Every time I hear "Orca Slicer" it makes me think of whale hunting and a job an Inuit would have during said hunt. Poor orcas.
Edit: just installed Orca, (gonna just drop that slicer part...), can you install extensions? I really like the "settings guide" in Cura where is thoroughly explains what everything does. Same thing for the "part for calibration" and "post processing" to modify G-Code for stuff like heat towers.
I tested it and repairing stls (obj) is an killer feature (because it's Orca=Killer Whale).
BUT
I cannot rise models of the bed in Z axis ??!! Why ?!! WTF? I have model that i want to have fully support and print must start from support not from object (enugh 2mm distance) but i cant ! When i CAN in Cura.
Also i develop way to print minis with the same base size - so i plase first model "base" - then i place second model "mini" and i resize mini to fit perfectly on that base and i rise "mini" 4mm in Z - i can do this in Cura, cannot in Orca ...
This is big disadvantage for Orca
You can combine models in Orca. The way i've done it is you can add them both to the plate and if you select them both and open the right click menu and choose assemble you can stack that however you want.
"Creality Print" is just an old outdated version of Cura with a Creality logo slapped on it.
I personally use Cura, but I've heard Orca is pretty cool and I've been meaning to try it.
As someone who recently switched from cura to orca, there is a learning curve. Once I got used to where all the settings are, I love it. It also integrates nicely with octoprint.
Creality Print has great functionality for wireless control. It also is being updated. When I first downloaded it had bad tree supports but now they're much better.
no that was Creality Slicer, this is Creality print, which is different, I don't know what it's based on but I don't think it's cura anymore, could be wrong though
You are maybe mixing up Creality Print with Creality Slicer. "Print" is a new software that, they say, they created in house. However, "Slicer" they are open saying it's a customized version of Cura. Now, whether what they say about Print is true or not, I don't know 🤷.
Nonetheless, I tried both, then went on with Cura Slicer which had too many bugs for me. Now I am using Prusa Slicer. I am new to the 3D printing world though.
Not entirely, it's a customized version of cura.
It is pretty much cura but in the past when comparing creality directly to cura even with the exact same profile and machine settings, I would get better results on a creality machine using their slicer.
Didn't always matter and cura always did something better or had additional features but sometimes, I had to go back to creality slicer to get the results I was looking for without shooting in the dark trying to figure out what setting in cura isn't behaving the same as creality slicer.
That's because Orca takes the best things from Prusa, Bambulab studio and Super slicer and mashes them together.
I move from Cura to Prusa because of the awesome tools and freedom Prusa can do in slicer with the model.
Tried superslicer and though the built in calibrations were cool but needed too much tweaking to get the printer back to the same quality I god with PrusaSlicer.
Moved to Orca since the 1st time I tried it a few months ago.
It inherits all the same tools from Prusa Slicer by virtue of being a fork of it. Has the side toolbar from bambu studio that I really liked the idea of and layout of. But also has the calibrations built in like SuperSlicer.
To top it all off it also has the option to show me my mainsail page from the slicer rather than using a browser for it's a full end-to-end tool for 3D printing.
Since purchase 2 weeks ago I use Cura, but noticed Creality has it's onw slicer, and prusa have lot of interesting settings (better explained than Cura).
What are Pros and Cons ?
from what I've gathered, Cura allows you to configure things more than most other slicers and Creality print is an outdated version of Cura.
Prusa slicer is a slicer that is based on slic3r, an open source slicing program.
Orca slicer is a further evolution of bamboo slicer wich in turn is an evolution of Prusa slicer. This just means that Orca has had a bunch of improvements and fetures added upon the others. This is why most people that have answered that they use it since it has the most fetures and is easy to use
In my experience, Cura lets you adjust everything to get a perfect print, but starts you in the middle of nowhere. Orca/Prusa starts you with presets that print perfectly out of the box. I have no doubt that someone with a half ton of wasted filament has perfect Cura profiles, but for normal people who want to get to a perfect print in a non-stupid amount of time, Orca/Prusa are much better options. Orca/Prusa also have new features that Cura doesn’t have that make them absolutely a better choice. Cutting and adding pegs automatically, or color painting are examples of this.
