$200 for a 3D Printing Slicer?! Simplify3D v5 Review

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Would you pay $200 for a slicer in 2023? Reviewing Simplify3D v5. The Long awaited update to my favorite and most used slicer. But is it worth it?
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@UncleJessy Жыл бұрын

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@tuskawilla Жыл бұрын

Would you say the Neptune3Plus can print a full sized stormtrooper and Mandalorian helmet on the bed, or is it too small? It seems it should be large enough and not need the 3Max.

@booradley5127 Жыл бұрын

I bought it back when they were promising a free upgrade to 5 when they released it, but the caveat was that the free upgrade expired at the end of the year and it took them another 3 years after that for them to actually release v5. They wont be getting another dime out of me ever.

@TKs3DPrints Жыл бұрын

agree with you there updates should not cost. and that is all V5 is for me. and that your locked to one computer. nope.

@wrathovtyr5579 Жыл бұрын

Same. They’ve been promised upgrades for years. It was really great when it came and and I still use it but there for sure is better stuff out there now. They are 100% scam artists and I am surprised they don’t have a class action lawsuit against them yet. Would never put another cent in to them either. A shame because they had a good thing. Going.

@jtjames79 Жыл бұрын

Well that answers that. Guess I don't need to bother with the rest of the video.

@josch1710 Жыл бұрын

@@wrathovtyr5579 You know, running a company is totally free, and they are just raking in the money.

@markburton5292 Жыл бұрын

originally it was also 149 for a perpetual license with free upgrade. they then changed the page to say only within current version. the quality difference isn't large enf for me to pay for an upgrade. They also aren't adding enough new features to justify i

@freakern Жыл бұрын

I moved two years ago from Simplify3D to PrusaSlicer. With PrusaSlicer i got 99% of the quality i had with Simpify3D, but had so much more benefits and options s3d did not have. Even the new v5 does not have all that, what PrusaSlicer has. The live Support stuff is nice, but well... i can paint and wait those 3 sec to get my result, no problem there. Multi-Color in PrusaSlicer is awesome, i love it! The differentiation between material, printer and Filament was done much better in PrusaSlicer. And the biggest plus is the "Send to Octoprint" feature. I love it. I can slice, my printer is ready and woken up, send it to the printer and GO! Sorry, S3d, you ain't gonna get my $40 and strip me down to just one pc at a time.

@jeffdunehew Жыл бұрын

It was a fantastic slicer and I was even using it up until a few days ago, but I'm not going to give them money for the way they handled everything. The amount they want, the way they left us in the dark...

@sierraecho884 Жыл бұрын

Puts on pirate hat....

@Sycoinc Жыл бұрын

@@sierraecho884 then 3d print one using that slicer and literally put it on :P

@williambell4591 Жыл бұрын

Agreed about leaving us in the dark fo SO LONG!

@jclosed2516 Жыл бұрын

@@sierraecho884 Hmm... Question is... Is it even worth going through that trouble, or is it maybe better to learn working better with the free slicers? Don't forget it seems to be that S3D V5 is buggy at the moment, and the guys behind S3D do not have a great record concerning updates...

@technodrone313 Жыл бұрын

i feel you but its worth 60 bucks.

@3DPrinterAcademy Жыл бұрын

Idk why anyone would use Simplify3D when Cura is free and very good. (Great vid as usual Jessy!)

@tvideo1189 Жыл бұрын

Actually, CURA sucks big time with its completely screwed UI, but PrusaSlicer is a GREAT alternative to S3D

@justinchamberlin4195 Жыл бұрын

I’ve found Cura’s interface far easier to use than PrusaSlicer/SuperSlicer (and especially IdeaMaker), even as a beginner three years ago. Ultimately, though, the best slicer is the one that works best for you…except S3D. What all of the modern slicers have over S3D is, you know, actual development. V5 seems to keep relying on features that were already present in V4 (speedy slicing, good print quality, and fast printing) and then added a bunch of 2017-vintage features from other slicers…while asking for 1/3 more money for new users, 100% more money than previous versions for existing users, and with bugs that seem to me to make it impossible to use properly. You can rotate or scale prints but not both? What? I would rather suffer through minute-long slices with Lychee Slicer than spend a king’s ransom on broken, obsolete software that probably won’t even get a bug fix update for another 16 months. I’d also argue that Simplify 3D will only have two kinds of new users going forward: people with more money than sense who are new to 3D printing, and industrial printer buyers who’ve been suckered into getting S3D by their printer supplier (fellow Stacker 3D sufferers, I feel your pain). The only other revenue they have a chance of getting is from existing V4 users with Stockholm Syndrome. If I were to be truly unkind, I would say that V5 is one final cash grab and we’ll never see another update again.

