I have been a long time Prusaslicer user but lately I’m running into a limitation. Hole XY size compensation is a big missing feature which I have seen in Cura. Also Cura handles lithophanes really well.

I do not like the UI of Cura but do like the Prusaslicer one.

What slicer do you prefer?

  • TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I installed Cura and it never gave me a reason to switch… until it started to get just impossible to keep it running. My take on Cura is “it’s a fine slicer, but a terrible program.”

    I used to run it on a Raspberry Pi, but then they made it impossible to run on ARM. Gentoo abandoned it because Cura made it impossible to build reliably. I don’t remember what the issue I had on Arch (on x86_64, even) was, but it was a pain to even make it run there as well.

    So I switched to Prusaslicer and it hasn’t given me a reason to change yet. I think Orca is kindof “Prusaslicer but with more bells, whistles, and gongs”, but I have yet to really need much more functionality than Prusaslicer offers. The bricklaying thing seems kinda cool, but I haven’t had a specific use for it. And most of what I print is very utilitarian rather than artistic, so if I tinker, it tends to be more with the model than the slicer settings. (Honestly, most of what I print is models I designed myself from scratch in OpenSCAD.)