Use the new PrusaSlicer 2.3 with ANY 3D Printer!

[@UncleJessy]

That flash through of printers was great!

[@arnoldoehme4741]

Perfect Video as always, Merry Christmas Tom🎅

[@MadeWithLayers]

Thanks! Super easy effect, too!

[@Nachmed]

@@MadeWithLayers what is the name of this cool effect?

[@certified-forklifter]

@@Nachmed probably cut the picture in half and only replaced the left side

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

@@Nachmed It used to be called "split screen", but as long as the camera and lights are never, EVER disturbed and you don't mess with the scaling and positioning of the shots, you can do this easily by cropping the shots in any competent video editor like Premiere or DaVinci.

[@rogeliustachyon7528]

This is the slicer i been using since I got my Ender 3 V2. I have been using the profile prusaslicer already had for the pro and upped the Perimeter print speed to 60mm/s. I see you are a big fan of the V2 so when you get your files crazy tuned, do you mind posting them ?? ?

[@fnerf0]

This request needs more votes

[@twanvincken2533]

Would be really nice!!

[@obe22099]

Pretty sure he didn't read this. It's understandable. Channel's significantly smaller get enough comments to make content creators disable notifications. Maybe one day he'll accidentally read your comment and reply.

[@chrisc9213]

Dude thank you, I used your setting, and for the MK3S that I have been struggling with using PETG and now my prints are printing real nice....You are awesome and thank you for sharing!!

[@garagecedric]

Which setting did the trick? I find petg challenging from time to times on my mk3s

[@patprop74]

Merry Christmas Tom, and all your viewers.

[@muskokaliving2072]

I recently switched from Cura which I've been using for over a year to PrusaSlicer 2.3 because of this video and on my 1st print I saw the best print quality I ever had. The main improvement I see is that the layer lines are so much more consistent and seams seem to disappear! I'm using a heavily modified Creality CR-20. This is a big step for me in print quality. Thanks so much for the video Thomas and the work done by the Prusa team!!

[@sdcflyerz]

SO glad I came across this video, I use Prusas in school and have just ordered an Ender 3 V2, just downloaded the Slicer update 2.3 and its had the V2 added. Looking forward to get my Printer this week. Keep up the good videos!

[@scottbaeder37]

The quick "walk off" near the start was a great LOL for me! THANKS. I use PrusaSlicer on a couple of "home made" printers and love the new features

[@jonathonhebert7042]

I've gotten some incredible results after switching to PrusaSlicer for my custom built coreXY. I don't know what kind of black magic is going on behind the scenes, but I'm thankful for it. The variable layer height tool is absolutely genius, as well as the organization of the settings. Print, filament, and printer settings is so much more intuitive. I run PrusaSlicer on Linux Mint, and it even works with the dark mode theme. The OctoPrint connection is also incredibly helpful. I'm loving it!!!

[@MRLIROCK]

At the beginning of the year I did pretty much exactly what you just presented for my Artillery Sidewinder X1. It works way better for me than Cura because I prefer the PS-workflow (also I achieved better printing quality). For the pre-print G-CODE I recommend waiting for the bed temperature before starting G29.

[@georgedaskalinas278]

For me, the big fix in this version is the "avoid crossing perimeters" function. I was waiting for this to switch to PrusaSlicer. Merry Christmas.

[@MarinusMakesStuff]

Yeshhh, I was playing with the beta versions. Ever since I switched to PrusaSlicer two weeks ago I have never looked back at Cura. God I really dislike Cura now. PrusaSlicer works so much better. Today I printed a beautiful self designed ring with layer ironing for the top layers. I can't even see a single nozzle artifact on the top layer, it's perfectly smooth!

[@shadow7037932]

Yup. Same. Switched over to Prusa Slicer earlier this year. I only use Cura now when I really do need Tree Supports for a specific model. 90% of my work is now done with Prusa Slicer.

[@MarinusMakesStuff]

@ckatlinga Yes I know but it's not nearly as good as the one in PrusaSlicer.

[@master-gbig1140]

What kind of printer do you have?

[@MarinusMakesStuff]

@@master-gbig1140 DIY Prusa i3 MK2S/3 clone :)

[@SittingDuc]

I miss tree supports (for fdm not resin), but PrusaSlicer 2.3 is pretty neat and a big improvement on 2.2 :)

[@StormBurnX]

I know this is kind of off-topic but I just wanted to say, holy shit your lighting and camera setup is so good. It's like eyecandy compared to 99% of other youtubers - even the huge names that I have mad respect for, like 3D Printing Nerd, Maker's Muse, Teaching Tech, etc - they have great setups but yours in comparison seems like a polished professional corporation's setup. Absolutely flawless and the usage of 60FPS for even the most basic facecam feed makes a truly phenomenal difference when it comes to the quality. tl;dr this looks and feels like a professionally-produced tutorial/walkthrough recorded by a film crew rather than a youtuber.