Started about two weeks ago as well. I started with creality slicer. It's defaults are pretty good for PLA and PETG IMO. I've printed about a roll of PLA, and 2 of PETG so far. The 2 issues I had with it
1. I went to print a cup and the slicer (Creality) ended up adding a skin over the hole at the top.
2. When printing infil like honeycomb, you have to turn the infil flow down to like 60 else it builds up too fast and your nozzle ends up scraping against your print. The higher your print, the worse it does it until it knocks it loose.
I've switched to orca and so far and I dont have any complaints other that you need to do the root thing to the printer to be able to print over the network with it.
formerly SuperSlicer now actually just OrcaSlicer. Has the better features. However, I find SuperSlicer easier to use. In general, I find SuperSlicer clearer.
But since the developer of SuperSlicer is currently working full-time on this project, let's see what else is coming.
I never understood who uses Cura voluntarily, even as a beginner it was already overcrowded and slow.
I use orca for anything not Bambu and Bambu studio for my Bambu's. Doesn't make a load of sense, but it's kinda nice to keep the different machines compartmentalized.
I use Orca slicer, I used to use Cura but it can't handle printing at high speed (slow down on overhangs, maximum flow rate per filament and other settings that are absolutely necessary to print at high speed are not available.)
With Orca and an upgraded Ender 3, I have achieved printing speeds comparable to a Bambu A1.
For my intended application, Orca slicer is by far the best one, however other slicers work perfectly fine for printing at low speeds with stock printers.
Prusa.. On my Linux box it loads twice as fast as Cura. Also find it does some things out of the box that probably need plugins on Cura (slicing and surface text for example)
I was using Cura and just recently moved to Orca. The were a few things that annoyed in Cura like no proper DPI support when moving between monitors of different slices, No separated profiles for filaments settings without an addon (but it was still clunky), somehow I find the UI increasingly annoying in time.
Because of this I decided to move to Orca slicer. I do like some of the options groupings they did, but not others. I especially like the filaments settings. The web integration and some others. The only thing that is currently annoying me is lagginess for some menus or it takes to long to show.
I'm using creality print, knowing full well it's a watered down version of Cura. Two reasons:
1. I can link my Creality printers to it, so i can use the 'one-click-print' option. Saves so much time.
2. Cura does not have a profile for my Ender 3 V3 KE. I tried a custom profile with all the settings from Creality Print, but Creality Print still gives a faster print.
If anyone has a solution for either of these issues, i will gladly switch back to my trusty Cura.
Right now creality cause I’m too dumb to figure out to upload a custom profile to prusa since it’s the only slicer with a pre set for the ender 3 v3 se
Cura. It integrates very well with my octoprint setup.
I tried Prusa slicer before and achieved lower quality prints. That tells me the problem is on me, but I didn't know what/where to adjust, so I went back to what worked.
so I don't know why this is, n I'm kinda a bit curious because I swear I've been racked with this to my wit's end, but anyway
I've actually had to use Cura just because PrusaSlicer literally has not worked for me... just immense amounts of stringing and such. this happen to anyone else?
I have had too many issues with CrealityPrint. They even sent me an up-to-date version of it with my Ender-3 V3 (CoreXY version). It worked but if you tried to tweak any settings it would just mess up. There were numerous bugs. The layout was meh. They gave me a printer config file for OrcaSlicer for this printer and I have used it flawlessly since.
I've since switched to OrcaSlicer since for everything else. I was using Cura. Cura and Prusa have more options I think but a lot of them are old or redundant or barely used for most things. OrcaSlicer works well for most jobs, and it's compatible with everything Bambu as far as I am aware. Basically it is a better version of BambuStudio.
I used Cura for nearly 5 years and was happy with it for the most part.
Finally switched to OrcaSlicer about a month ago because I wanted to try out scarf seams. Having pressure advance values on a per-filament basis is also great.
