Why does it switch filament for the infill that is below the future parts that will be colored, then cover it with the base material before even being in the part that has the modifier?
I sliced it black then added a modifier on the last 4 layers to switch color.
Hey so my corners have been printing like this and I’d like to figure out how to get them to print clean. I reduced the outer layer speed to 30mm/s and that definitely helped but clearly not enough. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
I am printing gyoid infill in a xyz calibration cube, the cube comes out pretty good, perfect first laster adhesio. but the infill is always just failed.... i am using klipper and orca slicer. Tried printing infill at 1 mms same result. Idk what is wrong.
Second Attempt at multi color with CFS on a Creality K2 Pro Combo:
It's only a 2 hour print and its been going for two hours and its still only on layer 100 of 449. Unfortunately I can't physically inspect the printer myself since it's at my moms house I just monitor it for her while it finishes a long print since I'm up all night. But the annoying part is its the second time this has happened. For all i know a filament snapped or had a tangle but I also just want to know how to avoid this. Perhaps I just made bad slicer decisions.
I am very new to multi color prints with an auto changing filament system. I have only ever had an Ender 3 v2 pro, and now I have a Ender 3 v3 plus. My mom wanted to get into it so she got an even better printer than me and as all things do especially with 3D printing there is a learning curve.
Hi all, I'm looking for some help with my first layer print on a smooth PEI plate.
As you ca see, I have extrusion gaps. I've tried increasing the line width and/or the flow rate. That will reduce the gaps/defects but it also starts to close of the lettering as the line squashes into the letter.
I'm using Orcaslicer on a K1 Max and Creality Hyper PLA, a layer height of 0.16 and a 0.4 nozzle.
The Process config is as follows:
{
"bottom_shell_layers": "6",
"bottom_shell_thickness": "0.8",
"bottom_solid_infill_flow_ratio": "1.03",
"elefant_foot_compensation": "0.2",
"enable_arc_fitting": "0",
"enable_support": "1",
"from": "User",
"inherits": "0.20mm Standard K1Max (0.4 nozzle)",
"initial_layer_infill_speed": "40",
"initial_layer_line_width": "0.47",
"initial_layer_speed": "30",
"inner_wall_speed": "280",
"internal_solid_infill_speed": "120",
"layer_height": "0.16",
"max_volumetric_extrusion_rate_slope": "60",
"name": "Playing with top surface mods - PLA Creality Hyper - 0.16 - 0.4 nozzle (+Scarf) - CL 2026-07-03",
"outer_wall_speed": "220",
"overhang_1_4_speed": "60",
"overhang_2_4_speed": "30",
"overhang_3_4_speed": "10",
"print_extruder_id": [
"1"
],
"print_extruder_variant": [
"Direct Drive Standard"
],
"print_sequence": "by object",
"print_settings_id": "Playing with top surface mods - PLA Creality Hyper - 0.16 - 0.4 nozzle (+Scarf) - CL 2026-07-03",
"scarf_joint_speed": "50",
"seam_gap": "5%",
"seam_position": "back",
"seam_slope_start_height": "10%",
"seam_slope_type": "external",
"sparse_infill_density": "100%",
"support_bottom_interface_spacing": "0.35",
"support_bottom_z_distance": "0.24",
"support_interface_bottom_layers": "1",
"support_interface_spacing": "0.35",
"support_interface_top_layers": "3",
"support_object_xy_distance": "0.4",
"support_top_z_distance": "0.24",
"top_shell_layers": "6",
"top_solid_infill_flow_ratio": "1.07",
"top_surface_acceleration": "1000",
"top_surface_line_width": "0.45",
"top_surface_speed": "80",
"version": "2.3.2.60",
"wipe_on_loops": "1"
Seems like would be a useful calibration to add to the list now that we have multi-toolhead changers. I started using softer materials recently and had some difficulity toolhead switching and stringing was becoming an issue and my adjusting the toolchange retraction variable in the filament profile couldn't get the value dialed in very easy, then it dawned on me how nice it would be to have a toolchange retraction towers calibration when the toolhead swaps similar to the regular retraction towers calibartion for single retraction in the same toolhead. Might be easier to feature request this in regular Orcaslicer then get Snorca to pick it up maybe.
Does anyone know why the slicer looks like its not gonna print these thin areas? I scaled the model up and still It looks like its gonna leave gaps and not be as sharp as the model
Anyone else see this issue? Using 2.4.1, but this also happened before, just less. Now, if Orca is started while my P1S is off, Orca will crash seconds after P1S is powered on. Same thing but with Orca running and P1S on, and I remove power to P1S, Orca crashes. Every time now. It used to only do it if I was on the device tab. It’s in LAN only mode. Just a bit frustrating. I’ve also had issues on the last couple upgrades (but not 2.4.1) where it will not connect to the device and I have go through several steps like restarting router, re-run setup in Orca, to get it to connect.
I have a Qidi Plus4 with the Qidi Box MMU. Until now I had been printing in just one color, but now I needed to print a multi-color model and I realized that OrcaSlicer doesn't manage my MMU.
What it does is that at the beginning, it starts printing with whatever color I had loaded. I have to load the first color in advance. Then when it has to change the filament, it simply pauses and waits for me to change colors.