[@RiverRaid82]

Thanks for the video! I switched from Cura to Prusa Slicer about one month ago and since then I kept using PrusaSlicer. The only reason to switch back to Cura from Time to Time are the Tree Supports. In most cases they are way better than the standard supports. I would love to see that integrated in PrusaSlicer

[@iowa6464]

Didn’t have 2.3 on the web sight so downloaded the RC2 . Set it up as described in this video and wow!! What a great first print. No more cura for me. Hope you had a Merry Christmas .

[@Turbo187KillerB]

I like that hoodie man. Also this was a dope tutorial. I've been pointing people towards PrusaSlicer for a while now, and it's just getting better and better. I'll be sending this video to a bunch of newbies this xmas I'm sure!

[@zartas91]

Man those transitions between printers were smooooothh!!! Great videos as always!

[@holski77]

ive been printing for years and i still love all these tips, such a good video for beginners and oldies

[@loutorres0608]

Nice Prusa for the rest of us! Happy Festivus

[@abates3747]

you're the definition of a handy channel, and all that can be right with youtubers.

[@partsdave8943]

Thanks Tom for taking the time to create this VERY INFORMATIVE video. We can count on you to be thorough! :)

[@Faiq_h]

You did a great job, Prusa took notes it seems.

[@sdr_print3d887]

Thank you! Got it to work with my MP Cadet, just minor tweaks on the Z axis and passed a string test with flying colors!

[@christopherenoch4230]

Thanks, Tom... Merry Christmas and a Great New Year! Sound was great!

[@NobodysNightmare]

I was really hoping for this video actually being about new features such as thoughts on ironing. I would still find that interesting ^^ Happy new year!

[@scharkalvin]

My printer is a home brew Repstrap. It's design is similar to a "generic" Prusa I3, IE: bed moves in Y axis, two motors lift the X axis gantry (Z axis), and the direct drive extruder and hot end moves on the gantry (x axis). Mine uses NEMA-23 motors (cheap surplus find) except for the extruder which uses a 400 step/rev NEMA-17. Hot end is a Prometheus with 0.4mm nozzle. Heated bed is a bunch of square sand resistors glued to a 1/8" thick 8"x10" aluminum plate with JB weld. It has a WhamBam flexible metal build surface held down with a magnetic sheet glued to the heated bed. I also have a inductive probe for bed leveling (still have to configure Marlin to use it) attached to the Z-MAX input. All min inputs go to standard micro switches for each axis. Standard Arduino Mega with RAMPS board, 12v power supply (ATX). Uses larger belt pulleys with 3/8" wide belt, and 8mm drive screws (z axis). Printer has under gone gradual upgrades, printing it's own parts. Now has Linear Rail for the x axis, and round linear rods and bearings for the Y. Z axis still uses ball bearing drawer slides! (replacing those with rails would involve a complete disassembly of the printer, and re-drilling new holes in the steel frame pieces. Not going to fix what isn't really broken at this time). I'm not sure what printer profile would be the best to start off with, but anything close to a generic I3 should work as a starting point, probably requiring retarding some of the speed parameters. Which is about what I ended up with on a earlier version of Prusia Slicer, with acceptable results. I always had to set the green flags to red to use any of the supplied filament and print profiles, didn't know how to make copies targeted for my printer. Will try your suggestions, thanks! BTW just loaded RC-2, the "Stable" version of 2.3 is still not out.

[@Exlr8Films]

Finally, looks like some of my favorite features from Simplify 3D are now in Prusa Slicer :) I might actually make the switch now

[@CaptainC597]

Thank you Tom! Exactly what I needed. Got my ender 3 pro with bltouch beside my prusa and did not want to use cura anymore

[@Deaner3D]

man Prusa is so smart with this move. Because so many of us eventually move to Prusa's offerings after using Slic3r (prusa slicer) and want a machine that just_works.

[@PhoenixRevival00]

This video is gold! Thank you to you and Prusa for producing this!

[@ElectricFS]

Really smart of Prusa... get more non Prusa printers natively supported and bring the users a step closer to the own environment. I‘ll take it. Already have my eye on an MK3s, but currently still quite happy with my heavily modded i3MS from Anycubic. Happy to see I can now easily try out the Prusa Slicer. Pretty sure this tips the scale towards a MK3s soon though :)

[@AndrewHelgeCox]

Merry Christmas Tom and 3D Printing community!

