Just one month after the release of version 1.9.1, OrcaSlicer, the community-developed fork of Bambu Studio, received a new update and was bumped to version 2.0.0 Beta.
As the bump in the version suggests, this is a huge release, and we’ll try to highlight the main changes here:
- Scarf joint seam: an innovative approach to hide seams for FDM printing
- Small area flow compensation
- OTA profile update support for all 3d printers
- A new 3D navigator, marked as a Quality of Life (QoL) improvement
- Improve gap-fill application strategy
- Direct adaptive bed mesh support
- Allow specifying print order within each layer
- Revisited and improved “Ensure vertical thickness” strategy and UX
- New handy model: Orca string hell
- Check and warn users if print speed/acceleration/jerk are higher than the machine limits
- Improve pressure equalizer to be less aggressive
- Option to control the amount of internal bridging, fixing internal bridge missing for some sloped surfaces
- Import of the EditGCodeDialog from PrusaSlicer
- Import of “Counterbole hole bridging” feature from SuperSlicer (where it’s called “No Unsupported Perimeters”)
- Fixed a bug that, in some edge cases, wrong top surfaces were detected
- Corrected monotonic lines now respect user infill/wall overlap setting
- Add configurable short wall/perimeter cleaning for Arachne
- Fixed filament Load / Unload time was not used in time estimation
- Add shell type to STEP importer to fix importing of some STEP files
- Pressure equalizer documentation
- Improve PA tower:
- Support large nozzles
- Remove jerk=1 settings
- Move settings changes to the object to avoid accidentally saving the profile
- Support for Obico cloud integration
- Allow to specify wall directions
- Better Scrolling Over Multiline Fields
- Improve ExtrusionLine::simplify, eliminating many very-short extrusion segments which led to blemishes in thin-wall models sliced with Arachne – Take 2
- Decouple filament minimum print speed from overhang slowdown
- Fix an issue that exporting filament profiles didn’t work for non-bbl printers
- Lots of improvements in profile for various printers
- Lots of small bug fixes
The complete changelog can be found on the GitHub release page along with nice illustrations for the main new features: https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta
We believe that the most anticipated feature was the scarf joint seams, which is best understood with a picture (courtesy of OrcaSlicer’s release note):
If you want to know more about this feature, we advise you to watch the very good and in-depth video of Michael (TeachingTech) over on YouTube