Rapidly Improve Your 3D Prints with Hidden Slicer Settings

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In this video, I share 11 3D Printing Slicer settings that you never knew you needed. This video is brought to you by PCBWay, your one-stop-shop for PCB prototypes and assemblies. Visit them at jle.vi/pcbway
Knowing the ins and outs of your Slicer of choice can mean stronger 3D prints, faster print times, less time spent in CAD customizing your models and much, much more.
In this video I'm going to share a handful of lesser known Slicer settings that will help you take your 3D prints to the next level. I'll be demonstrating in "Orca Slicer," which is a fork of Bambu Studio, which is a fork of PrusaSlicer, but it should be the same in Cura. And, it will work with ANY 3D Printer (FDM, not resin) that you choose to use.
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00:00 Introduction
01:38 Slicer Setting No. 1: Solid Infill Modifiers
02:18 Slicer Setting No. 2: Modifier Areas
02:56 Slicer Setting No. 3: Negative Volume Modifiers
03:40 Slicer Setting No. 4: Close Holes Slicing Mode
04:23 Slicer Setting No. 5: Hole X-Y Compensation
05:54 Slicer Setting No. 6: Combine Infill Layers
06:25 Slicer Setting No. 7: Variable Layer Height
07:09 Slicer Setting No. 8: Ironing
07:55 Slicer Setting No. 9: Cut Feature
08:22 Slicer Setting No. 10: Complete Individual Objects
09:21 Slicer Setting No. 11: Per-Object Settings
10:41 Conclusion
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  • @thenextlayer
    @thenextlayer Жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU for watching! Let me know what you thought of this video, and if you really loved it, consider supporting my work on Patreon: www.patreon.com/thenextlayer

  • @PunCala

    @PunCala

    Жыл бұрын

    You are on a good track to becoming a great KZreadr. Some of the humour, especially the delivery, doesn't really land, and I suggest removing the moving printer in the grey background as I found it very distracting. Same thing about adding your face to clips of the slicer doing its thing: it's distracting from the actual thing I want to look at. Technically the video is impressive.

  • @hwbehrens
    @hwbehrens Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for including information for newbies as well. A lot of the existing beginner material is fairly old and/or outdated, applies to Ender-style printers, and so on. I feel like we're having a bit of a shift in the industry with the new more-automatic printers, but content has been focused on reviews, comparisons to older models, or basically just targeting experts rather than people who are just getting into the hobby now that the barriers to entry are starting to come down. I had no idea slicers could do so much vs modeling software!

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Agreed! I take requests. Just message me on discord

  • @milliwaysbartender1726
    @milliwaysbartender1726 Жыл бұрын

    Enjoying the outdoor shots and greenscreen, it's a nice change of pace and looks very high quality!

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!!! Great feedback. Soon we will be in the new studio but I’ll do a green screen for you!

  • @josephsmith601
    @josephsmith6019 ай бұрын

    I love how he mentioned how those 3D printing slicers built their software off each other. 👍👍👍

  • @jellocubez7
    @jellocubez7 Жыл бұрын

    This is immensely helpful! As a noob, your videos have helped me print better quality models much sooner than I thought I would be able to !

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow so glad. Thanks for the comment!

  • @Vez3D
    @Vez3D Жыл бұрын

    thanks man !!! I learned couple things there :) Keep rocking it. Your content is awesome

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow! If you learned something that’s amazing! You’re an expert!!

  • @theblindman8027
    @theblindman8027 Жыл бұрын

    one of the best 3d print tips and tricks i have seen in a long time. thank you!

  • @franslaurijsen1714
    @franslaurijsen171411 ай бұрын

    Some more tricks/ tips. Use more a 0.6 nozzle. Print your top surface layer with one shell and set the extrude to 0.42. Now the flat spot of the 0.6 nozzle will go over the previous layer for the second time (partly). The effect is that the nozzle is ironing and printing at the same time, the surface is silky smooth. Try it. Did you ever set your walls/ shells at 3,5 ? This means that after 2 layers the 3 one have one wall less, this one wall will be laid there buy the infill, as a infill wall. this create that the infill is more connected with the walls, making your part stronger.

  • @djispro4272
    @djispro4272 Жыл бұрын

    The hole filling was one I have not heard of, but Combine Infill is one I definitely want to use!

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Nice!

  • @DanielSanPedro
    @DanielSanPedro Жыл бұрын

    Hole X-Y compensation alone is worth gold. Thank you!!!!

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad!!

  • @jasonh3109
    @jasonh3109 Жыл бұрын

    Great stuff!!! Thanks for the tips!

  • @daretoreef
    @daretoreef Жыл бұрын

    Great info! Keep it coming! Your videos have come such a long way!

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much!

