Mildly Obsessed With 3d Printing. Creator of the ModBot YouTube Channel. Constantly Learning and Sharing My Journey as I Go.
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OrcaSlicer V2.5.0 Alpha is here 🐋
This is the most feature-packed release in OrcaSlicer's history: more than 950 pull requests from over 140 contributors.
🧩 Python plugins: extend the slicer without maintaining a fork, and share your plugins on Orca Cloud
🧱 Texture Displacement: stamp real, printable 3D texture onto any surface
🎨 Color mixing: blend new colors from the filaments you already have loaded
🏭 Belt printing: conveyor "infinite Z" printers, sliced natively
👯 IDEX & IQEX parallel printing: two to four parts at once
✏️ Design tab: a parametric CAD workspace inside the slicer (early preview)
⚡ Speed Dial: press Space, run anything
Plus Tool-changing algorithm improvements, precise Seam modifiers, startup in about half the time, slicing ~35% faster, and hundreds of fixes.
It's an alpha, so some of this is experimental. Back up the projects you care about.
Full release notes: orcaslicer.com/wiki/releases…
Haha getting there the long way is something I am a bit of an expert at 😅. I’ve started the research phase a couple of times and then squirrel onto something else.
Maybe that is the better and more sane call in this case. 🤔 The original plan was to find an existing project, and at the very least like you said it would surely save cost/time. Well then I look forward to checking it out when it’s ready to be shared 😊.
I’ve been wanting to make a tensile tester for years and funny enough one of the reasons I accepted a Z1 Pro was so I could use it after the review to machine some parts for it. I really want to see yours and the process but think I’m going to wait until I’ve designed/built mine.
Seeing it actually drive was such a cool feeling. The because of the amount of time there gone into it so far but also because of some concerns I had with friction in the gearing. I worked it in with a drill bit until today didn’t know how it would actually go.
Jackson took the @LDOMOTORSJASON UNIMOG for its first drive today. One of the wheels has got some pretty good wobble due to print tolerances but it didn’t seem to impact anything. Can’t wait to get the rest of it assembled!
It is not a default no. Am I making a functional part that needs tight tolerances? Do I need absolute best looking part I can get? If the answer is yes than I might tune that filament. However, I use so many machines and materials and defaults get me 95% of the way there.
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Working on a new tool that automatically reverse-engineers 3D scans into really good CAD geometry. This example took a good hour, but man, does it look good and clean!
Created 5 Pro has been super solid. I e thrown some a ton of materials at it and it’s handled most really well.
Here is the livestream playlist for anyone interested in seeing the build process youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
Not much, the creator started this project many years ago where toolheads where very bulky and saw that they could make the bed lighter. Now it’s more of a it’s just super cool build.