Slicer's What are you guys using ?
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My favourites lately are IceSL, PrusaSlicer and SuperSlicer (prusa fork).
Fusion 360 slicer is still free, and worth every penny!
free as in included with the license. I’m excited about arc support, but hopefully they also allow us to increase the output resolution for non-circular splines, or slice Bézier curves directly. AFAIK, marlin already supports G5 bezier control points. -
@bot said in Slicer's What are you guys using ?:
Fusion 360 slicer is still free
you sure? it's gone from my f360 since few days ago
I’m excited about arc support
last week when I tested it the support for arc (G2) was not there yet. The only slicer that directly support ARC from the ones I tested is KISS (and that postprocessor in python made for octoprint)
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Where are you looking in Fusion for the FFF slicing? It's in the manufacture workspace, under the "additive" tab.
G2/3 arc support is not yet in the FFF slicing of Fusion, but they said it would be coming soon in a blog entry.
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@bot said in Slicer's What are you guys using ?:
manufacture workspace
the whole "manufacture workspace" is gone
was there just 2 days ago
I think I seen somewhere some notification that some trial was over but.. anyhow I was not too impressed with it
so far IM is no1 for me.. but will be checking the f360 if I manage to get it back -
Anybody knows what happened to the E3D slicer?
https://makezine.com/2019/02/20/e3d-launches-new-3d-printing-slicer/
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@zapta said in Slicer's What are you guys using ?:
Anybody knows what happened to the E3D slicer?
Nearly 30 releases later…
…we’ve targeted the bugs and issues you raised and the user experience has come a very long way from where it was.It's not bad, even know how to send gcode directly to duet board
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There is no reason it would be gone. It's still included in the free license. Can you... like... look again? Or restart Fusion 360 or something? I guess if you're not worried about it, don't worry about it... but it's definitely still there and included free.
*not actually a robot
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@arhi said in Slicer's What are you guys using ?:
Nearly 30 releases later…
It hasn't had an update or even dev activity in a year now. It's either dead or deep stealth.
I use PrusaSlicer when I just need a quick mechanical part done.
I use the master branch of Cura when I need more detailed control.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s43vqzmi4d2bqe2/AAADdYdSu9iwcKa0Knqgurm4a?dl=0&lst=&preview=README.md
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@bot said in Slicer's What are you guys using ?:
There is no reason it would be gone. It's still included in the free license
https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/manufacturing-extension
...bye fusion!
(oddly enough https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Fusion-360-Free-License-Changes.html still list manufacturing for Personal license, but after they introduced that page back in 2019 I've been waiting for other features to be silently dropped from the personal license, time to find and learn an alternative)
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@Phaedrux said in Slicer's What are you guys using ?:
@arhi said in Slicer's What are you guys using ?:
Nearly 30 releases later…
It hasn't had an update or even dev activity in a year now. It's either dead or deep stealth.
that "30 releases later" was quote from the website
I tested it few months ago and it was "lot improved" to what I tested last time (~year+ ago)
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@bot said in Slicer's What are you guys using ?:
There is no reason it would be gone. It's still included in the free license. Can you... like... look again? Or restart Fusion 360 or something? I guess if you're not worried about it, don't worry about it... but it's definitely still there and included free.
I "readded it" back trough extensions by "purchasing it" with credits (not money)
but this does not look like an "included free" option ... I do have "unlimited" balance as I have "education" account but I don't feel very comfortable with it after this incident
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@arhi said in Slicer's What are you guys using ?:
but I don't feel very comfortable with it after this incident
its not the first free feature being removed, when they created the teams feature we lost cloud translation (for importing solidworks etc) with no option to do it locally.
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I oscillate between superslicer (PrusaSlicer fork with a bunch of interesting added features) and KISS (premium license). I'd stick with KISS if it had better positioning tools, support controls, and vase mode. I'd stick with superslicer if volumetric auto speed worked with gap fill, and if the default supports would be easier to deal with on single material machines. Currently, it seems I flip-flop between both whenever the issues named annoy me enough for a switch.
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@bearer said in Slicer's What are you guys using ?:
...bye fusion!
Some years ago I decided never to use stolen software any more and the last two (altium designer and solid works) were removed from my computer(s) in 2016. I moved to onShape as it was free (but all your designs are public - that was ok for me) but then they fiddled with licencing and terms and conditions and I moved to fusion360 (I like onShape much more). Looks like fusion is not a solution neither
... so attm openSCAD and FreeCAD look more and more like a solution -
That is not the manufacture workspace, that is the manufacture EXTENSION.
The workspaces are on the left of your screen, where it says "Design" or "Generative Design" or "Render" or "Manufacture."
They didn't remove any free features! Please stop spreading misinformation and please try a bit harder to investigate.
*not actually a robot
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@bot said in Slicer's What are you guys using ?:
They didn't remove any free features!
On-Machine Verification
5-axis Machining
Toolpath Modifications
4-axis Rotary(of which I only used 4th axis so the others may have been added after it was no longer free, but, yes, free features have been removed)
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Those were added to the manufacture EXTENSION, which was always a paid upgrade but offered for free for a month during the pandemic. They never existed as free base features in Fusion.
I believe there is still some limited 4 axis capability in the manufacture workspace. Nothing that was free before was removed.
*not actually a robot
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This topic is highly discretely disguised Illuminati s*&t we're dealing with here. People, do you not see how so many posts incline to the side of going-to-monthly-forfeit-part-of-my-revenues-for-software ?
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@bot said in Slicer's What are you guys using ?:
Nothing that was free before was removed.
Been so long since the 4th axis was functional that I haven't tested it; but it was definitively a change at some point eaons ago.
Cloud translation and shared projects (with write access) as well. Their reasoning for removing some formats were to protect against missuse - and they put both sketchup and solidworks on the no list - doesn't quite add up, but meh. Revison control and branching they removed for everyone but I get this nagging feeling I'm forgetting something else.
Not to mention their user surveys which basically said "how much would you be willing to pay", the writing is on the wall.
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True, there were some features that were removed in October 2019 when they announced the changes to the free licenses.
What I meant, was that nothing from the manufacture workspace was removed after the trial of the manufacturing extension.