  • @daveapplemotors
    @daveapplemotors10 ай бұрын

    This is the best video for me right now. I will use it as reference. Thanks. You have convinced me to learn more Bambu slicer. What I learned from you today could have saved me a couple hours last weekend...

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    10 ай бұрын

    NICE! Now, try OrcaSlicer, I did a video about it ;)

  • @jasonchaney5382
    @jasonchaney5382 Жыл бұрын

    This came along at a really good time. Now that I have a machine that... just works... I've been spending more time dialing in slicer settings. But I had no idea most of these things existed. So, thanks for that.

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Amazing! Thanks

  • @PetrPolach
    @PetrPolach4 ай бұрын

    So useful video! I learned tons! Thank you!

  • @odntht
    @odntht3 ай бұрын

    I started to use the Orca Slicer few days ago... I was using the Ultimaker Cura... Oh my, Orca Slicer seems a whole new level thanks to all this settings you mentioned. I know it's not the only software that has this things, but to me it has the whole package and it's really easy to use! Thanks for the tips!

  • @802Garage
    @802Garage Жыл бұрын

    I think your video style is improving. Less over the top and forced jokes, tons of good info, very professional. I'm assuming you have a lot of prior filming and editing experience?

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah almost 10 years. Thanks for the kind words.

  • @802Garage

    @802Garage

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thenextlayer Sorry if that sounded like a bit of an underhanded compliment BTW. I should have started by saying your channel quality is already massive. Your delivery of the info is improving and I just think you are setting into a groove for this niche that will connect well with the audience. Good stuff!

  • @jsa2145
    @jsa2145 Жыл бұрын

    good content :) Orca slicer is great, especially with the auto generated filament tuning tests, multiple build plates for one project, etc !

  • @avantgardethemighty6724

    @avantgardethemighty6724

    Жыл бұрын

    Sounds like a good combination of most popular/handy features of other slicers in a new skin... Nice! Time to try it out soon ;)

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    I haven’t even started playing with those!!!

  • @uskeeze2131
    @uskeeze21315 ай бұрын

    Wow I didn’t know about most of these!

  • @Sembazuru
    @Sembazuru Жыл бұрын

    Don't forget after customizing the settings for your print in the slicer, save the project out as a .3mf so I you decide you need to tweak something after closing the slicer you can get back to where you left off.

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Yup good advice

  • @ax-cs
    @ax-cs6 ай бұрын

    👏👏👏 You save me lot of time. Thank You.

  • @errolfoster1101
    @errolfoster11014 ай бұрын

    thank you these should make life much easier

  • @GeorgeWells00
    @GeorgeWells00 Жыл бұрын

    A very, very, VERY useful video. Your information provided me with new super-powers for my 3D printing! Thanks for making it easy to understand. Now, can I use Orca Slicer with my new SV06 and SV06 Plus...and my aging Ender 3 Pro?

  • @wiebel7569
    @wiebel7569 Жыл бұрын

    Complete individual objects is also a nice way to print batch of tiny objects with a filament leftover, so when the filament runs out only one print is unfinished.

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    I do the same!

  • @CATpoopX
    @CATpoopX Жыл бұрын

    Great vid man awesome job

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @roadview3868
    @roadview38688 ай бұрын

    I love you man your are the greatest :D So much things I'm learning from you :D

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    8 ай бұрын

    Wow thanks

  • @johnnyrocko7105
    @johnnyrocko7105 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent video !

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Stay subbed more coming soon

  • @JohnJerde
    @JohnJerde Жыл бұрын

    Great video. Thanks

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the comment!

  • @sierraecho884
    @sierraecho8847 ай бұрын

    Great video. I would add one more, with arachne you can heavily modify line widths from function to function. For instance with my 0.4mm Nozzle and 0.2mm Layer height I use 0.8mm infill line width, 0.5mm outline perimeter, 0.6mm inner wall perimeter. This incereases print speed by sometimes 25%, the quality stays the same. This needs a little bit of tuning but works very well generally speaking. I also use a 0.25mm Nozzle to print 0.6 line widths you don´t even have to change nozzles and you can print very fine lines in the same print if needed. Arachne was the best and biggest change for FDM slicers and people didn´t even notice.

  • @paulwipf943
    @paulwipf943 Жыл бұрын

    Man u sumplify things great video

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Glad you liked it

  • @paulwipf943

    @paulwipf943

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thenextlayer wat u think of the anycubic kobra max

  • @mr_mac_86
    @mr_mac_8610 ай бұрын

    Couldn't find most of those in Cura.......so i may have to switch over to this one....... i dont comment much, but that being said, great video as always 👌

  • @dr.grimm.
    @dr.grimm.9 ай бұрын

    leaving cura... thanks :D

  • @zephyfoxy
    @zephyfoxy5 ай бұрын

    I think this was the final nudge I needed to use Orca over vanilla Bambu Studio lol.