[@Hagantic]

Just tried this on my Anycubic i3 Mega using the provided profile in the slicer. Haven't touched the printer in a year. Just leveled the bed used new, dry pla and WOW. Prusaslicer yields INSANELY good prints at VERY high speeds.

[@OtroPl4n]

Aaaa brother! Now I can finally use my ender 3 pro! I had problems with the first layer all the time (magnetic bed) and now with Prusaslicer it is a pleasure to be able to squeeze this machine to the fullest, in the first test the impression came out perfect! Always use Kisslicer and Cura. Thanks from Argentina

[@EmbraceMaking]

Been using PE Slicer for my custom build printers for a while now... wouldn't use anything else. Best slicing software out there!

[@skimboards4life]

Thanks for this guide! I followed it carefully, but found that although I was getting good "squish" on my first layer, it was still full of gaps between lines. I brought the Extrusion Width -> First Layer back to 0.75mm which has completely rectified the issue. This was on an Anycubic Mega X.

[@Gambiarte]

Thank you! I was using Slic3r by the Repetier-Host and I was feeling "behind" the others, this motivated me try something different, looks like doing all in the same software is much better, also, I was used to the older Slic3r, so it is very friendly.

[@nbiish]

I was totally done with Prusa (uninstalled and everything) today trying to get the settings down for my Tenlog IDEX. But your video totally saved the day and im happily printing with colors and all now😭🙌💙💙

[@themanyone]

Great video overall. Just remember wipe while retracting + lift Z adds quite a bit of time to tall, narrow prints, unless in vase mode where they don't apply. I go with only lift Z to save time. They still look nice, if you print one object at a time.

[@MrBaskins2010]

PrusaSlicer has excelled by leaps and bounds over cura and Simplify3D. The infill settings are top notch

[@Rob_65]

I started using Prusaslicer a few weeks ago. I have to check my profile against your recommendations to see if I missed anything. This slicer is much better than Simplify3D, I just cannot sum up all the features that I love in Prusaslicer. A few are: modifier meshes, much easier change in profile settings compared to S3D, start printing automatically by sending the file to Octoprint directly from Prusaslicer, spiltting up print settings, filament settings and printer settings. This also is the first program, apart from CAD programs, that makes proper use of the 3Dconnection SpaceMouse. Version 2.3 adds the paint on support which makes using custom supports very easy. At this time the 2.3 version is not yet available as official install package and only as "release candidate" (2.3.0 rc2). I guess the Prusa team is now enjoying a few well earned Christmas holidays.

[@kira07]

This is THE best video you ever made! its so great I would download it and save it on my NAS for future generations, (I hope that the fact prusa will take over all sclicers now - will force simplify 3d to release an update soon)

[@bcrx7]

Thank you Thomas! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

[@jleadbetter29]

Been using 2.3 since alpha 1. It is GREAT! Paint on Z seam is a game changer! Cura and Simplify have some work to do.

[@sasodoma]

How do the supports compare to Simplify3d? I have switched to Slic3r PE a while back but find myself going back to Simplify3d for anything that needs a lot of supports.

[@jleadbetter29]

Not sure...don't use supports a lot. Never in PS.

[@ShadowRam242]

I've recently installed the new PrusaSlicer for my custom printer. I had some changes/issues I needed to sort through with the latest Reprap Firmware on Duet 2. There was a new Reprap option that didn't work for me, I had to go back to the old Reprap option in PrusaSlicer. Thanks for telling me about background processing! Didn't know that existed.

[@anthonyrich1592]

Merry Christmas, Thomas! 🎄 Thank you for all that you do. Here's to a much better year in 2021!

[@Blue.4D2]

Merry Christmas! Thanks for all the videos in 2020! ⭐️😊👍

[@marcus_w0]

Merry Christmas, Tom. Thanks for the video. I think I'll give it a try.

[@the1legend118]

Thank you so much, this was very informative!

[@asslamkhan4209]

Great video after watching I was able to get my clone printer of Prusa I3 metal frame, Ender 3 style X axis and extruder. I still have to do some tweaking for my printer. I got my first today in a very long time. Thank You very much.

[@FoxForceG]

I wish this video came out a month ago when I changed from Cura to PrusaSlicer. Great video, would have saved me a couple of failures.

