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. 

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/3d-printing-tips--tricks/508A367A-B997-468E-B468-6F713B08C31A%40nickbasham.com.

[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

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