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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?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

PrusaSlicer. I like the settings better. It's a good slicer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Preach, best of all worlds

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Another vote for prusa here. The recently added organic supports are really awesome. It’s enabled me to print some things I previously would not have attempted.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Prusa slicer, partially because I have a mk3s+ but also because I tried to use cura many times but always several minutes into using it, my entire laptop just shuts off, like the power was pulled, no logs written to disk, no error message. It's the only program to do that and I can't even report an issue because there's no logs I can submit. I assume it's related to taxing my GPU in a way that causes a power related fault.

[–] na_th_an 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used Cura for a few years, then I tried Prusa and my print quality dramatically improved for reasons I have not figured out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Haha this is exactly my experience. Pusaslicer/superslicer just make such better prints for me and I have no idea why. Despite putting so much effort into my Cura settings, Prusa just prints better out of the box with so little effort.

[–] DefiantBidet 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

SLA: Lychee free version bc fuck renting licenses

FDM: prusa slicer bc open source ftw

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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).

[–] ZagamTheVile 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] BOFH666 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

SuperSlicer, nightly builds from GitHub.

[–] IMALlama 1 points 11 months ago

Nightly builds with commits that happen sporadically every few months it seems 😭.

That said, it looks like some action happened since my last build. I'll have to see if the cone slicing thing is fixed...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] IMALlama 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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] 4 points 11 months 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.

[–] callcc 4 points 11 months ago

Cura and my self programmed vase mode slicer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Prusaslicer

[–] EMPig 3 points 11 months ago

Cura. Works for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Whichever one works. I switch between Cura and PS. I'm not skilled enough to figure out the differences. I make small adjustments here and there, but IDK what I'm doing. My last print had over extrusion on the top surface, but not the walls, so I switched from Cura to PS and it works now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Cura has always been my go-to because we used it back in my high school drafting class and I haven't tried anything else since then...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] astropenguin5 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] roofuskit 6 points 11 months ago

Klipper is not a slicer. It's a replacement firmware for the printer.

[–] Sir_Fridge 1 points 11 months ago

Prusaslicer. For resin I combine it with UVtools

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Makerware. Been trying cura but it's not cooperating with my printer entirely.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago

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