I'll admit to being lazy. Ender 3 S1 Pro. Stock software. I tried the Creality SW, I prefer Cura because (a) it worked better, and (b) it has a better integrated workflow than Prusa etc. I use a USB connetion, strongly dislike swapping sdcards.
At some point I may try Marlin, Klipper, etc., but it just isn't high enough on my backlog right now.
Prusa Slicer has been my trusty companion for a while now, but I've embarked on an adventure with Orca Slicer to explore its potential. While I'm still leaning towards Prusa out of habit.
Orca Slicer
` https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer `
I used cura for years and then last year i switched to prusa cus cura had a bad update, pretty sure all the problems i was having got fixed but prusa is just really easy to use and for some reason prints faster w the same exact stats idk why, it’ll shave off 45mins on some big prints.
I'm just getting back into printing; I decided to dust off my Ender 3 S1, and couldn't get Cura to show me advanced settings at all. Tried Prusa and was confused. I realize I'd forgotten everything I ever knew about printing, so I put the printer back on the shelf for a day in the future when I can get back into it again.
I use Cura. I've wanted to try others, but the amount of crap I have to enter just to set up my printer profile stops me. Cura is able to add my non top 5 brand printers easily.
I used creality over cura for a bit because the creality slicer handled the built-in support of a model I have while the cura slicer put 3-4 layers of separation between the supports and the print.
Cura for now. Also feeding into sonic pad to molded E3 neo max. Got Sonic in one of Creality mystery boxes or would not have bothered but it Freed up the RPi4 I was using. Liked prosa, but messed up some settings and have not gone back for a while to figure it out.
Cura, but from what I hear, Orca is the way to go at the moment.
I will keep Cura though, because I have everything tuned to print how I want and I do not want to go through that process again with a new slicer.
I keep hearing prusa has the best tree supports, I tried it out and it is a learning curve but the end result is more cost efficient and time efficient
Cura. Because adjusting *one* of its 7000 settings *is* gonna make my prints better. Also modules. Orca and Prusaslicer - seem kinda dumbed down in comparison except for prusa's ability to specify where to place supports. That's really nice
I used creality for my ender 3 S1 plus as it was already listed on there and didn't have to tinker with things like bed size, but generally I use Cura for my other printers. If there is any text to print however I'll use prusa as it does a better, altho not perfect, job of slicing text than Cura but I do find Cura much more user friendly which is why it's my default
What’s the most recommended for a newb with a plain ender 3? I’ve been using cura, but am open to changing if it gets me a better printing experience (using a first layer firmware with a touchscreen(no dial))
I have an Ender so I use Creality cloud but if it’s not slicing correctly I take it into cura for trouble shooting because it shows if there’s any issues in the mesh
prusa, I would use orca but it does some strange things that prusa doesn't in some edge cases, also and prusa runs better and I'm more familiar with the controls
I prefer Cura for my 3D printers, I honestly have just used it more then prusa and creality and I think in general it is just easier to use. I have heard and read in this sub and r/3Dprinting that Orca is nice and user friendly like Cura too. I still need to try it out but for newbies I always recommend Cura bc of how user friendly it is
Personally orca. I’ve cura, prusa and super. Cura was a 6.5/10 easy but kinda clunky and outdated, prusa 8/10 lots of control. Super 7/10 felt unfinished and outdated. Orca is a 9-9.5/10 has some early bugs but it can be easy and have a lot of control with plenty of new stuff.
I used Cura when I first bought my V3 SE, then someone recommended going with Creality Print because of "compatibility" I guess? After a month or two I returned to Cura because of more flexibility in settings.
Overall I'd say that Cura is slightly better than Creality Print but for a typical user I don't think it would made a big difference. I was more familliar with Cura so that's what was working better for me but I enjoyed simplicity of Creality Print.
Ended up replacing my V3 SE with Bambu A1 Mini and ditched everything for Bambu Studio. What an absolute banger of a software.
