Spyke
lemm.ee

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)

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IMALlamareply
lemmy.world

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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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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xenspideyreply
lemmy.zip

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

Edit: its an open source fork of bamboo slicer

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Nilzreply
sopuli.xyz

And Bambu Studio is a fork of PrusaSlicer

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lemm.ee

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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u_tamtamreply
programming.dev

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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xenspideyreply
lemmy.zip

And it's fantastic!

Edit: its actually a fork of bamboo slicer which is a fork of prusa slicer

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

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neclimdulreply
lemmy.world

Appimage doesn't start because it relies on a system package that does exist anymore, dialogs with grey text on grey backgrounds in dark mode, stl repair not included...

Flatpak is in the works but honestly and hope that helps bit I get better prints out of prusaslicer for some reason so not holding my breath or anything.

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neclimdulreply
lemmy.world

Ubuntu but it also affects fedora https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer/issues/185

The image just isn't being built correctly which is more a problem with appimages but the fact it's still broken... Linux is clearly a neglected platform for them.

All the problems I listed have bug reports just nothings happening to fix them.

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Damagereply
feddit.it

I run it on Nobara and Fedora, and I only have occasional graphic glitches with the windows

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Well I have chromium installed, I use it to segregate Google services to a dedicated browser

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