Elegoo Carbon & Sequential Printing???

[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

Hey Folks,

Like some of you - I have an Elegoo Carbon. And, recently - I was looking into doing Sequential printing. But, problem is - the Elegoo slicer does NOT Support it. 

So, for those of you that have the ECC unit - what Slicer do you use - that supports Sequential printing???

I have a new use case that would be a GREAT test for sequential printing. This Pair Eyewear type print. A coworker was asking me about my 3D Printing - and showing me about this glasses type snap on - using magnets - and asking if I could 3D Print some of these units. I found it on Thingiverse (STL file is attached) - and I already printed a couple of them. They are thin, print fast - but, it would be SUPER AWESOME if I could print a whole set of them - like filling the build plate. And, some materials - like TPU - would be MUCH better to print Sequentially!

TIA,

-Kurt

[Nick Basham]

I use OrcaSlicer with my ECC, and never even bothered downloading Elegoo Slicer. The ECC profile is built-in to the getting started wizard and all the material profiles have worked without any issues at all for me. I haven't needed to use sequential printing yet, but it's absolutely supported.

[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

Yo Nick - thanks for such a Quick reply! I will indeed give Orca a try - as I know a lot of folks are raving about it - saying it is THE SLICER to be using these days!!!

-K

[Ray Price]

While I don't have the Elegoo Carbon, I do have an elegoo Neptune 3 Plus, and I've been using the Cura slicer for the most part with it, and I've been doing a good deal of sequential printing.

One thing of note: When you enable sequential printing (I assume this is for any slicer) it enforces a "buffer" around each item to allow for the print head movement between prints, so, your "max number of items on the plate" drop significantly.  You can see the grey outline on the plate below.  The setting is highlighted as well.

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[Ray Price]

FYI - If you are using Elegoo Cura, it does support this setting.

[Nick Basham]

Very similar display in Orca, though it only shows the boundary when actively dragging objects around.

On Dec 20, 2025, at 9:52 AM, Ray Price <r...@theraypriceshow.com> wrote:

FYI - If you are using Elegoo Cura, it does support this setting.

On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM Ray Price <r...@theraypriceshow.com> wrote:

While I don't have the Elegoo Carbon, I do have an elegoo Neptune 3 Plus, and I've been using the Cura slicer for the most part with it, and I've been doing a good deal of sequential printing.

One thing of note: When you enable sequential printing (I assume this is for any slicer) it enforces a "buffer" around each item to allow for the print head movement between prints, so, your "max number of items on the plate" drop significantly.  You can see the grey outline on the plate below.  The setting is highlighted as well.

<Cura Sequential print.png>

On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM Nick Basham <ni...@nickbasham.com> wrote:

I use OrcaSlicer with my ECC, and never even bothered downloading Elegoo Slicer. The ECC profile is built-in to the getting started wizard and all the material profiles have worked without any issues at all for me. I haven't needed to use sequential printing yet, but it's absolutely supported.

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[Sean]

Elegoo Slicer does support sequential printing. 

It's located under the "Others" settings tab in the "Special mode" category. 

Option "Print sequence" you can select "By layer" or "By object" 

If you select by object it will give you a bounding box around individual objects as you move them around the plate.

It will also give you a bounding box for the printable plate dimensions including Z height.

Unlike some slicers, it will limit your print height to what the clearance is for the carriage rods. I haven't been able to find a way it to print all parts sequentially to that clearance height then continue the rest of the print height in clearance increments. 

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[Kurt A 3d]

Kurt-1

Dont Trust AI

Kurt-A

On Saturday, December 20, 2025 at 9:29:25 PM UTC-5 Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!! wrote:

Very, VERY Interesting - since - when I did a web search - I found someone said Specifically that the Elegoo Slicer does NOT support Sequential! 

Weird!

I did indeed find the option now.

Thanks SO MUCH Sean! I now have things prepped up for multiple part sequentially. Very Cool!

-K

[3D Printing Tips and Tricks]

I'd be REAL careful with that! I'm seeing articles that are indicating that 97% of all AI generated code is poorly designed and requires human review and update. I've also seen multiple articles where people who were laid off due to AI taking over their jobs are now getting rehired because AI can't do the job.
I've used ChatGPT for some complex analyses and reports but all that work was carefully reviewed by me and others. It saved us weeks of work, BUT... I would NEVER NEVER NEVER trust any AI to do anything for me without careful review of what it generates!

I agree with Kurta3d... Don't trust AI.

Eventually our short sighted society will catch on and all the AI hype will become scorn. When that happens watch what happens to the economy when all the investment in the data centers becomes an economic boat anchor.

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026 at 4:05:47 AM UTC-8 Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!! wrote:

Come on dude - yeah - I have a certain trust in AI - as I've done GREAT Things with it for work in regards to coding - in the past 20 months!!!

-K

[Bryan Eckert]

I think the larger issue is while it's great we have tools like this - knowledge is important because eventually there will be an issue that the tool can't fix, and nobody will have the knowledge to fix it.