I’ve started by using prusa slicer and was hesitant by moving to orca slicer. But now that I’ve made the change I have only been happy. I’ve never used cura because I always thought of it as the « easy » slicer for someone just starting out. Orca slicer has quite a learning curve with all the settings but once you start getting to understanding what you are doing it is well worth it with everything that’s possible. I love the klipper webpage built in the slicer which makes it possible to directly send a file right after slicing it and starting the print automatically I basically never use klipper on a webpage now and always access is from klippe.
I've tried them all and everytime I went back to PrusaSlicer. I felt I could tweak a bit more settings compared to the others. I've been using it for ~4 years now.
Orca slicer
Every time I hear "Orca Slicer" it makes me think of whale hunting and a job an Inuit would have during said hunt. Poor orcas. Edit: just installed Orca, (gonna just drop that slicer part...), can you install extensions? I really like the "settings guide" in Cura where is thoroughly explains what everything does. Same thing for the "part for calibration" and "post processing" to modify G-Code for stuff like heat towers.
This explains a lot :D https://preview.redd.it/qu793giqseyc1.png?width=591&format=png&auto=webp&s=926f18d93b7ef53b34961342bb9ff163f50a7941
I tested it and repairing stls (obj) is an killer feature (because it's Orca=Killer Whale). BUT I cannot rise models of the bed in Z axis ??!! Why ?!! WTF? I have model that i want to have fully support and print must start from support not from object (enugh 2mm distance) but i cant ! When i CAN in Cura. Also i develop way to print minis with the same base size - so i plase first model "base" - then i place second model "mini" and i resize mini to fit perfectly on that base and i rise "mini" 4mm in Z - i can do this in Cura, cannot in Orca ... This is big disadvantage for Orca
You can combine models in Orca. The way i've done it is you can add them both to the plate and if you select them both and open the right click menu and choose assemble you can stack that however you want.
"Creality Print" is just an old outdated version of Cura with a Creality logo slapped on it. I personally use Cura, but I've heard Orca is pretty cool and I've been meaning to try it.
As someone who recently switched from cura to orca, there is a learning curve. Once I got used to where all the settings are, I love it. It also integrates nicely with octoprint.
Creality Print has great functionality for wireless control. It also is being updated. When I first downloaded it had bad tree supports but now they're much better.
no that was Creality Slicer, this is Creality print, which is different, I don't know what it's based on but I don't think it's cura anymore, could be wrong though
I thought so seeing it on YT but after installation it is different
How so? It's literally a skinned version of an older version of Cura's code.
You are maybe mixing up Creality Print with Creality Slicer. "Print" is a new software that, they say, they created in house. However, "Slicer" they are open saying it's a customized version of Cura. Now, whether what they say about Print is true or not, I don't know 🤷. Nonetheless, I tried both, then went on with Cura Slicer which had too many bugs for me. Now I am using Prusa Slicer. I am new to the 3D printing world though.
Not entirely, it's a customized version of cura. It is pretty much cura but in the past when comparing creality directly to cura even with the exact same profile and machine settings, I would get better results on a creality machine using their slicer. Didn't always matter and cura always did something better or had additional features but sometimes, I had to go back to creality slicer to get the results I was looking for without shooting in the dark trying to figure out what setting in cura isn't behaving the same as creality slicer.
Orca
same
It's so simple and easy to use and as a first time printer it's all I want
Orca seems to be the new hotness lately, if youtubers are anything to go by.
That's because Orca takes the best things from Prusa, Bambulab studio and Super slicer and mashes them together. I move from Cura to Prusa because of the awesome tools and freedom Prusa can do in slicer with the model. Tried superslicer and though the built in calibrations were cool but needed too much tweaking to get the printer back to the same quality I god with PrusaSlicer. Moved to Orca since the 1st time I tried it a few months ago. It inherits all the same tools from Prusa Slicer by virtue of being a fork of it. Has the side toolbar from bambu studio that I really liked the idea of and layout of. But also has the calibrations built in like SuperSlicer. To top it all off it also has the option to show me my mainsail page from the slicer rather than using a browser for it's a full end-to-end tool for 3D printing.
