Rant: Cura did the one thing a slicer shouldn't do (lemmy.nowsci.com)

submitted 9 months ago by fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

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Apart from blow up printers, the one scariest thing for me about a slicer is losing settings. You spend hours getting your printer dialed in, specific profiles per material and then..

You update your slicer software and it all goes away. I have now learned Cura does this. And does this a lot. Forum posts abound about it. Friends recommend I switch to Prusa because it happened to them. Unfortunately too late for me to write down my old settings, and they're apparently not in the ~/.config/cura folder anymore. Nice.

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[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

While I have always preferred PrusaSlicer, since I do own a Mk3s+, I used to use Cura also. But it just seemed to get worse with every new update/release until I just quite using it at all. Makes me sad because there were some good things things there I really liked.

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