3d printer type and preferred slicer?

LowRider CNC Advice
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Hey everyone,

I am considering starting to print LR4 parts to upgrade my LR3. My printers are ender 3 clones (voxelab aquila) and lately my prints havent been coming out all that great (dimensionally and layers wise). Do any of you print your parts out on ender 3 clones or should I consider upgrading to something like a Bambu Lab printer for better accuracy? At a minimum, I will have to do more e-step calibrations before I get this LR4 print off to the races.

Also, I have always used Cura slicer. There is a specific note about Cura being a little finicky with overhangs, to which I was definitely seeing issues with printing my LR3. I am not really well versed in what to look for to be honest. Is there a better free slicer available that may end up being better suited for my printers?

Thanks,
Jason

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There was a similar topic about slicers recently.

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GitHub - SoftFever/OrcaSlicer: G-code generator for 3D printers (Bambu, Prusa, Voron, VzBot, RatRig, Creality, etc.) has been my go to slicer for quite some time now!

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I’ve done the big pieces on bambu, doing the smaller stuff on my home ender 3, prusa slicer.

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I suggest Kisslicer.
It’s not very well known, but it prints fantastically well and it’s very simple to use once you got your settings dialed in properly.
At first it can be quite indimidating though, also the interface isn’t particularily good looking. But what matters is that it gives really good results, I tried most other slicers and always ended up going back to using it.

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Prusaslicer - it’s not just for Prusas.

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thanks everyone! Sorry that I created another topic. I searched but I must not be that good at it lol!!

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No worries. Someone will search for terms you used and they will find what they need.

We aren’t big on telling people to “use the search function” or deleting duplicates here.

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I really appreciate the grace you guys have on this forum!

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Roughly a third of the parts on the two LR4 builds I did were printed on my Ender 3 Max, largely without issue. Printer was tuned using Teaching Tech’s website, and then Calilantern recently. Majority of parts were printed on my V1E MP3DP v4 running almost twice as fast. All parts were sliced using Cura, something I’ve been using for a few years now. I plan to switch to OrcaSlicer, but, squirrel…

Some things to look for when slicing…

Shared profiles that worked for me, hopefully some of the settings in there help. Please do NOT blindly copy, paste and use. I am no 3D printing pro, and would be more than happy to see someone respond with better profiles for folks to benefit from.

Good luck!

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Thank you for the great explanation on how to look through the slicer. I have unfortunately in the past blindly trusted the slicer and maybe I should look into things a bit more!

This is also where I think some of my problem lies. I have used one of the profiles I got from a youtube video that was great for speed, for some time. So many options to play with in the cura slicer, I am sure I have clicked on the wrong setting many a time!

I also should look into the 6mm nozzles. I am rocking 4mm nozzles at the moment!

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I’m messing with orca now, decent chance I’ll stop using prusa.

I just got everything running on klipper and I’m still doing mainly configuration prints and feeling my way around but so far I’m not missing marlin.

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If you’re using Klipper I would recommend GitHub - Frix-x/klippain: Generic Klipper configuration for 3D printers as a nice set of macros/config scripts.