your Opinion on slicers, s3d, cura, craftware, kiss, slicer, … and wich one you are using and why?
See, that’s why i insist on pronouncing it Slic-3-r.
Agreed @Thomas_Sanladerer
Simplify3D; I’m an old-school Skeinforge user. I like options being exposed to me. More options is better. Hiding everything behind dropdowns, or a single stupidly long list is annoying (Cura, which you have to go in and HAND-SELECT every damn option to enable them; can’t enable by group.)
Cura was the first one I tried and it has worked well for me.
I switch around, but default to Cura. The machine that drives the printers has Cura and Slic3r, and a friend has a copy of S3D that I’ll try from time to time if a model is giving me trouble.
I default to Cura because its actual slicing behavior is staggeringly simple (and kind of dumb), which makes it fast and predictable.
Cura, I have Slic3r, but Cura is able to slice models that Slic3r will jackup.
Lol, only 3 people using craftware, I think its great.
Cura because I have the Ultimaker
Cura. It’s easy and mostly does the right thing. Layer draw order could be better; it often skips around even straightforward rectangular layers, leaving marks and lines in top surfaces.
I wish Cura had more detailed options and the ability to build a library of profiles like Slic3r, but Slic3r’s UI organization can be really obtuse and it somehow doesn’t provide print time estimates, so it’s for emergencies only.
I am using S3D because I paid for it. Otherwise I would probably still be using Slic3r.
Support generation is great when needed, though I prefer printing without it. I think S3D might have improved my prints slightly, but that is more anecdotal.
I started with Slic3r but now I work with Cura because its more visual
Slic3r does what I want. Switched from skeinforge long ago and haven’t felt the need to switch again.
I started with Cura, tried Slic3r, then S3D and have stuck with it. I needed the better support of multiple printer types to use the same slicer with cartesian and delta printers and cura 2.1 at the time did not do what I needed in an intuitive and straightforward way.
I feel like people make far too much out of the cost of S3D because of other free solutions, without factoring in S3D is focused and has a functional plan to continue support and development not a ticket to ride the hype coaster. I am into this 3d printing thing and plan on continuing, I partly choose S3D because I expect having to support that which I value if I want it to be around tomorrow.
I want my slicer to stick around and improve and not be part of a grand marketing strategy for a printer I dont use. I think its valiant that some try to do open source free software, but I have never seen one that was actually better than a focused team of professionals paid to create software. Often they are first explorers of new territory in software development, but just as often when people have ‘settled the land’ the explorers move on to new explorations. So I do not feel I can count on free experimental software to keep the developers interest for as long as I am going to be using a slicing software. I dont want to relearn an interface I want to minimize the variables as much as possible and understand the workflow without outside events forcing disruption. So I pay for the best independent one I could find. Lucky for me it’s the best one I have used.
I have started with Skeinforge-Slic3r-Cura- and now use Simplify3d. I think Simplify3d is worth the money, but the new version of Cura 2.3.1 gives very similar results. I am not so sure Simplify3d is worth it anymore now that Cura is starting to surpass it. S3d rarely adds any new “innovative” features as well, but I do still prefer the gcode viewer in simplify3d over the layer view in Cura.