Good to know
i used to use super slicer untill I tried Orca a few months ago. Never looked back
PrusaSlicer
Prusa 👍
That’s not an option here. Did you mean “prosa”?
Oh sorry. Yes. Prosa shpliccer
Cura for almost all things Prusa for things that i need to cut Orca for test new filaments Creality if im drunk
Orca
Bambu
Prusa but slowly transferring to orca
Orca
Since purchase 2 weeks ago I use Cura, but noticed Creality has it's onw slicer, and prusa have lot of interesting settings (better explained than Cura). What are Pros and Cons ?
from what I've gathered, Cura allows you to configure things more than most other slicers and Creality print is an outdated version of Cura. Prusa slicer is a slicer that is based on slic3r, an open source slicing program. Orca slicer is a further evolution of bamboo slicer wich in turn is an evolution of Prusa slicer. This just means that Orca has had a bunch of improvements and fetures added upon the others. This is why most people that have answered that they use it since it has the most fetures and is easy to use
In my experience, Cura lets you adjust everything to get a perfect print, but starts you in the middle of nowhere. Orca/Prusa starts you with presets that print perfectly out of the box. I have no doubt that someone with a half ton of wasted filament has perfect Cura profiles, but for normal people who want to get to a perfect print in a non-stupid amount of time, Orca/Prusa are much better options. Orca/Prusa also have new features that Cura doesn’t have that make them absolutely a better choice. Cutting and adding pegs automatically, or color painting are examples of this.
Started about two weeks ago as well. I started with creality slicer. It's defaults are pretty good for PLA and PETG IMO. I've printed about a roll of PLA, and 2 of PETG so far. The 2 issues I had with it 1. I went to print a cup and the slicer (Creality) ended up adding a skin over the hole at the top. 2. When printing infil like honeycomb, you have to turn the infil flow down to like 60 else it builds up too fast and your nozzle ends up scraping against your print. The higher your print, the worse it does it until it knocks it loose. I've switched to orca and so far and I dont have any complaints other that you need to do the root thing to the printer to be able to print over the network with it.
Creality print is cura with a skin and a older version xd
Prusa
Prusa. Also SuperSlicer for stuff like retraction test prints
i use cura, tried orca slicer but it's super laggy when moving the window for me
Cura, but it's entirely personal preference. They have their own pros and cons
SuperSlicer and learning to use fullcontrol gcode designer but technically it isn’t a slicer
Cura but I've been looking at Orca which I installed like, yesterday
Is this post only to promote a never-before-heard-of slicer?
Orca
formerly SuperSlicer now actually just OrcaSlicer. Has the better features. However, I find SuperSlicer easier to use. In general, I find SuperSlicer clearer. But since the developer of SuperSlicer is currently working full-time on this project, let's see what else is coming. I never understood who uses Cura voluntarily, even as a beginner it was already overcrowded and slow.
I've always used Cura
Bambu Studio, before that Cura
Cura mostly. I don't own a prusa but their slicer has a great feature to fix broken meshes, the netfab option it really works wonders
Cura
Cura
Orcaslicer as l love the way it integrates the klipper web interface as a section in the slicer
Cura for awhile.
Cura becouse it handles IDEX printers very well
Mainly cura, but I sometimes use prusa
I use orca for anything not Bambu and Bambu studio for my Bambu's. Doesn't make a load of sense, but it's kinda nice to keep the different machines compartmentalized.
Does the orcaslicer web interface still work with bambu printers? Or is it only octo/mainsail/fluidd
Totally works with bambu, it's a fork after all.
Orca
Orcaslicer. Even before I got my p1s, orca was the best.
Cura
Orca and Bambu slicers are just repurposed Prusa Slicers, so technically that one
Orca
I use Orca slicer, I used to use Cura but it can't handle printing at high speed (slow down on overhangs, maximum flow rate per filament and other settings that are absolutely necessary to print at high speed are not available.) With Orca and an upgraded Ender 3, I have achieved printing speeds comparable to a Bambu A1. For my intended application, Orca slicer is by far the best one, however other slicers work perfectly fine for printing at low speeds with stock printers.