[@rpavlik1]

Prusa Slicer is a pretty nice upgrade for my Replicator 2X. I found somebody who had made some FFCP profiles for it, I've done some improvements to them and adjustment to the rep2x, and they work pretty nice! A bit slower print speeds inherited from the ffcp by default than what I was previously running in Cura, but lack of failures makes up for it, and I can gradually inch them up.

[@lynxshd]

Tom you Rock thank you so much this helped me really up my Migbot Prusa i3 clones print quality and fix a few issues i was having with the prusa software.

[@DrDisintegrator]

Prusa once again bringing nice things to ALL 3D printer users, even those using competitive products. This and the fact that they support 'open' HW designs keeps me coming back. Happy MK2/S and MK3 user for years now! Thanks Tom for giving this concise overview of how to use this great software with other printers.

[@SparrowHawk183]

Fantastic video! Thanks for such high quality and fun content.

[@Tubaii25]

Happy holidays Tom! Stay safe!

[@mctainshcom]

As of 25 Dec 2020 14:00 UTC Mac version is still 2.2.9

[@thisplayer01]

Thanks, Tom happy holidays! I am looking forward to your postings in 2021, always full of valuable insights and presented in a friendly, clear and concise manner - good stuff. BTW, by 201225 PrusaSlicer is rc2 on github.

[@StargateNeo]

Thanks for sharing! Really helpful as usual! Merry Christmas.🎄

[@joetkeshub]

Helpful despite its speed... your speed ;) Thank you Thomas!

[@ThrunRC]

Super Video hat mir sehr gut gefallen. Muss mir den PrusaSilcer gleich mal anschauen. :-)

[@WhamBamSystems]

can wait to compare it to our S3D settings and see results!

[@ameliabuns4058]

"Faster than what's considers safe speeds" evil laughter in input shaper. THERE IS NO SAFE SPEED FOR ME

[@j.g545]

yea bottleneck became the cooling.

[@BLBlackDragon]

A good tutorial for all skill levels. Excellent.

[@obe22099]

That fish eye lens made me stare at the ender3v2 for 10x longer than i should have trying to figure out what model that is. It looks 2x as massive.

[@omarc_br]

Not a Cura fanboy here, but in 4.8 it has a lay flat feature (you just have to click on the face you want it to align to the "bed plane"). Adaptive infill is there too. BUT paint support location seems just awesome!

[@MrKnoppersesser]

Lay flat is nice. Simplify 3d could do that and Cura can do that too for a while now.

[@Cristian_M83]

This video was very useful!. Thanks a lot for share your knowledge Thomas!. 🙌

[@vfxforge]

thanks for this, I just had to setup my 5 year old wanhao i3 again, this worked a charm

[@PNWT3ch]

Oh Yes please and Thank you. Happy Holidays 3D Community!

[@captainmcadams]

Why do I get the idea that your getting me to set this up for my dolly clone ;-) Prusa knows what they are doing! Merry Christmas, an I promise I will transition from Cura soon... I just know where everything is I want!

[@calypsoraz4318]

I already know that I'll be watching this video a few times

[@JB-zu5pb]

playback at 0.75 works great

[@axelSixtySix]

@Thomas : as soon as you copy print settings from Prusa's printers, all the linked filaments are available yet.

[@tronicpixel]

I think I should test prusaslicer with my sidewinder x1. Thx for the quick how to 👌

[@DarrenGerbrandt]

Cura was being a pita for me lately, I don't know if it was the new updates or just my settings but I have not been able to get a nice print from it, however, I've never been able to get Prusaslicer really dialled in for my E3Pro or my E3Max both of which are using a 0.6 nozzle. I used your "trick" to get a ready-made profile and BAM getting decent prints again, I have been tweaking it slowly over the last week have now started to delve into setting my own dependencies and start g-code for my filaments like linear advance based on nozzle size, not sure it's necessary but just going by the example already set by the filament profile. Without this video I probably would still be bashing my head against the wall using Cura and getting crappy prints and at some point I will probably go back to Cura for at least the tree supports but that may be a ways away now, always did like the layout of PS over Cura anyway, the settings are so less cluttered.

[@henrymach]

As of 12/24/2020 it's still RC. By the way, Merry Christmas!

[@karlosss1868]

Yes... Apparently 2.3 official will be available in the first week of Jan.

[@Blankschyn]

Could you please upload the created universal profile? That would be great!

[@martylawson1638]

looks like it's time to upgrade. The dynamic cubic infill and time estimate by feature type look SUPER useful! Oh and PursaSlicer has been my go-to slicer for a few years because it handles IDEX and multiple tools better than Cura. (Cura un-retracts the new tool at the wrong time, there are fixes but they're a lot more work than just using PrusaSlicer)

[@demian7513]

So true about 2021 !!! Happy holidays to everyone. A better year to come for everyone. Throw away (if you didnt already) your good luck charms for 2020, they were not!!!!

