OrcaSlicer 2.5.0 is here, the biggest update in OrcaSlicer’s history, built from nearly 1,300 pull requests by more than 180 contributors.
You can now add features with Python plugins, print on belt printers, mix new colors from the filaments you have loaded with color mixing, give surfaces real 3D texture with Texture Displacement, design parametric parts in the experimental Design tab, and print two to four parts at once on IDEX and IQEX printers.
Toolhead collision volumes keep Arrange, brims and travel moves clear of bed clips, tool docks and other obstacles. Smarter travel planning cuts unneeded moves with nothing to turn on, and OrcaSlicer starts, slices and exports noticeably faster.
It also supports the Bambu Lab H2C and A2L, with mixed nozzle sizes on the H2D and X2D, and brings the new Speed Dial, Precise Seam modifiers, new infill options and hundreds of fixes.
I wonder if I could run this in a browser on the voron itself.
In the browser? Probably, yes, there are browser based vnc clients, but orca itself is pretty resource intensive. So not unless you have some beefy sbc on regular computer on your voron.
Just tried it out for the first time yesterday, didn’t even know they just pushed out a major update. Its my first time using it on a new Creality K2 Pro-Combo. Install was easy, seemed user-friendly with data, and the process of slicing went through without a hitch. Had a .stl file and was uncertain of whether it accepted STLs, so I opened freeCAD to turn it into a .3mf and import it into OrcaSlicer. That whole process went through without any problems. The part wasn’t initially at the orientation I wanted, and after ten seconds of searching, I found the tool to place the surface I wanted against the bed. The settings seemed overbearing at first, but after going through once, now seem intuitive and understandable. Created perfect G-Code for me.
Feeling pretty good about this, using only OrcaSlicer and FreeCAD, I got several components prepared as I wanted. Really feels like glory days of open sourcing.
Orca is great! It takes 3mf, STL and STEP files (which i personally use often, the precision on curves is nice). If your STL has bugs in its mesh, it’ll even attempt to repair them for you
Personal opinion: New features are great, support for new-ish printers is great as well. I don’t like the new focus on Cloud Services.
They are cool (probably), but plugin functionality apparently requires an account there?
Also a lot of surface level bugs came with recent releases (especially on linux).180 Claude contributors whooaa
I originally asked why you said this but I see now I think. I’ve been hearing its a bit buggy too, but I haven’t tried it yet myself.
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Any chance than they launched to Arch, i’m tired to go to the directory with my appimages whenever i need to slice a model
i just use the flatpak. you could create a desktop file for the appimage though if you want it to show up in your launcher, or create an alias to launch the appimage more easily.
There is a repackaged appimage on AUR called
orca-slicer-bin, but I had problems with both Appimages and Flatpacks in recent releases. Fresh 2.5 has multiple reported visual bugs that affect me.Well fuck, thanks for the info, i will keep the 2.3 for now
The nightly build is in the aur, I’ve not checked the standard release