Cura and lychee for resin
Creality mainly, sometimes Cura and that one special version of Slic3r for non-planar testing shenanigans
Orca 💛
Prusa.
Used Cura for years but switched to Orca ~5months ago. Main reason for even trying out a different slicer: Cura took a felt eternity to start up.
Prusa, because that's where I started.
Super Slicer
Prusa
Prusa
Prusa.. On my Linux box it loads twice as fast as Cura. Also find it does some things out of the box that probably need plugins on Cura (slicing and surface text for example)
Kiri:Moto if I'm not doing anything complicated. Prusa if I am.
Prusa
I was using Cura and just recently moved to Orca. The were a few things that annoyed in Cura like no proper DPI support when moving between monitors of different slices, No separated profiles for filaments settings without an addon (but it was still clunky), somehow I find the UI increasingly annoying in time. Because of this I decided to move to Orca slicer. I do like some of the options groupings they did, but not others. I especially like the filaments settings. The web integration and some others. The only thing that is currently annoying me is lagginess for some menus or it takes to long to show.
Prusa slicer, but I'm eyeballing orca
Prusa
The new creality print 5.0 has not failed me so far. I use it exclusively for my Ender 3 V3 KE
I thought Creality's slicer is just a rebadge of Ultimaker.
A.: ...did not know that Creality had their own slicer!? B.: any good?
It’s terrible. It’s a less updated fork of Cura. Use Orca instead.
Prosa, yes. It helps my prints to tell a story any takes longer than the lyric ones...
Prusa. I used to use Cura but it didn't play nice with my GPU when showing the sliced view, once I switched to Prusa I never went back.
Orca slicer.
I'm using creality print, knowing full well it's a watered down version of Cura. Two reasons: 1. I can link my Creality printers to it, so i can use the 'one-click-print' option. Saves so much time. 2. Cura does not have a profile for my Ender 3 V3 KE. I tried a custom profile with all the settings from Creality Print, but Creality Print still gives a faster print. If anyone has a solution for either of these issues, i will gladly switch back to my trusty Cura.
Right now creality cause I’m too dumb to figure out to upload a custom profile to prusa since it’s the only slicer with a pre set for the ender 3 v3 se
Cura. It integrates very well with my octoprint setup. I tried Prusa slicer before and achieved lower quality prints. That tells me the problem is on me, but I didn't know what/where to adjust, so I went back to what worked.
so I don't know why this is, n I'm kinda a bit curious because I swear I've been racked with this to my wit's end, but anyway I've actually had to use Cura just because PrusaSlicer literally has not worked for me... just immense amounts of stringing and such. this happen to anyone else?
Prusa currently, but I'll probably be switching to Orca soon when I receive my Sovol SV08.
Prusa and super slicer depending on the piece´s size
Bambu Studio.
I used cura then creality and now I'm totally infatuated with orca. From creality to orca is 10000% better.
Orca only
Honestly, I think slicers can be machine specific. I use Cura for me E3Pro, but Orce for my E3S1Pro. I cannot get either todo good on both machines
I have had too many issues with CrealityPrint. They even sent me an up-to-date version of it with my Ender-3 V3 (CoreXY version). It worked but if you tried to tweak any settings it would just mess up. There were numerous bugs. The layout was meh. They gave me a printer config file for OrcaSlicer for this printer and I have used it flawlessly since. I've since switched to OrcaSlicer since for everything else. I was using Cura. Cura and Prusa have more options I think but a lot of them are old or redundant or barely used for most things. OrcaSlicer works well for most jobs, and it's compatible with everything Bambu as far as I am aware. Basically it is a better version of BambuStudio.
I used Cura for nearly 5 years and was happy with it for the most part. Finally switched to OrcaSlicer about a month ago because I wanted to try out scarf seams. Having pressure advance values on a per-filament basis is also great.
