Investigation discovers the surprising result that slicers introduce more error into prints than the printer itself.
That’s the reason KISSlicer was used for a long time. It now is almost forgotten (and sadly closed source)
Can’t watch the video right now. Anyone know which is the best?
Prusa. Stay away from fusion most of all.
I’ve always used Cura, I liked the UI more (with some plugins) was anything said about it?
In their tests, it introduced more errors into the print. Some version of prusa slicer is the best, but honestly, most of the time, the difference isn’t that crazy, but just another factor. Especially if you have other issues you may not know about.
Is there a Fusion slicer? I just know of Fusion360, the CAD software.
Fusion lets you print from the UI. I have never used it. I always export an stl or step and load that into the slicer.
Orca slicer seems the go to. I don’t really mess with much else anymore.
Not very surprising, slicers do the difficult job of determining every movement the printer will take. Printers just execute those.
When I got into this stuff, this was pretty much common knowledge. The fuck happened that it ain’t now?
Printers have become appliances instead of a hobby.
Nowadays you have: Push button -> get thing.
Instead of a 30 minute process of leveling the print bed, 4 different pieces of software to get the gcode correct, a specific time, temperature, and humidity level filament needed to be kept at, a custom enclosure to prevent the draft from walking across the room causing layer shifts, and a prayer to the ether that there wasn’t some type of fault on the SD card that would corrupt the gcode and gouge your brand new tempered glass bed.
As an old toolmaker, Welcome to the world of understanding your process! And knowing the limits of that process.
I wonder what he actually expects for a tolerance day to day. A +/-.1mm IS doable if you’re careful. But there is enough randomness in the FDM process, even outside the slicer, that I wouldn’t bet the farm on any 1 random piece hitting that tolerance. Let alone repeating that level of tolerance every time over say, 100 parts.
