I’ve been 3D printing a little over two years. I use an Ender 3 Pro modified with Micro Swiss NG DD all metal hot end, BL Touch, Dual Z using a timing belt, 4.2.7 MB and Marlin 2.1.1.
Cura has been working well. I use the Cura default printing parameters for the Ender. So it’s not a speed demon. I recently installed ORCA to investigate the plane cut tool as I have a project where that could come in handy. I have used Meshmixer in the past to plane cut models which works. Since Orca doesn’t have and Ender 3 Pro printer I choose ‘Marlin’ printer when installing. My first surprise was print times. I realize Orca just used some default speeds that aren’t necessarily for the Ender 3 Pro.
First has anyone played/used Orca? What are your thoughts?
Second, outside of trying to match print speeds one for one between the slicers (which may not be right to begin with) what would some reasonable speeds for PLA and PETG without going through the time consuming testing? I don’t think I would know if what is being printed in my test would be right. Guess I’m looking for thoughts and ideas.
I use Bambu Slicer when using my Bambu X1C but for my Ender 3 S1 Plus I still use Prusa Slicer. I have Orca slicer installed and have used it a couple of times for calibration but as a whole I like Bambu Studio better it’s just easier to use. Isn’t a Ender 3 v2 about the same as an Ender 3 Pro as I remember the V2 was the next version after the Pro. So I would use the Ender 3 v2 profile. You might also take a look at PrusaSlicer as I believe it will do what you want to do…
Orca Slicer has more features than Bambu Studio but for some reason Orca doesn’t seem as polished to me. Bambu in the latest version no has profiles for 3rd party printers so I may give it a try for my Ender. If I could import all the profiles & filament setting in to Bambu\Orca I might be more adapt to switch. But even though Bambu\Orca are forks of Prusa they use different formats for config files. Prusa uses .ini files and Bambu\Orca uses .json files. I would think someone smarter than me could write a script to convert the Prusa .ini to .json but maybe not.
When using Bambu Studio I mainly use the stock profiles and just tweak them here and there for what I am printing. Do have some. filament profiles that I have run calibration on for Max Flow Rate which effect speed, may only work on the X1c\P1P printers though not sure.
You might check out PrusaSlicer 2.6 (the latest version) because Prusa made improvements to the cut tool as well as auto generation of assembly pegs. I don’t think the improvements have shown up yet in Orca.
Orca (and Bambu) slicer does not have keyboard commands to zoom in or out of a part (only mouse scrolling). This is a show stopper for me. YMMV
i just move over from cura because the last weeks i had only problems with cura and a ender 5 pro, i updated last week from marlin to marlin and th3d.
still not working. and today i moved from cura to orca and bam it works again and with faster speeds then by cura
I did not deal with any printer profiles for my AnetA8/AM8 or my TronXY X5. Usually, when using a new computer for printing, I download the Cura.appimage and launch it.
Then I change the print speed to 55mm/s and dial in the PLA or ABS temperature and increase the retract distance a little.
The rest (supports, adhesion, dynamic layer height… ) I do on a per print base.
So as you can see I do not really care about all the fancy stuff available and mostly use defaults.
No clue about Orca and where its features are coming from. Probably a mix of prusa and cura stuff.
Bambu Studio was mentioned here before and I think it is a bad choice (if you have any). After the recent stunt of Bambu Lab of locking people into their cloud/slicer trap and change the terms of use behind the users back. In addition to that they even forced archive.org to remove their site so that change or terms looks like a user oversight. Of course they claim disabling printing direct via other slicers is a security risk and got therefore disabled.
Firmware must be up to date or their printers can (so far this is just a possibility, but it is only logical as the want to to security now) simply stop working. Fun part if the firmware breaks something you are screwed with a broken printer and cannot finish your workload, until they fix it and release a new firmware. And you cannot suspend the update until your important stuff is done, like you would normally do.
They are only one step away from forcing the users to use a specific filament brand to ensure the cage is closed. Their local cloud service got already hacked and provides a real danger now. So much for introducing better printer security.
BambuLab makes nice printers, but with the recent fall out, I cannot recommend these printers anymore and would not buy them myself.
I may got a little off rails here, but BambuLab should not get away with this stupid and in my opinion illegal behavior.
Cura 5.9.0 does not have a Creality-supplied profile for an “Ender-5 Pro” – only “5,” “5 Plus” and “5 S1”. If you post your profile here, maybe we can help figure out what was wrong.