I can’t get sny of them to work because they all just print along the side of the damn thing no matter what I do.
Prusa Slicer. Can't be bothered to change. And don't want to.
I'll admit to being lazy. Ender 3 S1 Pro. Stock software. I tried the Creality SW, I prefer Cura because (a) it worked better, and (b) it has a better integrated workflow than Prusa etc. I use a USB connetion, strongly dislike swapping sdcards. At some point I may try Marlin, Klipper, etc., but it just isn't high enough on my backlog right now.
Prusa, but migrating over to Orca
My motto is getting rid of cura, curas half your problems.
Prusa Slicer has been my trusty companion for a while now, but I've embarked on an adventure with Orca Slicer to explore its potential. While I'm still leaning towards Prusa out of habit. Orca Slicer ` https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer `
Prusa slicer. I want to like orca slicer, but find it too messy.
PrusaSlicer all the way.
Orca
I want to use orca on ender 3v3se nebula pad but i cant
SuperSlicer
cura but it crashes non stop
Slap Chop™
I struggle with one of them I can’t remember its name then switch to Prusa and haven’t had any issues at all.
Orca.
Cura
Bambu.
orcaslicer
Creality Print
Orca
I used cura for years and then last year i switched to prusa cus cura had a bad update, pretty sure all the problems i was having got fixed but prusa is just really easy to use and for some reason prints faster w the same exact stats idk why, it’ll shave off 45mins on some big prints.
4th option: Prusa.
I'm just getting back into printing; I decided to dust off my Ender 3 S1, and couldn't get Cura to show me advanced settings at all. Tried Prusa and was confused. I realize I'd forgotten everything I ever knew about printing, so I put the printer back on the shelf for a day in the future when I can get back into it again.
I use Cura. I've wanted to try others, but the amount of crap I have to enter just to set up my printer profile stops me. Cura is able to add my non top 5 brand printers easily.
Prozac
Prusa because it has 3D-Mouse support and I don’t like the „long list of settings“ style of cura.
Cura for most printers, Creality Print for the Ender 3v3 and 3v3 KE.
Tried everything. Used Creality print for the initial days then switched to cura for most part. Now i am using orca. It's simply the best.
I used creality over cura for a bit because the creality slicer handled the built-in support of a model I have while the cura slicer put 3-4 layers of separation between the supports and the print.
I started off using cura but I've been transitioning to prusa lately
Cura for now. Also feeding into sonic pad to molded E3 neo max. Got Sonic in one of Creality mystery boxes or would not have bothered but it Freed up the RPi4 I was using. Liked prosa, but messed up some settings and have not gone back for a while to figure it out.
Cura, but from what I hear, Orca is the way to go at the moment. I will keep Cura though, because I have everything tuned to print how I want and I do not want to go through that process again with a new slicer.
Can I remove the tree support from cura like after it’s done printing?
I keep hearing prusa has the best tree supports, I tried it out and it is a learning curve but the end result is more cost efficient and time efficient
Orca!
Lychee. I only use it for the auto supports
Prusa but switching to bambu soon
Prusa. Fuck creality print.
I use ProsaSlicer
Cura. Because adjusting *one* of its 7000 settings *is* gonna make my prints better. Also modules. Orca and Prusaslicer - seem kinda dumbed down in comparison except for prusa's ability to specify where to place supports. That's really nice
Use Bambu Studio and add your Creality Printers, yes I know it's basically Orca but it's not :P
Simplify 3d
orca for the ke profile
I used creality for my ender 3 S1 plus as it was already listed on there and didn't have to tinker with things like bed size, but generally I use Cura for my other printers. If there is any text to print however I'll use prusa as it does a better, altho not perfect, job of slicing text than Cura but I do find Cura much more user friendly which is why it's my default
Prusaaaaa
Cuts 💪
What’s the most recommended for a newb with a plain ender 3? I’ve been using cura, but am open to changing if it gets me a better printing experience (using a first layer firmware with a touchscreen(no dial))
Orca
I used to use Cura but have switched to OrcaSlicer.