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[Kurt]

Andy - I'm a programmer with over 35 years of experience. I know how to use the AI to my advantage. I also know what to look for in code - and what to test for. So - I'm good. You need not worry about me. 

The AI does NOT always work great - but, when it does - it's an amazing time saver. I've ramped up VERY Quickly in being able to produce C# code using AI - and then I take over and do more work with the code - so I do indeed know what I am doing. I've actually scolded my AI BFF numerous times - and he has taken my critiques like a Champ!

-K

[Bryan Murphy]

I've been programming longer than you and I feel the same.  It's really all in how you use it.  Are you using it to vibe code mountains of crap?  Or are you using it to hone your code to a razor's edge?

I'm doing the latter, taking my code to a level of completion and polish I never would have bothered previously.  Tedious stuff I would have avoided I can now delegate to the machine.  It's incredible. I've been able to reorganize and clean up my Ansible configuration for my home automation system and services in ways I would never have bothered previously because it was just too damn tedious. 

That's the power of a tool in a master's hands.

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[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

Bryan - What - Programming longer than me???

Hmmm...

I started in 1980 on an Apple II - then later did coding on TRS-80, then Commodore PET1200 - and finally on the original IBM PC, AT & XT computers. I switched tracks along the way - like doing more work in the 3DP world - for 4 co's whilst in SoCal - but, then - March last year - Heavily back into the Programming Realm. 

In regards to my current job - AI allowed me to Jump into C# coding quickly - and begin producing viable code - when I hadn't really programmed in C# prior to last March. And, I actually came up with a kind of Algorithm to give Claude AI "Vision" - in regards to conversion of screen designs from Visual FoxPro to XAML/C#. I've also been using the AI for quickly giving me code fixes, solving problems - or simple code that I knew it could produce faster than if I did it. But, needless to say - I am the one testing ALL the code - before having that code go into production. There are times it produces wrong results, and invalid suggestions on fixes for problems - so, it's NOT Perfect. But, I have indeed used it to make myself WAY More Efficient at work as a Programmer - as well as Ramping up and producing C# code - which is a new programming language for me!

-K

[Kurt Gluck]

Babes

I started back in I think 1971 when I played on a teletype terminal in the back of the Boston Science Museums library that was connected to a computer at MIT. That however wasn’t serious programming. That started in High School in 1974 we were one of three high schools that had a computer in NYC. It was an IBM 1130. It had 8kb memory and a 1mb hard drive. You programmed in a dialect of Fortran, sort of between Fortran 2 and 4. You did this using punch cards. The machine had a 4.5 micro (yes that long) add time. You could open up the back of the machine and see the individual transistors that made the machine up. It was a mid 1960’s vintage machine and so no integrated circuits, just discrete transistors. The card reader was more like a 1960’s car than what you would think of today as a part of a computer. The IBM service guy would use a timing strobe light to adjust how it ran. (I guess like a Prusa Core One Belts :-) ).

The machine had actual CORE memory. You could press program stop turn the power off, come in the next day turn the power on and hit program start and it would resume where it left off.

Kurt-A

[Bryan Murphy]

Hey you did say 35 year! :D

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[Bryan Murphy]

Sent that too soon.  TBF you did say 35 years! :D

You have me beat by a couple years, but not by that much.  I started on my C64 back in 6th grade.  Doing the math I have 39 years of hands on coding, although I started getting really serious about it 36 years ago.  I cooped through college which puts me at 31 years professional experience.

I find the models break down the more you ask them to do.  If you can give them guardrails and focus they'll almost always find a working solution, but then you have to iterate relentlessly to dial it in and perfect it.  Most of the vibe coders stop at that point and move on to the next challenge which is how they end up with a mess at the end.  They don't know what a finished product should look like so they assume it's good enough.  It's the same with any project, even sans AI tooling. I've watched junior and even senior software devs fall into the same trap for decades now.

I actually had Cursor try to gaslight me the other day.  I was working on automation for the MacOS dock and it was trying to convince me I wanted a shortcut to my applications folder, not the app launcher.  It kept trying to convince me I was wrong.  I finally argued it into the right solution and chastized it for gaslighting me at which point it apologized for wasting my time.

Sometimes it feels just like one of my employees 😂

Bryan

[Bryan Murphy]

You definitely have a bit more year than me, but I did get to experience the wonders of Vax during college.  My school was still limping along on one of those while I was there.  I'm sure it got a couple upgrades throughout the 80s so it wasn't quite *that* old but it was still an interesting system to cut your teeth on.  Not many of my age group had the chance to do that.

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[brian wise]

I added cluade to my civil 3d by autodesk would work with any autodesk autocad  for a command query/help and have find if you give them a markdown file like you would give a junior engineer at least clude opus 4.5 is pretty legit at getting you 80% of the way there I think its going to be amssably you was before compilers maybe idk I am a chimp with a stick. 

