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?
PrusaSlicer. I like the settings better. It’s a good slicer.
I had some issues early on with Cura and switched to Prusa, and it’s always worked well for me.
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.
There’s also a community built Flatpak if you’re ok with that
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.
I use the Flatpak version.
What is an appimage?
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.
I have no idea. It’s like a program that Linux doesn’t recognize as a program.
An appimage is basically a bundle of all the required libraries dependencies and the actual application you want to run. Its convinient for the developers since they dont have to package their software for multiple distibutions (debian, arch, suse etc). To have it behave like you are expecting (ie be double clickable to run and searchable) you need to make the file executable (either with chmod or a right click menu if your disto has the option) and create a .desktop file (either manually or using an app like Appimage Launcher)
This may sound complicated but it is pretty easy. Though I find it an unecessary hassle as well. Here is a guide if you : https://itsfoss.com/use-appimage-linux/
Orcaslicer
Preach, best of all worlds
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.
I used Cura for a few years, then I tried Prusa and my print quality dramatically improved for reasons I have not figured out.
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.
Cura, I’ve gone back to Prusa periodically but it has too many features hidden behind simple buttons or percentage sliders for me.
Cura and my self programmed vase mode slicer
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.
SLA: Lychee free version bc fuck renting licenses
FDM: prusa slicer bc open source ftw
Cura. Works for me.
Prusaslicer
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).
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…
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.
Prusaslicer. For resin I combine it with UVtools