I've tried with a new QP4 printer without touching anything, but activating Multimaterial->Single Extruder Multi Material. (Manual Filament change: Off).
The OrcaSlicer version is 2.4.1.
Is there something needed to be installed? A plugin? Or any g-code to be configured?
SOLVED: I was mapping filaments not physically inserted.
I have a model that needs supports, but I want those supports to grow from a specific area only. Instead, they're coming from the build plate. I have "On build plate only" disabled, and there's areas of the model that I still don't want them to come from. Any way to achieve this?
UPDATE:
I may have figured this out. I built an object that fills the area that I don't want the support to come from, leaving gaps where I want the supports to come from. Then duplicated the part in place. Set one part's objects settings as:
wall loops: 0
top shell layers: 0
Bottom shell layers: 0
Sparse infill density: 0
Then set the other part as a support blocker. After slicing, the supports are growing from exactly where I want them to. I haven't printed yet, but the preview looks pretty promising.
I tried to use 2.4.0 and it simply couldn't find the printer(s) and a number of other people seemed to have the same problem. Is it better with 2.4.1 ?
My printers still show up, but it's back to default settings with no evidence of my past configurations. PLEASE tell me this is a bug with a quick fix. No, restarting the app did not fix it. Holy shit.
I am new to 3d Printing, I have an Ender 3 v2 neo, and I'm using Solutech filament. I've been using OrcaSlicer and having issues with stringing. The purple benchy was before I modified any settings, retraction was all out of whack. The green one is my current results, obviously much better, but I still have some stringiness and those weird little posts. I sliced benchy in Cura using the default settings and it was almost flawless, no stringing at all, so I think something is off in my Orca settings. I tried matching the Cura settings as closely as possible.
I have an image of my settings as well. Printing at 200 degrees and my filament is dry, new out of the wrap. I get similar results with 195 and 190, I've printed retraction towers and temp towers, and still haven't been able to eliminate the stringing. Any help would be appreciated.
I've got the CC2 last month, it's my first 3d printer and I'm learning both 3d printing in general and Orca specifically on it, so excuse me if I'm missing something but I'm very new to this whole thing.
So I've started using my printer with Orca 2.3.2 (flathub flatpak, I'm on Kubuntu 26.04), and I did not touch the exhaust fan setting under filament, cooling but noticed it was there and set to 70%. While doing one of my prints two days ago, I reached behind the printer to clean out the purge waste and noticed the exhaust fan seemed to not work, so I checked on the screen and it was only set to 10%, after checking again it really was blowing some air, but it's barely anything.
I went to check my Orca settings, and the exhaust fan settings are missing after the 2.4.0 update. They aren't there in the flatpak version I use, but also in the Snap and AppImages I downloaded to check. The thing is I've also got the 2.3.2 AppImage, I went back to it and imported the profile backups I made before my flatpak got updated. The setting is there, but after slicing a file and printing it, the fan still only ran at 10%. I don't think that setting ever worked, at least for me, after the print I manually ran the case exhaust fan at 70%, and it is quite loud, I would have noticed it if it made that noise before, it's nearly silent at 10%.
So, what's going on with the fan and the settings for it?
Did it actually work and I'm doing something wrong?
Is it really missing now or am I just not looking in the right place?
If it actually is how I suspect and it did not work before, and is now removed - will it be brought back, now working?
I'm on cachyos with a limited edition 5070(matters because some apps don't register the gpu for things like led control).
Updated orca slicer and now dialogue boxes come back as barely able to be seen black text on black boxes. Tried changing rendering mode with an environment variable, forcing dark mode, forcing light mode, disabling gpu acceleration, as well a few other commands that just failed. Any idea how to fix or should I just roll back?
I updated from v2.3.2 to V2.4. First off all my printer & filament presets went missing (I was able to find them and re-import them). But bigger issue is that non of my prints would stick to the print bed.
I checked the nozzle, cleaned my plate no change. So I then reverted back to V2.3.2 and the prints started sticking again.
Would one think it would be the incompatibility between a printer profile and the new Orcaslicer revision? Just seems bizarre.
Does anyone know why my vol speed tests always seem to lift at this section? The second prong lifts slightly and the third adheres fine. I ran the test a second time after washing the plate with soap and water and the issue remains
So Orca prompted me to upgrade to 2.4, and I did so -- and now it's gone stupid. It seems to have lost almost all of my presets, and importing them from the backups didn't help. I tried to download 2.3.2 to revert, but I can't seem to find where the windows installer is for it on the releases page.
...I had something like 20 tuned presets and now there're three, and none of them are the PLA I was working with.
Help would be much appreciated.
Edit: Figured out where the windows Binaries were: https://github.com/OrcaSlicer/OrcaSlicer/releases/tag/v2.3.2
Downgrading has solved the issue, but I'd still like to use the newest version with all my previous config stuff.
I've seen a number of YouTube videos where the creator have a logo that they add to a lid of a box etc.. Theirs seems to come through as "parts" but when I try to import the American flag from Wikipedia - it simply comes over as a single block!? If I open that .SVG in InkScape - It looks fine.. See example below - first Inkscape and then in OrcaSlicer.
The edit window show it has subcomponents:
What am I doing wrong!?
Any and all help is appreciated :) I am trying to make coasters with American flag on them 😉