@kkuenzel56 Жыл бұрын

I hope Simplify 3D is listening! I took the plunge for the $60 upgrade because it has been my favorite slicer but I totally agree with you that paying $199 for a single machine license is insane. I hope the get they hint. If they ever go belly up, will the software stop working?

@UncleJessy Жыл бұрын

You know... that is a very good question. $200 is absolutely crazy for a slicer in today's market especially for one that has as many bugs as v5 does right now and I didn't even touch on everything

@TheJacklwilliams Жыл бұрын

@@UncleJessy Agreed and? I’ve been tempted to buy many times before at the previous price point. At this one? No thank you. Especially with Cura and Prusa slicer being free? I’d think, they’d set the price point MUCH LOWER in an effort to get more sales and produce volume by building an audience that clearly shouts “THIS ONE IS BETTER AND WORTH IT!”. Better enough to be 200 bucks???

@foam27 Жыл бұрын

So many better slicers out there for free now tho. Screw them and their pile of poop.

@HackMonkey Жыл бұрын

If they go belly up, that would kill the ability to move to another machine, and presumably to reinstall? A call home function is generally how this is handled.

@MaxAethon Жыл бұрын

I remember when I first got into 3D printing there were debates almost daily about Simplify3D vs Cura. Over the years the debates slowly disappeared and I thought people were finally smartening up and realizing that spending $200 on a piece of software isn't going to magically fix your printer's problems and you actually have to put in the work yourself. Surprised to hear the company is still around and people are still throwing away $200 for something they can do for free.

@UncleJessy Жыл бұрын

I really do hope that they try to refine v5 further. V4 has been my main slicer of choice but man the other slicers have really come a very very long way and are now providing updates multiple times a year now

@MSalmanAlvi Жыл бұрын

@@UncleJessy How can i learn 3D Printing and Desiging For 3D Printers ? Help

@SkeeterPondRC Жыл бұрын

As a former S3D user, it actually made a huge difference in my prints. Since you clearly never used it, you really don’t have much room to talk about software fixing issues and needing to put in the work. It was the fact that the slicer itself was far and away better. The prints were cleaner because of the way the files were sliced.

@coghostfox Жыл бұрын

@Dana Williams what a wildly aggressive responsive. Slicers have no effect on print quality, the profile settings do. The default profile settings might be nice, but any real maker would be adjusting them; but I'm sure you already knew that.

@TheJacklwilliams Жыл бұрын

@@SkeeterPondRC As a former user? My question is, what are you using now and why? I can agree with your response considering, I had the same reaction, stopped myself and thought “What’s the secret sauce?”… Especially, if I were to buy into the software now, at this price, what do I get that I can’t get from Prusa Slicer or Cura? Now, keep in mind, i’m only 2 years in, so still learning however, the thing that put me off about that is I’m old school and the thought if I bought in at this price point, I’d have to lay out more cash for the next major upgrade? Anyway, I’d like to think, this is an extremely well designed, maintained, engineered piece of software. From what I’ve seen, I’m led to believe so.

@davidcamacho3739 Жыл бұрын

Been waiting on the community to test the update and the results seem to be unanimous. Wait until support is actually shown going forward, or straight up "No". Thanks for what you do, my man!

@UncleJessy Жыл бұрын

Yeah, some sort of "hey we see some of the issues you all are reporting and working on an update to address some of those in X days/weeks/months etc" would go a long way

@dmyers9230 Жыл бұрын

PrusaSlicer has paint on supports. You can very accurately control where support will print sand it’s easier to remove. Plus the upcoming tree support is going to be game changing for clean removal and using less material, therefore faster prints.

@torq21 Жыл бұрын

I'm new to 3D printing and PrusaSlicer and I noticed this feature as well. Maybe it doesn't function in the same way as what he is looking for?

@KieranShort Жыл бұрын

It does but i don't think that's what Jesse is wanting. Rather than paint a 'go zone' where Prusa slicer will add sorts, I think he wants the actual supports to pop up/be rendered immediately in the viewer - before slicing.

@jclosed2516 Жыл бұрын

@@KieranShort That's indeed what he means. However - Keep in mind that the rendered supports only give an indication where supports are added. The actual supports after slicing look very different.

@technodrone313 Жыл бұрын

v5 is night and day better than prusaslicer.

@dmyers9230 Жыл бұрын

@@jclosed2516 Agreed, and prusaslicer's supports release much cleaner. Plus, it will be even better once 2.6 is out. There is no point to paying for S3D anymore. They are not more advance and will continue to fall further behind. They had their day (and it was great in that time, I used it exclusively.). But now everyone else free has caught up and passed them and will only continue to get even better. With S3Ds release cycle of every couple years and they are already behind, it's over.

