Anybody use a different slicer?

[3D Printing Tips and Tricks]

So we have Prusaslicer, Orca Slicer, Bambi Studio, the Snapmaker slicer… maybe others all of which forked off of Slic3r… the slicer which years back nobody used (I.e., no company based their slicer from). Today the Slic3r base is the hands down winner of the slicer game.

Anybody here using a slicer NOT forked from Slic3r… Mattercontrol? simplify3d?

[Lee Foulkes]

I was tending to use Cura with the FLSun v400. But don't use the printer very often now :(

I always found print time shorter compared to orca on that machine, bit acknowledge not like for like comparison in terms of what settings may be on or off.

[Ray Price]

Ahh, simplify3D was the first slicer I used when I started and I rode that train for a few years maybe.  Just checked their website to see if they were still around.  Not sure if they are, but the latest version, 5.1, was released in May of 2023.  They do advertise themselves as the "#1 commercial slicer" , which I guess is true, since I think they are in a field of one😂😂😂

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[Sean]

I still use simplify 3d for my older printers outside of my Centauri
Carbon because I used it for so long and have all my other profiles
tuned to my needs on that platform.
I'll use MatterControl every now and again because of its oldschool
TinkerCad integration. It's simpler to open the program locally and do
what I need rather than logging in to the web version. It also has a
nifty feature for mesh bed leveling without needing a leveling sensor.
The downside is that you must level the bed while USB-tethered using
manual movement commands. You essentially perform manual leveling at
grid points using the paper method, and the slicer logs the Z values
as you go. From then on, it uses that mesh when slicing and outputs Z
commands for the compensation in the G-code. I haven't used it that
much, outside of some experimenting with my old Printrbots.

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[Bryan Eckert]

I was using orca for my V400, but you can add 3rd party printers to Bambu Studio now so I use that. 

I did notice Cura does seem to generate better optimized gcode for delta printers!

But damn I hate Cura's interface.

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[Kurt A 3d]

Used to use Simpllify for my Monoprice iiip ( wanhoo duplicator?).    Now I live and breathe prusaslicer on my XL.   For our older makergear m2 I use prusaslicer as well.

I have actually done reasonably complex design work inside prusaslicer. But thats because I use tinkercad.   Haven’t gotten my head around a better cad tool.

Kurt-A

[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

Bryan - I will indeed DOUBLE DOWN on your comment. I think the UI SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So - YEARS Ago - like 2016-2019 - in that ballpark - using the WanHao D6 - which was a printer swap with JetGuy - I used an older version of Cura that was WanHao stamped - and Jet Guy insisted I DO NOT Upgrade Cura. So - I stuck with at version for YEARS! Then - whilst at Essentium - we were all using S3D (which I had used years before Extensively at SD3D - where I learned S3D - and I became a HUGE FanBoy of it) - but, they changed gears at   Essentium - and switched to Cura - and this was like 2022/23 - and it was the current version - and I HATED IT!!!

And - Understand - I started WAY Back with RepG. So - I've used Quite a Wide variety of slicers - including the MakerBot MakerWare desktop app.

Anyway - yeah - I would Prefer Never to have to go back and use Cura EVER Again!

As for Simplify3D - Yeah - those folks went STALE for like 4-5 years between versions - literally going from 4.0 to 5.0 - and that's when EVERYONE Left and walked away from S3D - and they Then shot themselves in the foot with the new licensing and cost methods - to Further annoy existing customers. 

Oh well - that's how the Cookie Crumbles...

-K

On Saturday, August 22, 2026 at 6:07:49 PM UTC-4 Bryan Eckert wrote:

[Kurt The 3D Printer GUY!!]

As for - " Haven’t gotten my head around a better cad tool. " - that's probably cause it's Hard to Teach an Old Dog New Tricks...

😜

[Kurt A 3d]

https://blog.prusa3d.com/prusaslicer-3-0-preview-built-for-the-future-of-3d-printing_137672/?fbclid=IwVERDUAUFBVxwZG9mBWZkaWQWUNpT0k_E-6FZg2tdmXxNyCXe79WIzmV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzE3Mzg0NzY0MjY3MDM3MAABHnAIzrHhpiDR2FpuHtU52s2eVX5yCJi9tM0yd-tZQq4jzDOCEWe4sqr95SRx_aem_EH4u7JQvVRdxmkrcJgwoKA

A single 3mf file can now have beds for different settings, even different printers in it.  For example I could have a dummy 13 with PETG parts on one bed and PLA parts on another, with the PLA parts being sliced for a MK3 and the PETG for a COREONE - seems to let you organize an entire project in one 3mf file.   

You can in theory submit a job to multiple printers from the same instance of the slicer at the same time.   Right now its only an alpha release so only support for prusa printers

Other limitations I am sure - looks exciting 

Kurt-A