    Also Prusa only provides an AppImage, which is incredibly inconvenient.

      • Rolivers
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        22 years ago

        Basically an executable package of an entire application for Linux. It doesn’t integrate with package managers meaning you’ll have to update it manually.

    • WFH
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      42 years ago

      There’s also a community built Flatpak if you’re ok with that

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        Welp. I see it now but when I looked it up through Gnome software, it showed me nothing. Guess I should know better by now.

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    42 years ago

    I’ve almost always used PrusaSlicer just because the only printers I had access to were mk3s+.

    I’ve started playing with Cura though because A. i wanted some more complex prints that PrusaSlicer struggled to support, and B. We also got some creality cr-30’s functional at my college again. So far I still feel Prusa is easier but that’s likely just familiarity.

  • Rolivers
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    12 years ago

    Cura but only because I haven’t tried the others yet.