@t77chevy Жыл бұрын

to place wanted surface on bed for your Mac use CMD+L or go to edit and select "place surface on bed " then mouse click on wanted side on model , same as 4.0 , also noticed better over all prints with 5.0 vs pursa and that's with a mk3+

@UncleJessy Жыл бұрын

Well damn... just learned something new 😂

@wingtipsworld5909 Жыл бұрын

Unless i misunderstood you, my v4 of s3d absolutely can be oriented by a selected surface... in s3d at the top select the edit tab and then select place surface on bed, then click on the model the surface you want to be face down and it does it, and has done it for a while. I did buy my s3d a few years ago at $100 and im debating on spending the 60 for the upgrade. I highly doubt i would spend 200 as a newcomer to s3d. Going to finish watching your review and just take in some more feedback for a bit before dump 60 bucks for the upgrade. It had better knock my socks off and cook me breakfast for the total amount spent on s3d vs the free slicers out there.

@Glenj48 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I've been using Cura as it came with my printer, Prusa is a slicer I am considering learning, Lychee is early, but promising. What I will not consider doing is handing a company $200 for a slicer when I can get multiple open source alternatives for free.

@makeitreal1851 Жыл бұрын

I would if they promised some sort of custom setup, custom support, etc. Otherwise it's not worth it.

@TheSquigy Жыл бұрын

Perfect timing! I just bought myself a Sovol SV01 and am looking at what slicer to use!

@nomishome7546 Жыл бұрын

I believe that at some point it was once of the best slicer for new users, I went from Repetier-Host to S3D based on the results of one print and was happy to pay $149 for the easy of use and performance increase, but when that stopped improving/updating the software I moved to Cura for a short time but at the moment I use PrusaSlicer and in the process of looking at others but I will not be upgrading to version 5, until there is a massive improvement. As always great content

@AlansWay3DPrinting Жыл бұрын

I would say that the slicing time is a pretty negligible win. The difference between S3D and Lychee sure, but the 4 and 6 second difference from Prusa and Cura respectively is pretty negligible on a several hour print. In my work flow, the slicing time is never a concerning factor that I can't wait a little for a settings change to take effect and view the output. Maybe others are different but sub 20 or 30 sec they are all the same to me.

@fatboy1271 Жыл бұрын

I happily paid for the upgrade. Yes, there are issues; however, it is the Slicer that gives me the freedom to print in the "non-traditional" manner that I print. Also, as ModBot said, they don't make hardware, so they need to be supported through payment for their software. I made fun of them on Twitter when there were no updates, I purchased in 2017, but I was also happy to see the post about an actual update coming soon! Most everyone else that wanted an update decided to crap on them, before any reviews were even out, for finally having an update...? Your points are well taken and accurate from what I can tell, I haven't had those issues, but I personally found upgrading from V4 to V5 to be money well spent 🤘🤘

@AlAmantea Жыл бұрын

I bought S3D years ago, all the way to 4.1. I won't be upgrading to S3D 5.0, mainly because of the way they abandoned users and went dark. I started using the SuperSlicer fork from Prusa Slicer, and find it to be way more capable, has smart supports, manual support slicing with brush sizes as you mentioned you wanted, super fast, flexible, and it's free. No way, S3D... too little too late.

@tonykyle2655 Жыл бұрын

TY for the review. I had given up on them long ago when they didn't deliver their product for so long.

@danielkrah5129 Жыл бұрын

You should have added ideamaker when comparing speed.

@NearEDGE Жыл бұрын

12:55 I'm not crazy, right? The S3D V5 Benchy definitely has three more warped spots than either the Cura or Prusa Slicer Benchy. It does not look better than either of those.

@MrNickpeck36 Жыл бұрын

Great review as always, very informative. It always pains me to see paid for products missing such simple features that free products have had for such a long time. Not to mention how slow they are at getting anything done, I'll pass on paying for a slicer for now, but at least it's print quality is good which honestly, is the whole point in my book. Having said that, your video put it on my radar which is good, so I'll keep an eye out and hope they make some needed changes soon. I just started using Prusa Slicer for my Ankermake M5, huge print quality difference using it! Hopefully Anker gets their slicer in better shape for it's full release out of beta soon! Happy printing!

@Azurko Жыл бұрын

I just got my Neptune 3 Pro back on the 19th of Dec and I'm seriously considering getting the Plus as well. Just gotta think of how to convince the better half!