[@SergiuszRoszczyk]

And now you made me into thinking of doing profiles for my MP select mini and uninstall Cura... (I already use it for Prusa mini). Thanks! ;)

[@DaveWirth]

Quick and packed with good info

[@shadow7037932]

Prusa has been doing well with Prusa Slicer while Cura has been a bit stagnant. I hope this kind of thing allows more people to start using Prusa Slicer.

[@ImaginationToForm]

I'll have to give this a try. One of my printers is a Weedo F152S that nobody else seems to have so I'll have to make a profile myself. I can use Simplify3d for both my F152S and CR10S Pro but that slicer is so far behind on new features. I had really liked the paint on support and monolithic infill features of PrusaSlicer.

[@IronMan-yg4qw]

superslicer is the best slicer!!!!! do a complete vid on superslicer!!

[@anycost]

Awesome stuff! And Merry Christmas Tom and chat!

[@spamcan9208]

Glad you told me about the firmware thing, I'd hate to accidentally overwrite mine. And why did I ever bother with Cura? Just the fifteen minutes I played around with it I liked it. It seems like you have more control over each object on the build plate (like changing infill settings, and if cura can do that too then it was MUCH easier to find in this slicer) and a better layout. Even the small things like not being able to use my scroll wheel on the preview of the nozzle movement but I could on the layer view annoyed me but prusaslicer could do both. So glad I found this video because I've been putting off trying a new slicer. I guess the real test is tomorrow when I do my first print.

[@PlanetaOskaras]

Thanks, Thomas! Great and useful info! Let's print!

[@minecrafter0505]

Great, I just switched to Cura a month ago and I now regret that xD

[@justinmacgregor1851]

Tree supports come in handy though, although the new features do seem very appealing in this

[@paulmilne3038]

Thanks for this an excellent starting point and a great video

[@licensetodrive9930]

Perhaps it's time I look into PrusaSlicer... I've been using Slic3r for the 2+ years I've had my Prusa i3 Mk3 and it's done me very well. Mostly I design & print things for their mechanical properties but occasionally I print things for their aesthetic properties so I'd like more control over support and that ironing looks good.

[@Simon-nx1sc]

This looks really good! Thanks for the clear tutorial as always. Now excuse me while I YEET Cura.

[@PhilipHowson]

Seems it's still on 2.3.0 Release Candidate 2 at time of writing this comment. Been playing with the beta, and TBH it was working very well. The paint on seams didn't work perfectly for me on the beta, you'd paint an exclusion somewhere and it would still stick the seam there, but with some messing around I was able to get it to move the seam on my model. Hopefully improved in the release version.

[@ThisDoesNotCompute]

That "lay flat" feature alone is enough to make it worth updating!

[@Thomllama]

Cura and Ideamaker have both had that for over a year now. LOL. and Ideamaker has a MUCH EASIER, direct type in of all location/rotation setting over Cura and Prusa. the Paint on supports look great on Prusa, but again, Ideamaker has had manual supports since,.. I can remember...

[@theshadowman1398]

Lay flat has been in cura for eons

[@TamTPSC]

Lay flat already available in 2.2.9 you don't need to update to 2.3 to use it.

[@jnygaarddk]

Are these tricks still relevant/needed for ver 2.6??? The stealing of a prusa profile for non-prusa printer....

[@chrisBruner]

The copy profile stuff at 7:12 is confusing, I'm going to need a map. I've been using the beta and there's lots of gotchas here. This is the stuff that wizards should be handling. On the other hand, this slicer is pretty sweet.

[@danielhertz7266]

Prusha is killing it. 💯❤️

[@skaltura]

brilliant marketing from Prusa

[@grantsbirds1207]

you make the best videos

[@kraemrz]

Thanks just what I have been looking for

[@YousefCat21]

@Thomas Sanladerer Hey Thomas! I really need your help. I recently started using a new laptop to slice my gcode and 2 problems have shown up that weren't present before on my prusa mini: 1.every time I import a new print to my printer it wont show mw the print time or how much filament it takes to print it. 2.every time a print finishes instead of resetting to the upper right corner of the print bed and going up the y axis, now it just goes to the bottom left corner and presses right up against the print bed which is leading to problems. if you know any way to fix this please tell me. thank you in advance :) btw my profile is prusa mini with a .4mm nozzle using Prusament Pla. 😅

[@surprisemechanics6298]

Wow, that was really cool of them.