  • @sealion7951
    @sealion7951 Жыл бұрын

    Thanx, Maybe next time show us how these features work in orca such as variable layers

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    I can do that

  • @allangraham5507
    @allangraham5507 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome video but having difficulty finding these settings in Cura. Would be helpful if you could locate them in a few slicers so that we can follow along with you. Great video though!

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Fair feedback. But have you considered trying Prusa or Orca?

  • @L3X369
    @L3X36910 ай бұрын

    I noticed a few new features I didn't used before, I didn't know orca slicer is that good, so I will try it. As for printing object one by one and removing them while the printbed is still hot, it will result in crooked pieces, specially if they are thin, like for instance gears or such. Also, might not be that good if you skip a step on the motor while scraping the object. I would at least insert a pause comand in the gcode after each object and make the printer do some type of queue printing.

  • @WwAiRtRhIiOnR
    @WwAiRtRhIiOnR Жыл бұрын

    Great and informative as always. I got one big question: the objects in #10 and #11. Are these hotweels tracks connectors?! I (my kids) always have a shortage of them.

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Yessir!!!

  • @chadwolf3840
    @chadwolf3840 Жыл бұрын

    Great stuff. I’m a hack and didn’t know about any of this stuff.

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Nice. Enjoy!

  • @charliereading1241
    @charliereading12419 ай бұрын

    When I got to around 9:28, I had to laugh. I recognized that shape pretty easily: Hot Wheels track connectors. I had added support for mounting them on wooden ramps.

  • @gregchwelos
    @gregchwelos4 ай бұрын

    @thenextlayer Another great video! Thanks. I don't see it mentioned, so I'd thought I'd point out that there is an easier way to set per-object settings in Bambu/Orca. In main panel on left, in the Process section header, there is a selector for Global/Object. Just select Object there, and then select one or more objects and use the same UI (Quality/Strenth/Speed...) to tweak params for the objects. And it highlights what you've tweaked. I'd post a screenshot if I could. Click Global to go back to that view. Cheers.

  • @xALFx13
    @xALFx13 Жыл бұрын

    I see that you use Orca Slicer and so am I. just started and some what like it. Question where do I go to be able to see my start gcode and to see the print on my sonic pad.

  • @punkreeperful
    @punkreeperful2 ай бұрын

    Do you know hiwntinmake infill parameters thicker?

  • @antonioamuy7414
    @antonioamuy74145 ай бұрын

    Hey buddy thanks for the video. I appreciated it. I have a question for you... Have you tried to slice the same object on Simplify 3D and Orca? I really can not find why Simplify is so faster than Orca Slicer. Could you bring us 3 or more points to speed up prints on K1 for example.

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    5 ай бұрын

    I don’t have simplify

  • @azerioner6595
    @azerioner6595 Жыл бұрын

    Hi I have been persuaded by your videos to switch to Orca Slicer but afraid to mess up my Ender 5 with Sonic Pad... How should I set it up and configure on Orca Slicer?

  • @sakkary9081
    @sakkary9081 Жыл бұрын

    how much difference between the 3 orca slicers is the web based difference or slicer difference regards

  • @McSneaky95
    @McSneaky95 Жыл бұрын

    Time to make those holes bigger! ;)

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    :)

  • @sidneyking11
    @sidneyking11 Жыл бұрын

    Hello, I am relatively new to the 3D printing world. I have a ender printer from Creality. What CAD software would you recommend to use to learn to create 3D object? Also what slicer software? Thank You

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Stay tuned. Video coming on that topic in a couple weeks….

  • @mtalbot74
    @mtalbot74 Жыл бұрын

    Are you using that slicer on your Voron. Awesome video.

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Yessir!

  • @AlexDoesYouTubes
    @AlexDoesYouTubes9 ай бұрын

    I really wish Orca had better settings for variable layer height, Cura definitely blows it out of the water there.

  • @TyWooly42
    @TyWooly4210 ай бұрын

    nice enunciation

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    10 ай бұрын

    Thanks :)

  • @LonghornTexasFan
    @LonghornTexasFan11 ай бұрын

    Can someone show/tell me how to change the support density in Orca slicer please?

  • @1r3k1970
    @1r3k19702 ай бұрын

    I'm writing with Google translator, so sorry for any mistakes. Do you know where there is a table option where you can see several print profiles and see where the others are. There is a window with a profile on the left, then the "=" symbol and on the right another profile. I accidentally discovered this and now I don't know where this option is.

  • @pepsicolaboy7280
    @pepsicolaboy7280 Жыл бұрын

    prusa slicer has high detail and super detail puts ironing to shame i made a custom plate for my nest thermostat with braided inlay it came out flawless warning it takes a while to print

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    iiiinteresting

  • @trevor7409
    @trevor7409 Жыл бұрын

    anyone know what the combine infill layers is called in cura? or if they even have anything similar to it?