@dannybush6131 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for an honest opinion of a piece of software I use almost exclusively. I am an absolute fan for sure, and knowing that you are an avid user I had been waiting on your review. I am still waiting. I am hoping your next review, now that their has been a follow up update; will be better news.

@TaiShu740 Жыл бұрын

I'm very happy to see that you did a brief review on S3Dv5. I started with v4 back then and well, we all know how it went from there. I'm struggling pulling the trigger on the $59 upgrade. The UI still looks outdated (especially without the dark theme), the software is full of bugs, the guys over at S3D seem to provide no response to any of the feedback people provide on KZfaq, etc. The only uglier and less-supported slicer that I've ever seen (and bought (for my Voron)) was the KISSlicer. However: I still consider buying the v5 license because of what you said "The end result just looks better". Do you maybe have a few pictures where we can compare it in a bit more detail? It's the same reason I bought the KISSlicer 2 years ago, where people said, that no slicer available today prints better functional parts then KISSlicer, even though the UI is the worst I've seen in the last 30 years or even longer and support follows the approach "Whenever I feel like coding again but that can also mean I take a few years off because I'm currently sick of coding". Would be interesting how well S3Dv5 would work with the Bambu Lab X1C and if it would be worth going that route at all, as their slicer is just working fantastic out-of-the-box, even with 3rd party filament.

@chrisleggett1303 Жыл бұрын

I paid the 60$ and I agree with everything you said. It’s buggy for sure. I paid the $60 as a hopeful investment that they will continue to develop it because to be honest it has been my favorite slicer. Maybe I’m a sucker. I actually gave up on them earlier in the year and learned Prusa Slicer and haven’t been sorry. Did they have profiles for your Elegoo printers? They had new profiles for my Vyper and my X2 which weren’t there before. They have to earn trust back or go under.

@UncleJessy Жыл бұрын

Totally with you. Also those profiles I don't think are even close to being remotely dialed in. Just sort of a template for you to work with with the build volume.

@williambell4591 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree - PROPS!

@draconiannecros Жыл бұрын

Hey, I am not sure if you missed it on Prusa Slicer, they do have paint on supports. I have been loving using them to get supports exactly where I want.

@fluiditynz Жыл бұрын

I use Cura for my CR 3 pro and Prusaslicer for my CR6-max. Lychee for my resin printer. I find cura a pain for locating settings but it has some nice features like double thickness infill which is great for sealed cubic infil. And Prussaslicer, I love it but I'm constantly tweaking settings, switching between nozzle thicknesses between my two main FDM printers disrupts my settings for the other printer. I suspect it's a lot tidier if you have Prusa printers but for now I put up with it, most of my designs are for me and the stuff I sell is low volume, again my designs but I don't market them.

@Sttreg Жыл бұрын

Quite honestly, Even if they keep updating the slicer, is it even worth spending this much money when there are slicers like cura, prusa slicer and super slicer, that are free, and offers TON of parameters ? I am pretty sure you can get better looking prints with some time spent tuning the profiles on prusa slicer/superslicer. Even if you upgrade, I don't know what justifies 60 bucks over any other free slicers

@shawnrathbone Жыл бұрын

I hadn’t used in years, but I paid for the update and tested it and I’m back to use it, may not for my Prusa, but the others for sure

@user-cs9yj5yd4j 10 ай бұрын

Hey man. Awesome video. Prusa does that visual support painting!

@InTheWrongTimeline Жыл бұрын

Supports is literally the only reason I have not dumped Simplify3D for one of the other slicers yet. The expansion of the supports to allow me to custom add/remove them is great, but I'm not really seeing a reason to upgrade yet. Those bugs that you mentioned (not retaining rotation/scaling numbers, not properly changing between tools, etc...) are pretty big. If they want to do that "One active machine per license" thing, then they really need to start fixing these bugs and add in tree supports. Since slicing is all I've ever heard anyone saying that they use Simplify3d for, it's pretty important that they add in tree supports. I'm definitely interested in the quality things, like the adaptive layer height and such. That looks super nice.

@ham003latechedu 8 ай бұрын

Ive been printing since 2012 with the same solidoodle, ive tried all the free slicers. When i got simplify all the BS stopped. I dont waste filament anymore. Ive tried to go back to open source several times. They all take too much time to get anywhere close to simplify. If you want to print more and waste less time fixing the printer, then go simplify3d. And im open source in most things i do. But dang!!! It just saves time.

@247printing Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video! I loved the speed comparisons for printing and slicing especially. What (still!) bothers me most (sorry to say that): There is STILL NO REALLY GOOD SLICER out there! Each one lacks specific features or has specific downsides. Multi-printer handling isn't really good anywhere... Maybe it's time for a new (paid) contender...?

