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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)
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?
Did OrcaSlicer ever bring back the option to slice automatically when changing settings? It's called "Background processing" in PrusaSlicer.
I used to slicer hop around, then i discovered orca. Just the best imho
Edit: its an open source fork of bamboo slicer
And Bambu Studio is a fork of PrusaSlicer
Which is a fork of Slic3r
The UI of Prusa slicer is hot garbage though. I started with prusa slicer and moved to orca after a few months. Orca is a much nicer experience, and the built-in test-models (temp towers etc.) are nice.
I'm comparing cura and prusa, so prusa wins by a lot. What are you comparing prusa to? Orca?
Yes
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.
In find the location and grouping of parameters more intuitive in orca. I always had to look through several tabs to find the parameter I wanted to adjust when I was using prusa, it was never where I thought it should be.
Orca slicer is a fork of Prusaslicer
And it's fantastic!
Edit: its actually a fork of bamboo slicer which is a fork of prusa slicer
Fork of a fork of a fork.
The beauty of open source software
What are the advantages over Prusa?
Ease of use or features? Both?
I'd say all of the above. Its integration with Kipper is also very good
It's worth giving a try