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)
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.
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.
23 Comments
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y
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.world · 19 pts · 2y
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?
p1mrx@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
Did OrcaSlicer ever bring back the option to slice automatically when changing settings? It's called "Background processing" in PrusaSlicer.
xenspidey@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 2y
I used to slicer hop around, then i discovered orca. Just the best imho
Edit: its an open source fork of bamboo slicer
Nilz@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2y
And Bambu Studio is a fork of PrusaSlicer
xenspidey@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2y
Which is a fork of Slic3r
Grippler@feddit.dk · 7 pts · 2y
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
I'm comparing cura and prusa, so prusa wins by a lot. What are you comparing prusa to? Orca?
Grippler@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 2y
u_tamtam@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y
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.dk · 1 pts · 2y
rugburn@lemmynsfw.com · 5 pts · 2y
Orca slicer is a fork of Prusaslicer
xenspidey@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 2y
And it's fantastic!
Edit: its actually a fork of bamboo slicer which is a fork of prusa slicer
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
Fork of a fork of a fork.
xenspidey@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y
The beauty of open source software
zelifcam@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
xenspidey@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y
I'd say all of the above. Its integration with Kipper is also very good
lefixxx@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
It's worth giving a try
neclimdul@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Does it work on recent Linux releases yet?
Grippler@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 2y
neclimdul@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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.
Grippler@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 2y
neclimdul@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
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.
Damage@feddit.it · 1 pts · 2y
I run it on Nobara and Fedora, and I only have occasional graphic glitches with the windows
neclimdul@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
That's good. I assume you've got the old libwebkit installed somehow. There are a dozen reports around this though so it's a pretty real problem. https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer/issues?q=libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37
Damage@feddit.it · 1 pts · 2y
Well I have chromium installed, I use it to segregate Google services to a dedicated browser
shitescalates@midwest.social · 2 pts · 2y
Any plans to add belt printer support?
romano@lemmy.shtuf.eu · 2 pts · 2y
There's a request made here. Haven't seen devs reply yet though.