@HackMonkey Жыл бұрын

You mentioned not being able to visualize supports in PrusaSlicer, do you use paint on supports? I find the paint on supports, and support blocking features really powerful.

@ruftime Жыл бұрын

I’ve been happily using Prusa Slicer for the last 7 years on my fdm/SLA print farm, and recently added 6 Anycubic Kobra Max….. other than the issues of Anycubic’s sloppy build quality and iffy firmware…..PrusaSlicer 2.5 is out and awesome….and will just get bettr, as it regularly gets updated. oh…it’s Open source too❤😎

@3dtechnologies153 Жыл бұрын

How were the simplify3d prints better? Also, did you find a good alternative to Etsy?

@FrugalShave 11 ай бұрын

The draconian licensing killed it for me. We use 4 computers that all need access to S3D so we upgraded to 2 licenses back in the day. No chance that I will spend an extra $540 to get the same functionality.

@hubbahdabut Жыл бұрын

being new to 3d printing on my end - finally got a resin 3d printer - and seeing so many services go to monthly or yearly (looking at you adobe (side gripe) , chitu, lychee) i'd be fine paying up front for perpetual *full feature* product, that allows me to use it on a couple computers (boo chitu!) without going over licensed amount (I roam a little bit) I'm tired of monthly fees when i'm not using it, and when i *don't want* an upgrade to newer features. If i want something fixed ill pay you money but i expect full feature perpetual and not a "rental"

@EJTechandDIY Жыл бұрын

I have Simplfy3d 4.1 but I moved 100% to bambu studio slicer, this took years to be released.

@Mr.Titanium1911 Жыл бұрын

After having used S3D since 2017, I paid the $59 to upgrade just last week. There are MANY bugs, but I will give it a few more days and see if it’s worth keeping. I do enjoy the dark mode… but that’s about all I enjoy for the time being.

@inux3dmanufacturing Жыл бұрын

Great video and opinion! Thanks for saving us the 60$ ;)

@TimS57064 Жыл бұрын

Your review is spot on with S3d v5. I did upgrade to it, and hoping S3D see's this vid, and takes care of the probs, soon. I have tried the other slicers in the recent past and this old brain just said Nope, stick with S3D. LOL

@kwad3d10 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the brutal honest review. You said what needed to be said without being overly critical. I do own V4 for many years and benefit from the support it has offered for years. But I really feel this update is just a cash grab and no bugs will be addressed. Haven't checked recently but the uninstaller for V4 on windows didn't even ever work to my knowledge.

@UncleJessy Жыл бұрын

V5 just recently got an update however it’s still buggy but they did manage to patch a few of the issues like putting supports and it not going all over the place

@kwad3d10 Жыл бұрын

@@UncleJessy Well thats comforting to hear they are still working on it. I decided to not give them any $$ yet. I have herd that although you can only have V5 on one PC you can contact support and be able to still use V4 on another system with no jumping through hoops.

@brettvitaz9101 Жыл бұрын

You mention you’d use PS if it had a similar support feature. PrisaSlicer has a similar paint on support feature and I believe it is superior to S3D’s. PS has brush size controls and fills that make complex models extremely easy to support. It’s been available for at least the past two versions of PS

@WandererTJ Жыл бұрын

Looks like they've updated to 5.0.2 now. The Gizmo vs Supports has been addressed. But I don't think the scaling/translation/rotation reset has according to the release notes. The alternative infill patterns have been far too long overdue. But to finally come out and STILL not have tree supports? Shame. That said, I have always found my printing results with S3D to come out better looking than Cura, like you observed here.

@richhflies Жыл бұрын

I wonder how adding supports would work with a pen and touchscreen device like a Microsoft Surface Pro/Book/Laptop?

@RitesOfTheDead Жыл бұрын

I was planning to update but I will continue to use Simplify3D V4 still.

@bgrant1512 Жыл бұрын

So for 200 I can almost get the features I have in Cura for free 🤣

@KurtisJoseph Жыл бұрын

Gunna hunt down the Deadpool bust video to see the process. To heck with paying $200 for a slicer. I love tree supports at 9% density, especially since the Alpha Christmas update. I DO pay for LuBan, but it is not $200, and it is very unique in its applicable uses. Thank you a BUNCH for the review though.

@ulrichkliegis4138 Жыл бұрын

Considering to upgade despite the lack of too much progress - one question though before that - will the previous version (4.x here) stay intact on the PC? Got my first version (3.x or even earlier? It just had come out) as an add-on to the E3D BigBox printer. Too bad they grounded that project... :( Cura is so agonizingly slow, starting with the installation taking ages to finish, and never ending using it as a productivity tool. So, please, who can confirm that the previous S3D installation will remain intact and usable? Thanks!