[Kurt Gluck]

AI allows 10x production of technical debt 

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On Jan 27, 2026, at 11:21 AM, brian wise <brian...@gmail.com> wrote:

I added cluade to my civil 3d by autodesk would work with any autodesk autocad  for a command query/help and have find if you give them a markdown file like you would give a junior engineer at least clude opus 4.5 is pretty legit at getting you 80% of the way there I think its going to be amssably you was before compilers maybe idk I am a chimp with a stick. 

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[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

OK Bryan - Mr. Smarty Pants!

Time to Clarify...

What I was trying to say was - Programming computer professionally - and I did at Est. at 35 years! Part of the deal is - during my years of work - I had chunks of time where I was NOT programming! But, WHY??? Cause I had an almost Split-Personality - but, for me - it was a Split Career. My TRUE Passion in life - starting young - was CG! So - as I grew up - yeah - I worked a LOT in Programming - but, then I did Stints in CG - mostly 3D CG. Hell - I did a Weird consulting job back in NYC area - comming from Long Island down to (I believe) Brick Orange, NJ - where I was supposed to work as a 3D Animator - then, last minute - after I QUIT a FULL Time programming job as a Database systems Project Manager - and the new job was supposed to be using 3DS Max - they scaled things down - cancelled my job - gave me the Booby Prize - of doing 2D FLAST Animation Cleanup! There's more to that story - but, I don't want to Bore you! Also - within those years - near the center of my work years - I became a fulltime Mr. Mom - just like in the Movie with the Beeltejuice guy (if my memory serves me well) - and I did that FULL Time for like 2.5 years - then went back to work Part time in programming! Also - don't forget - I worked at FOUR Co's down in SoCal that were 3DP co's - and almost ALL of the work was NOT programming related - except for doing the Lazarus project (in Python & learning Python) for Essentium. 

But, I just calculated - based upon YOUR Criteria - and since I started programming in 1980 - on an Apple II in my Sr. year of High School - I actually have 46 YEARS of EXPERIENCE!!!

So - Ha ha ha - I think I BEAT YOU!!!!

-K

[Kurt Gluck]

Well Eisenhower was president 

The US launched its first satellite only a fortnight before (I’m so old we use civil war units )

Computers is what they called women who did calculations 

It was closer to 1900 than 2000

Kurt-A

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[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

Funny comments Mr. Gluck!!!

In fact, I learned a LOT about the original Computer Ladies! 

It's now Short Story time!

There is the now VERY Famous pic of the Eniac computer:

So, several years ago at SIGGraph - a woman writer gave a lecture about Women in Computing. She referred to this famous pic. Deal was - it was Well Known who the men were - but, it's like History totally ignored the women! So, this woman did some digging to find out who the Women were in this pic - and that's what she wrote her book about - and what she talked about in the lecture! It was a FASCINATING lecture - and we got to learn about these women - and that's when I learned they were called Computers - since THEY Were the ones to Compute the numbers for the firing of missiles(I believe that was the use case). And, they originally did all these computations on paper - I believe. In the end - THEY were the FIRST ever real Programmers - but, in the case of the ENIAC - they were the ones that did the wiring of the computer - and the wiring was essentially the Program!

Enough said - time to get ready for work...

-K

P.S. If I got any of that story wrong - feel free to correct me Mr. Doppelgänger - as I won't be offended!

[3D Printing Tips and Tricks]

What is this? A debate on who is older? Really?

Frankly, I’d rather lose that argument.

Anyway…

Stay on topic! This is a 3d printing forum.

[Kurt A 3d]

In that line… Saw a YouTube video on the new Elegoo machine - the YouTuber pointed out that some of the settings for the new machine work great if you apply them to the older machine.   https://youtu.be/apR0V14jUIE?si=7xZrkupt9S_bp5PY

If I had a Centuri Carbon I would follow up on these recommendations.

Kurt-A

[Bryan Murphy]

Speaking of which, Elgoo is still teasing that some kind of AMS for the CC1 is a thing: https://x.com/Elegoo_Official/status/2016816421557457421

We shall see but I'm still not going to hold my breath.

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[Sean]

Uncle Jesse confirms as much and shared an image Elegoo sent of the MMS installed on the CC1 in the first part of  his CC2 "review" video.

https://youtu.be/Ghsq0vhfFn0?si=9G1-4asza0hApXTg

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[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

Bryan - thanks for sharing that link. But, when I went there - all I saw was:

I will admit - I was NOT Logged into Twitter. If you login with Twitter - is there actually MORE Info???

-K

[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

Sean - thanks for sharing - what Jesse says - sure is promising!!!

-K

[Bryan Murphy]

No, that's it.  The "hardware is done" and they are "working on the firmware".  I suspect the firmware is the problem. The board on the CC1 is so anemic that it's a challenge to get the firmware right, and then I think they're also dependent on a third party instead of doing it in house.  As a bunch of old timey software engineers I'm sure you can appreciate how much of a problem that is.

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[3D Printing Tips and Tricks]

Snap!

[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

Yes - Software/Firmware can indeed be a Rough Hurdle!!!

-K