Prusa 3d Slicer Download [PORTABLE]
Yoshi Heffernan
It is working again! First deleted the Prusa Slicer and then deleted all (!) Prusa folders in the Application Support folder and then re-downloaded the Slicer 2.6.0. Have to reconfigure everything now though. Does not matter! The main thing is that the slicer runs again. Thanks again for the tip with the deletion!
Ranamed c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\prusaslicer and went through the startup wizard. It didn't crash through it, I then tried to add an object and when I clicked Add it crashed. When I run PrusaSlicer after that it returns to the same behavior and crashes within seconds of start up with no input.
Okay something is wrong with the driver and OpenGL. Installed OpenGL Extentions View and ran the render tests. It fails when it tries to run the test with API 4.5 and crashes the program. This would make sense why other slicers are not working either.
On windows when you click on the shortcut its basically telling it to start the program that the shortcut points to. You modify the target of the shortcut to add the extra to the shortcut "C:\Program Files\Prusa3D\PrusaSlicer\prusa-slicer.exe" --sw-renderer then whenever you use the shortcut to start PS it will use the software rendering and not the problematic open gl drivers.
Hey everyone. New here but I've been using Prusa slicer as my preferred slicer for a little while now. Really enjoy it and getting great prints. I've got a question however. In Cura (I have 4.8 but I believe this has been there a little while now) there is an option to change the infill multiplier effectively doubling, tripling, etc the line width of the infill pattern. This is nice if you want your infill visible in a design. I printed a camera mount for my machine recently but had to use Cura because I couldn't figure out how to do this in Prusa. Here is the design I'm referring to: :4634481
Thanks very much! I'll take a look at both settings and do some testing. Do you know fs the extrusion width setting you're referring to something I would see in the slicer or would I just have to print and see how it turns out?
the infill is described by
Fill Pattern,
Layer height
Fill Density,
Extrusion Width
If you change the extrusion width then the pattern size has to change to maintain the required Fill Density
the layer height and fill pattern remain independent.
you can't see a massive thickness change between left and middle, but you can see the pattern size has changed,
if you look at the Left and right panels, you can see a significant difference in both line thickness and pattern size.
a 0.4mm nozzle will print extrusion widths greater than 0.4mm because the Meplat (Flat area around the nozzle opening) effectively smooths the hot filament out as it extrudes.
the slicer takes the extra width into account during processing and ensures that there is adequate space for the wider extrusions.
i have a issue here and i am at a stand still. i had the previous slicer version and when i learned about 2.3.0 i uninstalled old version and installed new version everything was working great for about a week until the software requested to update, and this is when everything went bad. i kept getting a message saying something about " a file was corrupted...." and it wouldn't let me open the program. so i uninstalled 2.3.0 and downloaded it again and now i cant even install it cause i keep getting this "the file you are trying to open is corrupted.." so now i don't have the old version nor the new version and i really liked using PrusaSlicer! any help in this matter will be appreciated it!
The esteemed colleague is correct. In laymans terms, the slicer shows in "sliced view" how parts will effectively be printed line by line - if the vertical layers are too thin to print with a certain nozzle then the slicer will (have to) disregard these layers as unprintable. Its nicely visible if you try to print fine print letters e.g. on a plastic business card with a .4mm nozzle. The fineprint will usually become visible again if you switch the slicer to a finer nozzle, which will basically act as a proof of the root cause.
I tried printing overlapping objects in Prusa Slicer (basically load two STL files and I move them to overlap in the Slicer) to achieve a composite object. However, it didn't go well. It seemed that the slicer was still treating the two objects as separate and created funny redundant tool paths that ultimately caused an ugly surface and lead to the nozzle crashing. Should I be able to overlap objects like this? I assumed that Slicer will treat the overlapping objects as a combined mesh and only print features that needed to be printed. Was that naive? Do I need to take the objects into something like Meshmixer and merge their meshes first?
I have tried this with Mesh mixer months ago and I had problems with sizing the parts and though it was easy understanding the logic with mesh mixer I would rather do it in Prusa slicer where I can deal with the size I want for the parts.
Thank you for your comments, Robin. I see. The free Fusion360 program gives me headaches when dealing with meshes from other programs with the triangular faces etc. I was wondering if there is a way to use one object to make boolean cuts in another object in Prusa Slicer while also allowing resizing for tolerances. I hope that is a future slicer tool !
Doing it to a model that is already in parts as you have pictured in your first post though is a whole world away in how easy it is to do. In that scenario you have to manually place parts and estimate their positions and hope the holes are perfectly placed. Something that is not easy in the slicer except with trivial shapes.
Thank you, Neophyl. I will explore yours and Joans idea. Wish I knew how to make the split barrel as Joan mentioned but, so far I just went ahead and CAD software to cut the hole into the pants, then will reduce the leg in Prusaslicer to compensate for tolerance. Will try and print later tomorrow and see how it goes.
If you scale down the leg to compensate for tolerance, the leg will - well - be scaled down, meaning no longer fit the rest of the model, you just need to scale down the bolt you generate to fit in the hole to be scaled. Or, as Joan does: use a hole in each side of the model and print fitting split barrels instead, no need to scale anything of the model... I attached a 3mf with a slit barrel (including slicer settings for perimeters) much like the one in Joan's picture, took 1 minute to generate in Fusion (Create cylinder, add sketch to to surface, draw rectangle, extrude to other side of cylinder, round 4 edges, export to slicer), for your scaling and printing pleasure.
Personally my view is that it ALWAYS better to do modelling, including stacking etc in some proper modelling software. Leave the actual slicing to the slicer. Right tool for the right job and all that ?
Hi, I'm using my Prusa slicer to print on the Ender-5 Plus. I prefer this slicer to anything else i've found. I want to change some of the settings for supports etc, but they are "padlocked" and nothing i can do or click on seems to unlock them so I can change them. Is the slicer just unable to change these for the Ender and therefore the options aren't available or is there something i need to do?
When the locks are grey, you just change the value and they unlock to orange. Though a few of values across slicer are not adjustable unless certain configurations are available/enabled, but those are few. Synchronize Support with Layers is one of them. But, you first need to enable support generation in order to change anything on that page.
Then, I installed last version of prusa slicer and tried to print one personnal design. I saved the G-code on Prusa USB mem stick, plugged it back to the printer. I selected the file to print...but the display shows extruder Temp = 170C!!!
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