@ulrichkliegis4138 Жыл бұрын

Short and simple: It co-exists.

@undoreality8962 Жыл бұрын

cant wait to order a neptune 3 plus

@thungarisnaughty Жыл бұрын

Which slicer had been your go to

@JerseyStyle7 Жыл бұрын

That Amazon link is not working for the plus??????

@ItsAMeAndrew Жыл бұрын

try out idea maker, i have found it to be a very powerful and good underdog, oh and it is free

@wheat70 Жыл бұрын

I upgraded to version 5 the day after it came out. I did not have to pay $60.00 upgrade fee. Is this something they just added?

@MrOsteroiri Жыл бұрын

Related to 3:53sec, you can use Simplify to place anty triangle to bed just by clicking "edit" or ctrl+L.

@rickywong5551 Жыл бұрын

I used to have a rapid fire mouse for the bulk support feature. Lol.

@josch1710 Жыл бұрын

@Uncle Jessy: For the scaling values changing back to 100%. You had uniform scaling on, so I guess, it's consequential, that it changed back.

@DejitaruJin Жыл бұрын

I mentioned on another of your videos recently, but the landscape for FDM slicers is totally different than SLA slicers. That much money - that you'd *assume* would go to development - and they still can't even catch up with us rando's submitting to open source projects. Even outside of the bugs, there's *a lot* of fancy new features in Cura and PrusaSlicer that the S3D team just... doesn't seem to be making an attempt at?

@MathewSchaffer Жыл бұрын

I keep attempting to switch to Prusaslicer and Superslicer every month or so, but I just can’t get my prints to look as good as the profiles I have on Cura. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@Demento1974 Жыл бұрын

@Uncle Jessy I, like you am an avid Simplify3D user (have been since version 3). I "gambled" and paid the $60 for the v5 license. Once I'd imported my profiles and started using the program, I was quickly underwhelmed with the latest offering. I am however a regular poster of bugs in the forum (DrD) and have found some really interesting bugs. The dev team claims that they're working on fixing the NUMEROUS bugs that us users are reporting (I agree with you that they did next to no QA testing prior to release). Otherwise, I do like the lightning-fast slicing time and the quality of the prints that come off of my printers look amazing (when the slicer doesn't crash at random, lol). Given a bit more time, it'll improve... it's just sad that this latest release took so long and generally pissed off the existing user base (myself included).

@logicalfundy Жыл бұрын

Would like to know where to get the dragon model - I've got a gaming machine and I'm curious how well it would perform. That said, most of my needs are simple, I don't really print anything overly complex so Prusa's slicing is basically instant for the types of models I use (mostly gridfinity items).

@st0mper121 Жыл бұрын

Can you still use version 4 on other pc and version 5 on the ONE pc? I was going to do the upgrade for 60$ this could be a deal breaker with me. I also use desktop and a laptop for printer maintenance updates ect..

@MSalmanAlvi Жыл бұрын

How can i learn 3D Printing and Desiging For 3D Printers ? Help

@3DEMS. Жыл бұрын

prusaslicer has the paint supports... dont you like it? and soon organic

@reasonablebeing5392 Жыл бұрын

I upgraded (at the $10 off discount) and agree with your observations (including the klunky Cura interface). S3D manual support placement is a key feature. I have been using v5 and have noticed the print finish especially top layer is much nicer. I've been doing a bunch of uncomplicated practical prints and so far everything I needed v5 to do has worked fine. I'm OG and it's just that I know S3D so well. I can design, slice, and get a print started much faster. After 5+ years of using it I did not mind paying the V5 upgrade fee. Yes it needs a lot of bug fixes and has missing features. I also agree it's not worth a $200 entry fee. For me S3D will continue to be my main slicer with Cura (I need to look at Prusa Slicer) as the go to when S3D is lacking. In my use case (mostly practical prints) S3D is the most efficient slicer path to printing. My main gripe is that I do hope they restore the 2 computer (but only one activated at a time) license feature.

@UncleJessy Жыл бұрын

If they can provide some updates/fixes to these issues I agree with you that the $60 fee ain't bad at all for as easy as it is to use over a lot of the other slicers. I do also like the custom hot key addition in v5 that I just recently found. I would also love to see a FULL list of what all the new improvements are that they added.

@kimmotoivanen Жыл бұрын

IdeaMaker has similar supports. PrusaSlicer paint-on-supports are just easier to use, and with upcoming organic/tree supports it'll be fun.

