#SIMPLIFY3D 4.1 MODEL DISAPPEARS SOFTWARE#
Not that it effects me so much, but it has pre-configured profiles for many printers, allowing a larger market-share to have success with the software sooner.But honestly 95% of the time I don’t need it. This is extremely powerful, and arguably one of the best parts of the software. You can even ‘group’ processes so as to link their similar parameters together, so changing one changes all others (see how this works here).The power comes into play however, that you can assign them per mesh to print (if there are multiple being printed):.A process in S3D is basically a print preset.These are things I’ve found it to do, that other slicers may not. 3D Model: I used the good’ol 3dBenchy as my test model for all comparisons, except the thin-wall compare, it’s linked to below.6mm E3D-v6 Volcano nozzle at 230 degrees on a 60 deg bed, with active PLA cooling from a ducted 24cfm fan. I currently print mainly MakerGeeks PLA out of a.All steppers set to 1/128 microstepping using SD6128 drivers.Runs RepRapFirmware on 32-bit RADDS/Due electronic.My custom core-xy C-Bot : It has a 12x12x21″ build volume, auto-leveled on a heated, removable, mic6 aluminum bed covered in a PEI sheet.
#SIMPLIFY3D 4.1 MODEL DISAPPEARS UPDATE#
I will continue to update it over time, see bold “ Update” text below. There are so many facets to all of this, I wanted to get it in one place to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. It should be noted however, I have over two years of experience with S3D, and only a few weeks on Slic3r, but so many of the concepts of the software overlap, I feel I have a pretty good grasp of it.įinally, why am I writing this? It’s taken quite a while to do all the research! Mainly for myself actually: I wanted to get all my research down on paper to see if I should make a slicer switch or not. This is not a post designed to bash Simplif圓D and espouse the values of some other slicer: My goal is to make it an honest comparison of the two software. Update: As it turns out, dev releases of vanilla Slic3r are generated often, so it’s pretty easy to be on the cutting edge, find downloads here. I know vanilla Slic3r is still being developed, it’s just been a while since an official release has gone out. And mainly that edition over vanilla Slic3r because vanilla Slic3r hasn’t been updated since mid 2015, while the Prusa edition is being actively developed (+ extra fancy features). Yes, there are more, but these seem to be popular:Īfter reviewing all of them, and for reasons listed below, I decided to investigate Slic3r Prusa Edition.
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Everyone uses the software differently, and the things I find important (or not) could be polar opposite of someone else.īased on a general poll I posted, it looks like these slicers are out in the wild and commonly used. And there’s a good chance someone out there is going to disagree with my findings : That’s great, I’d like to hear your perspective, leave a comment below. I know that slicer software is like religion, politics, and CAD software: People can get very attached to them. I thought I should revisit what slicer software 2017 has available. And the updates don’t include fixes to some major issues I feel it has….And that their updates are so few and far between….The fact that I paid cash money for it.Despite it does so many things so well….However, and as much as I like Simplif圓D: I’ve also built my own printer a few years ago. And for the time I used them, they’ve all been great.
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Since then I’ve used multiple slicers to generate my gcode, but mainly (and in order): ReplicatorG, MakerWare (now MakerBot Print), and Simplif圓D. I’ve been a 3d printing hobbyist for right around five years now: I purchased my first printer, a Makerbot Replicator 1 (which I still own, still prints great) in March of 2012.