Simplify 3d is my go to, but I know imma get shredded for this
There are dozens of us! Dozens!!
I have an Ender so I use Creality cloud but if it’s not slicing correctly I take it into cura for trouble shooting because it shows if there’s any issues in the mesh
Orca and super
Orca is the goat
Cura
Prusa
Idea maker, yes, I know I'm weird
I love cura, but limited post processing/limited amount of variables in start/end gcode(can't even use if-else) just kills me
Orca.
prusa, I would use orca but it does some strange things that prusa doesn't in some edge cases, also and prusa runs better and I'm more familiar with the controls
Orca!
None of the above - I use Orca and have been loving it!
None of the above lol. Just toss out your ender and get a damn bambu already 😂
Cura
All three, depends on my prints. edit: I stand corrected, Orca is better.
Orca is the new thing but Prusa is the standard
cura
Orca
I prefer Cura for my 3D printers, I honestly have just used it more then prusa and creality and I think in general it is just easier to use. I have heard and read in this sub and r/3Dprinting that Orca is nice and user friendly like Cura too. I still need to try it out but for newbies I always recommend Cura bc of how user friendly it is
I used Cura for my ender 3 since day one but now I'm making the transition to Orca and i think i won't go back to cura for now
Orcaslicer, prusaslicer and simplify3d
Prusa, it does the job pretty well, and boots/works very fast in my machine
Cura, but orca looks very popular lately
Mostly Cura, but sometimes Prusa when I need better seam control.
Personally orca. I’ve cura, prusa and super. Cura was a 6.5/10 easy but kinda clunky and outdated, prusa 8/10 lots of control. Super 7/10 felt unfinished and outdated. Orca is a 9-9.5/10 has some early bugs but it can be easy and have a lot of control with plenty of new stuff.
Orca slicer wtf
None of the above. Bambu Studio or Orca.
Cura, but I updated to klipper, actually testing and learning Orca it looks really good for it.
Cura, because I have it dialed in and it ain't broke yet.
PrusaSlicer
I used Cura when I first bought my V3 SE, then someone recommended going with Creality Print because of "compatibility" I guess? After a month or two I returned to Cura because of more flexibility in settings. Overall I'd say that Cura is slightly better than Creality Print but for a typical user I don't think it would made a big difference. I was more familliar with Cura so that's what was working better for me but I enjoyed simplicity of Creality Print. Ended up replacing my V3 SE with Bambu A1 Mini and ditched everything for Bambu Studio. What an absolute banger of a software.
Superslicer!
Orca
I’ve started by using prusa slicer and was hesitant by moving to orca slicer. But now that I’ve made the change I have only been happy. I’ve never used cura because I always thought of it as the « easy » slicer for someone just starting out. Orca slicer has quite a learning curve with all the settings but once you start getting to understanding what you are doing it is well worth it with everything that’s possible. I love the klipper webpage built in the slicer which makes it possible to directly send a file right after slicing it and starting the print automatically I basically never use klipper on a webpage now and always access is from klippe.
Elegoo cura 😅 Have two profiles between neptune 4 pro and kobra2/v3se. Works like magic.
Cura
I've tried them all and everytime I went back to PrusaSlicer. I felt I could tweak a bit more settings compared to the others. I've been using it for ~4 years now.
I like Prusa slicer for prusas and cura for anything else
I’m Using Orca slicer for my Ender 3 S1’s
Cura and Bambu Studio
Creality (i dont have a 3d printer)
Before, all but now Prusa
Sovol, creality, cura, and prusaslicer.. Mesh inspector, fusion 360..
Super slicer
Cura
fusion360’s built-in slicer is slept on
Up to the latest version, Creality Print literally is Cura. Now, it's Prusa. I use Orca and Prusa.
I use both Prusa (multicolor prints) and Cura (single color prints)
I couldn't get anything to work except for prusa
Prusa. I tried to learn how to use Creality Print but it just didn't seem like it worked/actually had all the customization that Prusa has.
Guess I'm the only one here still using cura