@batteriesareincludeduasllc1309 Жыл бұрын

Hey @Unclejessy just a heads-up. You for forgot to color grade the footage clip on the 11 min mark. Or the upload to YT kinda went wonky. Keep bringing us great content bud. 👍🏼👍🏼🤘🏼

@D0J0Master Жыл бұрын

I wish you included the bambu studio slicer in the comparisons.

@hypnotico7051 Жыл бұрын

It's a reskin of the prusa slicer.

@GregAtlas Жыл бұрын

That resetting back to 100% is one of the reasons I dislike using Chitubox. Yeah, paying $200 for a buggy beta that still doesn't even have half of the features of other slicers isn't worth it. I wouldn't even pay the $60. I know Cura gets a lot of hate, but the level of customization and capability of different settings is well beyond belief for a free slicer, especially once you get used to it and show the hidden settings that are useful. Most other slicers dumb it down way too much in my opinion. I'm sure it can be a bit daunting for people who just want it to slice, but sometimes you need to fine tune settings to print the file properly. Especially depending on the printer. Prusa Slicer does pretty well and I like it as well. Yeah, it's a benefit that simplify 3D renders and slices quickly, but it still appears to be a slicer way behind in the times just with really good support settings that you can use on any other slicer. Anycubic's Photon Workshop loads, runs, and slices especially fast, but most people don't use it because it lacks quality as well but at least Photon Workshop is free.

@knightsljx Жыл бұрын

I don't know what this video is on about. Cura has a great UI, the settings are simple for beginners, with advance search/display for advance users. It's a great gateway slicer for beginners to work their way towards more advance settings. Prusaslicer has some features better than Cura and functions Cura doesn't have, but Cura is the better general purpose slicer. There's no way anyone is making me pay any amount of money given how good both Cura and Prusaslicer are.

@nAcolz Жыл бұрын

So since this is sponsored by Elegoo... Neptune 3 Pro or Sovol SV06?

@jjfordingpoursoulstudios8581 Жыл бұрын

$200 for a headache? No, thanks. I got divorced to avoid having to pay for a headache generator.

@normanmiller9479 Жыл бұрын

I wanted to make a custom profile for the Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro also. Do you know what other printer had the same bed size so I can use it as a template. If anybody can tell me I would appreciate it. Thank you kindly.

@peterclegg2609 Жыл бұрын

I have version 4 and it's all I use apart from chitubox, it does everything I need at the moment so not upgrading(yet)

@williambell4591 Жыл бұрын

I upgraded immediately cause it was the only slicer I was really used to. I got a taste of Cura when I had to wait for S3D to send me a profile for a new Anycubic Mega X I had bought at the time. But I agree, $200 is too much for most newbies and hobbyists! I can no longer recommend S3D to friends at that price. Lackluster, yes considering how long it took getting to v5, and yes PLEASE stop resetting the transforms after each adjustments!

@KurtisJoseph Жыл бұрын

I want to do 1:1 busts like Uncle Jessy did with Deadpool. I have to hunt down that video again. I have an SV 03 and 2 Kobra Max machines so I can accomplish it. I about mastered finishing helmets with photopolymer resin so I can try to apply that to busts. Man... maybe I should start a channel on printing. The only resin machine I have is the Mono X. I want a Mono Max next.

@foam27 Жыл бұрын

Bambu Lab X1 and included slicer, along with Bambu Handy smartphone app ;)

@Finchyboi14470 Жыл бұрын

I honestly don’t see a reason to pay money for any slicer if the free ones that are out there are almost just as good. I use PrusaSlicer for my FDM printing needs and Chitubox for my resin needs and both have worked fantastically for me, and I haven’t had to pay a cent for either.

@sandsack123 Жыл бұрын

I still use S3Dv4. Mainly because when I tried super slicer and cura the were terrible and slow. Now its because I am too lacy to change. BUT pay again for an upgrade for something that has been promised years ago just does not seem ethical. So: No deal.

@chubi64 Жыл бұрын

i use the old versiond and is so cool

@MrMobius2011 Жыл бұрын

Once burned twice shy with the new simplify 3d. No support for years and existing licence holder have to pay again (granted its perpetual). The free slicers are getting better and better and even the old S3D with older printers works well enough. Simply not interested. Great video and appreciate the energy to really see what positives there are to the software but I think its worth the miss.

@3DMusketeers Жыл бұрын

Seems a bit of the same ole same ole. On v4 I think you can use ctrl+L to land a surface on a plate, but I may be remembering poorly. Glad to see someone doing a review of this, looking at the features they added I decided not to push the cash to do an upgrade, so no vid from me. The painting in Prusa Slicer with snug supports has really spoiled me and up until some of the later versions of PS simplify did have better support algorithms, but that is not the case anymore.

