Orca Slicer is BETTER than Bambu Studio, Cura and Prusa Slicer because they were the food!

I forgot to mention!

Now that the K1 is using Fluidd or Mainsail, Klipper software, you can adjust settings while the print is going, if you need to adjust something on the fly, you can do it easily.

We're going full time! Help to make it a Success!

If you own a 3D printer, you're going to want to try this slicer. It's packed with features, and you can now send wirelessly to each of your 3d printers from one single slicer with confidence!

Orca slicer came up on my feed and although I had heard of it, I didn't realize it was so good. I had to try it out, I wasn't happy with Creality print and I wasn't using my K1 much at all. I wanted to be able to send prints quickly and easily to the K1, and Creality Print was not doing the job well enough.

Orca slicer has taken the best features of different slicers and has eaten them and combined them once again into one software. It even includes some newer features that other slicers don't have to help printing very steep overhangs.

The creators have done an amazing job, and this is a community effort, which means we can support their work as well and help them do keep going.

After making the video, I've been printing on the Creality K1 all of the time, prior to it, I wasn't using it much, maybe once a week. It isn't quite as good as the Bambu X1 Carbon, but that's something I would expect with it being a far cheaper printer. I still think I can get more out of the printer with a bit more fine-tuning.

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[datadreamsit]

i love it when you say if i can do it you can do it too, makes me laugh every time

[TechBuild]

I have been using Orca Slicer for a few months now and it has become my favourite slicer. I tried using Prusa Slicer and it has quite some useful and powerful features like making joints for divided parts, but I still find Orca Slicer easy to use with a simple UI and still having sufficiently advanced features and settings, not to forget it exists because of the Prusa Slicer in the first place.

[AvocadoAtrocity]

I use a drybox from creality to warm up and dry the filament before it's extruded and that makes a world of difference for my PETG prints. (I print PETG only with Overture filament).

[umbratherios]

I just tried orca. it was probably the worst experience i've had with a slicer to date in years.

Just use what works for you. sometimes "better" isn't always "better". Orca might be great, bit is is in DIRE need of UI improvement, changes, and bugfixes to fix it's lag, freezing and even buttons just straight up not working..

[tuxflyer]

Nothing to add to the title of this video. I changed to Orca because of the K1 wasn't supported by others. And i never regret.

[joeking]

What happened to the good old click off youtube ads? These new ones suck.

[thejedijohn]

Did you ever compare it to the Bambu slicer? Seems like you're making the argument that Orca is better than Creality's slicer, but the title made me think you were going to compare it to Bambu Studio. Did I miss that part?

[REDxFROG]

People should consider supporting the guy(s) behind OrcaSlicer. It's easily the best slicer software out there and all the hard work needs to be honorated.

[TurboGlenn]

Is there any difference between Orca and Bambu? (when using a Bambu printer?)

[aeonjoeyd]

I just began a test print with Orcaslicer on my K1, fingres crossed! i love it's organic supports!

[awareaction]

Impact of a slicer is very under rated(often neglected), compared to hardware( creality, bambu labs, prusa etc.). Glad that you've brought some clarity to the subject.❤👍

[_powerbeard]

I still use CURA half the time, it is better on my older printer on some prints. Love Orca maybe more though, it's exciting for sure.

[TS_Mind_Swept]

I initially downloaded Orca because Prusa slicer was doing some bizarre things with the supports in the G-Code preview... not sure if that was just a visual bug or how they got like that since I didn't knowingly change any settings, but I didn't want to run the risk of the print failing if it was actually going to try to print the supports 2 mm thick.. the built-in setting calibration tests are kind of neat, though I do wish performing the tests wasn't so cumbersome.. just part of the process, I suppose, I'm just lazy and hate wasting material that I could be using for actual prints 😩

[enderger]

I’m using an alpha of Orca (I wanted to install via Flatpak on Linux and had to manually download it since it isn’t on Flathub yet) and so far it works well on my Ender 5 (which I do intend to convert to a hybrid CoreXY in the future).

[silviutanase]

If you use the Creality Print 5, is it worth switching to Orca ?

[aardwolfweb]

I just tried Orca last week. After all the hype, I wanted to like it. I was excited about the simple interface and control over supports and infill. I even spent a few days on it to give it an honest chance. But....

It was like going back in time two years.

100% of my prints are functional and tend to require precision fits and, you know, actual engineered tolerances. They have mating parts or otherwise interact with other hardware. With Orca it was back to scaling and trial and error games with positive and negative expansion. Or, almost as bad, tweaking the model to get it to print at the correct dimensions.

I printed the same parts in Cura with Slicing Tolerance = Exclusive and everything fit perfectly on the first try.

Until Orca has a way to control how it handles the model's envelope, it's a waste of time for me.

[noisy_boi_fpv_]

I've been using it since softfever 1. All other slicers need to pack up and go home lol

[adamnickels]

Since I've discovered Orka slicer that's all I use but I've done some side by side comparison with other slicers and never want to go back to those other slicers. Orka just works better.

[NoMercyFtw]

I started using orca like a week ago and I'm kicking myself in the ass that I didn't switch sooner

[joshuabaudoin]

I need to find a tutorial for setting up mainsail or fluid on my K1 using MacOS. Any suggestions on MacOS compatible software?