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Infill height

  • @skyrim4713
    @skyrim471311 ай бұрын

    For some reason my printed parts are mirrored how do I fix this?

  • @bond2k3
    @bond2k3 Жыл бұрын

    Can you also use OrcaSlicer with a Prusa MK3S+?

  • @Hanzi2u

    @Hanzi2u

    Жыл бұрын

    No

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, you can add any printer with custom profiles.

  • @Hanzi2u

    @Hanzi2u

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thenextlayer that's always something

  • @logicalfundy
    @logicalfundy Жыл бұрын

    Variable layer height has been a mixed bag for me - sometimes it saves time, but often it just increases the time even when I have it set to prefer speed.

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Hmmmm which slicer?

  • @logicalfundy

    @logicalfundy

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thenextlayer PrusaSlicer

  • @JanickSchmidt-ck6kf
    @JanickSchmidt-ck6kf4 ай бұрын

    where I ask how you make a Galloway cow

  • @bettydaltonnewbold2019
    @bettydaltonnewbold2019 Жыл бұрын

    How do you get to the MODIFIER AREAS? Right-click on something?

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @bettydaltonnewbold2019

    @bettydaltonnewbold2019

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thenextlayer - Right-click on WHAT, please?

  • @TS_Mind_Swept
    @TS_Mind_Swept4 ай бұрын

    1:20 I think my main question then is "can you view and control the printer remotely?" like if you check in on it and see the thing exploded, can you stop the print from ur fone? 🤔

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    4 ай бұрын

    Yes but if you want to do it truly remotely you need Octoeverywhere

  • @TS_Mind_Swept

    @TS_Mind_Swept

    4 ай бұрын

    @@thenextlayer Hmm 🤔

  • @LocalWebsUK
    @LocalWebsUK7 ай бұрын

    Tried to download and install but it seems that it requires Microsoft Edge? This only appears to run on Win 10 and above. Not about to purchase a new machine just to run 'free' software when Prusa Slicer does the trick.

  • @pepsicolaboy7280
    @pepsicolaboy7280 Жыл бұрын

    prusa slicer has infill setting

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Yep

  • @logicalfundy
    @logicalfundy Жыл бұрын

    OrcaSlicer does look interesting - but I'm kinda confused as to why you'd want to monitor your print from the slicer. Sure, it saves a step, but other monitoring software like OctiPrint give you so many features and control, and allow you to monitor the print from any computer or even on a cell phone. It sounds like it just distracts from the primary reason for a slicer, which is to prepare the 3D model for printing.

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    It works with Octoprint, too. It shows whatever interface you put on the printer

  • @Hanzi2u
    @Hanzi2u Жыл бұрын

    Orca slicer doesn't support that many printer i did find a bit lackluster.

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    :( sorry to hear

  • @poepflater
    @poepflater9 ай бұрын

    CHecked it out, but it doesn't do Sailfish.

  • @ppBizU
    @ppBizU11 ай бұрын

    "hot wheel łącznik" - how come?

  • @jamesreynolds8838
    @jamesreynolds88386 ай бұрын

    Him: "Filing your holes" "Get your head out of the gutter guys" Me: What the heck is the gutter version of "Filing your holes"?

  • @technicallyreal
    @technicallyreal Жыл бұрын

    Am I crazy or is Sli3r most likely pronounced simply as "Slicer"? Back from the leetspeak (1337) days where letters were substituted with similar looking numbers (3 is a backwards E) in order to increase the cool factor or something.

  • @thenextlayer

    @thenextlayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah it’s kind of a joke poking fun at people who pronounce it that way lol

  • @RusakovLA
    @RusakovLA Жыл бұрын

    there is no "Close Holes" in PrusaSlicer.

  • @travistucker7317

    @travistucker7317

    Жыл бұрын

    There is towards the bottom of slicing or layers tab on newer version anyways. There's also even/odd or something i believe.

  • @Kendor67
    @Kendor676 ай бұрын

    You know not to be a jerk or anything I haven't subscribed to your page yet and it says the first thing I saw you have given so little information for anybody that you can't do what you're telling them to do maybe you ought to think about putting out a video telling people specifically how to download from the software and how to compile it as a software engineer. This was a stupid ridiculous video it gave me no help pointed me in no directions and you gave no links to download any of that stupid software all you gave a link to which I still don't understand is a page that has multitudes of release information but I have yet to find a download link. It would be nice if you would make a video and then give reference links to the ship you're talking about you gave really no information and I can't understand where all of these people are giving you thumbs ups on your comments about how this was such a great video you gave no information you wasted 20 minutes of my time and then trying to find that software couldn't find it wasted another hour so thank you very much I will not be subscribing to your channel and this is a video. Sorry for being so rude but when you put out a video and you tell people this is how you should do it you need to give them all the information about it.

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