@deze0158 Жыл бұрын

I'll rather get a cheap 3d printer

@jamesbaker1100 Жыл бұрын

You mention @3:50 that there is no "pick face for position" feature but surely this isn't true. I have the old v4 and it can stick a specific model face to the build plate by pressing CMD+L on Mac or presumably CTRL+L on Windows and picking any face on the model. Does V5 really remove this?

@deathinc4u Жыл бұрын

It still works for me on Windows.

@UncleJessy Жыл бұрын

Yeah its there... just tested. Didnt know about that short cut 😂 learning something new today

@TonyMorel Жыл бұрын

Still happy with V4, so for now I'll be staying put. I'm amazed the company is still going tho.

@jclosed2516 Жыл бұрын

I have used S3D to slice some models a while ago (a friend of mine uses the program and was so kind to let me test it out). I can see the appeal with support, but to be honest, I was not overly impressed. Now they ramped up the price with $50 to a whopping $200 (and I don't know if we have to add VAT in Europe, but if so the price is even an insane $242). That makes it even far more unappealing. I mean - I use SuperSlicer, and I got comparable results when I used SuperSlicer and S3D side by side. Yes - Your remark about support is correct, but is that convenience worth that $200 (or $242 I probably have to pay in Europe)? Even if I add the maybe somewhat more comfortable interface it's really not worth the money in my humble opinion. I think the guy's behind S3D made a big mistake with driving up their pricing. If S3D was priced around $20 (max), I think they would sell a LOT of copy's. It would give people some encouragement to give a payed for slicer a chance. But at $200 ($242 Europe) and without even a demo version? I do not think they will attract much new costumers. The price has increased but their seat licensing has gone down. That's also not a plus in my books. On top of that - Their software update record from the past few years is not really what you call stellar (that puts it mildly, because they literally did NOT A SINGLE update in many years). That is very worrying to say the least, an not encouraging for the future. And talking about the future - I think the future of S3D does not look too rosy to be honest.

@phil.tsao. Жыл бұрын

I feel like there's a strange resistance to pay for software in general in this community...everyone drops tons of money on silly unnecessary mods, but aren't willing to pay for someone's hard work to develop software? I think we all take for granted the amount of work some of these things take. Not saying you should go out and buy the slicer, from what I've seen it's far too little too late...but I'd like to see the community value paying for people's work rather than expecting everything to be free or slamming the price of something that they would easily drop bills for on other arguably useless things. Kind of a tangent from your review but thought it was worth bringing up 😅. Great video!

@thesharksurfer Жыл бұрын

There is a “face to bed” option to pic a face you want on the bed. It works great

@JoeyTen Жыл бұрын

I think I know what happened... Some S3D software engineer: "It's not ready yet" Some S3D manager: "It looks ready enough. Let's go ahead and ship this!"

@CappellaTheCat Жыл бұрын

One important thing to note... I have upgraded my license to 5.0 and... they took away the possibility to activate the software on 2 machines! The forums and their facebook are full of angry customers. (However you can still run the activated version 4.1.2 on one machine and the 5.0 on another)

@jyhjhhv Жыл бұрын

Hit ctrl + L on windows and you can choose a plane to lay flat automatically

@mp3llll Жыл бұрын

Yes you have Auto location with ctrl+g

@edrumsense Жыл бұрын

If they add more tools like MatterControl did, which converts matter control into a Tinkercad with more tools, It would definitively worth the 200usd. Also they need to add Adaptive layers and SlimTree support. Otherwise, pay for something that other slicers already do, that makes no sense.

@thatonebelgian Жыл бұрын

Man why do people always forget my bestie ideamaker.

@Lusanagi Жыл бұрын

Cura has a custom supports plugin, but it's not as polished as s3d, which is the only thing going for it; prusa/super slicer has paint on supports but you can't see them until sliced so not as good either, so in a nutshell: 200dls (which is more expensive than before for just one seat instead of 2) is totally not worth it

@jclosed2516 Жыл бұрын

Wait until the Prusa slicer will be able to visualize support like S3D does. I am sure that will be happening some time in the future. The moment that happens S3D is doomed (if it's not already, because there are probably not nearly enough people that are insane enough to fork out $200 for a slicer). I don't want to be negative, but there are only a few things left that S3D does somewhat better. Is that $200 better? Well - We will see if S3D manage to survive or not. Time will tell...

@Lusanagi Жыл бұрын

@@jclosed2516 that and tree supports, I think they are the only things that prusa needs to be the top dog (I've been using super slicer for over a year and not once I've looked back on cura, even when they added arachne with 5.0)