• GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eeMEnglish
    11·
    5 months ago

    Can someone give me a brief intro to orca slicer? Who is it made by and what’s it’s quirk?

    For example prusa slicer, made by prusa, prioritizes user interface and has powerful almost modeling features (text, cutting etc)

    • IMALlama@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      5 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
      • p1mrx@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        5 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.

    • xenspidey@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

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

      Edit: its an open source fork of bamboo slicer

    • Grippler@feddit.dkEnglish
      81·
      5 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.

      • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eeMEnglish
        5·
        5 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?

      • u_tamtam@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        5 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.

        • Grippler@feddit.dkEnglish
          1·
          5 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.