While s3d is good and really easy to use and the print preview is the best in the industry - honestly if I were starting today I'd probably use PS and flashprint. I've never managed to get dual extrusion to work with s3d - while it's really easy and works well with flashprint. And in fact while my klic-n-print does use s3g files - I don't use s3d for it anyway. So it was money well spent and I have definitely got my moneys worth from it.Īnd today if i did need the s3g capability - I'd just use flashprint, great little slicer and free.
well appart from the worst slicer ever: makerware desktop. I actually got a fairly comprehensive demo and run through of s3d at a TCT show by the very nice people behind the 3DP giant printers.Īlso s3d was the only slicer to fully support the replicator clone mighty boards and the s3g file format at the time. I think I paid around £70 for my sed licence and at the time - there simply wasn't anything else around to touch it. And yes they are out there - and no don't ask me where :-)
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Would i pay £117 for simplif圓d when PS is free ? I think on balance if i were starting printing today and not 6 years ago. Instead of just changing a single print speed I still have to go and do 4 or 5 different settings.Īnd as print speeds are something I change a LOT. Some of the print speed settings can be set as percentages - and some can't. Seems weird that it's not part of the machine setup routine. Right time to walk dogs before it starts raining again. I'm running it throiugh to the end anyway, just out of curiosity.
MY first comparison print is going to be a failure - cos it's a 2mm thick phone stand with print in place hinges and I set the layer height at 0.3 when it needs to be 0.2 It's installed as a completely seperate program - so nowhere near as useful as it could be, if they'd integrated it into the slicer itself. PS comes bundled with pronterface - which is a printer control program. Something I've often used to check a prints progress if I can't actually see it without moving. You can even run a simulated print.Īlso as S3D has built in printer control and communication you can actually run a simulated print synched to a print running over usb. you can run through by layers or - what I usually do - by watching the actual head movements. Sliced preview - PS is fairly basic and lets you step through whole layers only. I've had a good look around and I cannot find a z-axis setting anywhere. So potentially you could load a print that was too tall for your printer to handle. On PS when you set the printer up it asks you for the x&y sizes but NOT for z-height. Scaling and viewing are easy and obvious on each.Īlthough PS does have a cut function - which is something I've always missed in s3d and tend to load things into flashprint to cut them up. So you can still smoosh - but the PS slicer makes the first layer that bit smaller to compensate for the lip.Īnd something s3d does not - to my knowlege - do. It's basically a way to adjust for the lip you get on the first layer if you smoosh it to make it stick better to the bed. Which threw me initially (fortumately all settings have comprehensive explanations/tips in both programs). I did find one setting in PS that I really like. It's pretty easy to find all the settings in both programs. These are fairly similiar and if I weren't so used to s3d's horizontal tabs, I reckon I'd have no problems at all with PS vertical tabs. WHY did they do this ? Talk about a long winded and unnecessarily complicated process. PS: every single little bloody thing has to have the speed set individually. So to change overall print soeed I just change one setting. S3d: you set a main print speed and all other's are set as a percentage of that. So I've set up prusaslicer (hereafter called PS) for Saffy (sapphire pro) and I'll do a few of the test prints that I originally did but with s3d (simplif圓d).īefore prints a few initial observations.
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As a die hard long term user of simplif圓d I thought I'd download the latest version of prusaslicer and see what the differences were and where each program was better or worse than the other.
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