Why don't you use Cura slicer?

burtoogle

@dalton said in Why don't you use Cura slicer?:

No slowdown when printing bridges.

Too much options.

1 - the options are there to slow down the walls and/or skin when printing bridges.

2 - there's lots of options right now because they are experimental! When we know what is useful and what isn't perhaps the number of options can be reduced or set to good default values. However, as what is a good value for speed/flow/fan, etc. differs from material to material so it's unlikely that all of these options can have defaults that work for all materials/printers/models.

wilriker

So, actually I am using Cura from the start (which is not so long ago anyway and I started with 3.2.1). I like it more than any other slicer I tried so far (ideaMaker, Slic3r PE, KISSlicer - I wanted to try IceSL but never got it to work due my ancient graphics card ).

The only thing I am missing right now is a feature that I found in ideaMaker and liked a lot: change any setting at a given Z-height. Cura allows to change a few settings through built-in post-processing but I would like to have at least the option to change arbitrary settings. One use-case I had in the past was that I wanted to print a model with low infill at the bottom and 100% infill at a specific area that needed maximum rigidity - possibly but not necessarily going back to a lower infill further up.
I know I had other use-cases but I cannot remember them right now.

burtoogle

@wilriker said in Why don't you use Cura slicer?:

The only thing I am missing right now is a feature that I found in ideaMaker and liked a lot: change any setting at a given Z-height. Cura allows to change a few settings through built-in post-processing but I would like to have at least the option to change arbitrary settings. One use-case I had in the past was that I wanted to print a model with low infill at the bottom and 100% infill at a specific area that needed maximum rigidity - possibly but not necessarily going back to a lower infill further up.

This is possible via the use of infill meshes. You can change all infill parameters for an arbitrary region within a model, I use that for reinforcing areas around holes like this example:

wilriker

@burtoogle Narf! Would I have known this earlier I could have used this for the print that is going on right now

EDIT: At least I know this for the future, thanks.

EDIT2: Good or bad: my print failed so I can now slice it anew with my new knowledge.

Phaedrux

Modifier meshes are the best kept secret of Cura unfortunately. Very useful but a little obtuse. Easier to use than the slic3r modifier meshes at least.

paboman

In cura I don't like the auto gcode calculating, it should be like S3D, once I have my settings dialed in then I can proceed to rendering the Gcode.

burtoogle

@paboman said in Why don't you use Cura slicer?:

In cura I don't like the auto gcode calculating, it should be like S3D, once I have my settings dialed in then I can proceed to rendering the Gcode.

It's an option, you can turn off the auto-slicing. RTFM, perhaps?

paboman

@burtoogle
really ?
where that option is?

Phaedrux

@paboman it's in the main settings. Auto-slice

paboman

@phaedrux
finally! great, thank you!