OrcaSlicer 2.5.0 is here, the biggest update in OrcaSlicer’s history, built from nearly 1,300 pull requests by more than 180 contributors.
You can now add features with Python plugins, print on belt printers, mix new colors from the filaments you have loaded with color mixing, give surfaces real 3D texture with Texture Displacement, design parametric parts in the experimental Design tab, and print two to four parts at once on IDEX and IQEX printers.
Toolhead collision volumes keep Arrange, brims and travel moves clear of bed clips, tool docks and other obstacles. Smarter travel planning cuts unneeded moves with nothing to turn on, and OrcaSlicer starts, slices and exports noticeably faster.
It also supports the Bambu Lab H2C and A2L, with mixed nozzle sizes on the H2D and X2D, and brings the new Speed Dial, Precise Seam modifiers, new infill options and hundreds of fixes.
180 Claude contributors whooaa
Personal opinion: New features are great, support for new-ish printers is great as well. I don’t like the new focus on Cloud Services.
They are cool (probably), but plugin functionality apparently requires an account there?
Also a lot of surface level bugs came with recent releases (especially on linux).Any chance than they launched to Arch, i’m tired to go to the directory with my appimages whenever i need to slice a model
i just use the flatpak. you could create a desktop file for the appimage though if you want it to show up in your launcher, or create an alias to launch the appimage more easily.
There is a repackaged appimage on AUR called
orca-slicer-bin, but I had problems with both Appimages and Flatpacks in recent releases. Fresh 2.5 has multiple reported visual bugs that affect me.The nightly build is in the aur, I’ve not checked the standard release