Use Orca Slicers Modifiers To Enhance Your Prints

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6 ай бұрын

This video is sponsored by PCBWay www.pcbway.com/
Today I'm going to show you to demonstrate Orca Slicer's modifiers. Some of these modifiers will allow us to have different settings such as different infills and the number of walls on the same print. I'll also show you how to use modifiers to add or subtract areas on a model.
If you're using Cura as your slicer, I demonstrate this in another video at • Take Control of Your P...

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@haddonist 5 ай бұрын

When modifying an entire part like at 11:20 it's not necessary to add a cube modifier. Just ensure only that part is highlighted in the object menu and adjust the settings as normal.

@CRASHdriven Ай бұрын

Very very interesting and valuable. I'm putting it to immediate use. Thanks!

@pushingplastic7445 Ай бұрын

I hope it helps! Thanks for watching!

@andyb7754 24 күн бұрын

Thank you for the informative video. I've never used Orca Slicer only Cura. I need to learn it because I just got a QIDI Q1 Pro 1 and Orca Slicer is the recommended slicer. Thank you again for the tips.

@pushingplastic7445 22 күн бұрын

It's an awesome slicer with a lot of features packed into it!

@artemgoncharenko646 13 күн бұрын

Greate tips! Thank you. What else except the infill and walls the modifiers can do ?!

@retired_badger Ай бұрын

Thanks for the tips, very useful. Been using Orca Slicer now for a few months and really like it. Don’t yet know how I’d use the tips, but I’m sure they’ll find a place in my 3D printing. Got a new subscriber! ❤

@pushingplastic7445 Ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you for subscribing! I do videos for Cura, Creality Print and Orca Slicers as well other 3D Printing related topics! I hope to hold your interest!

@mauriziomigliorini8145 4 ай бұрын

I've been using Orcaslicer for a short time, I still have a lot to learn, this use of modifiers is awesome! it will be very useful to me!! thank you from Florence Italy 😊🤗

@pushingplastic7445 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad it helped. I need to get back to doing more Orca Slicer videos! Thanks for the kind words and thanks for watching!

@OldManJimmy1 2 ай бұрын

Great way to strengthen parts in select areas without having to use the setting/settings on all of your print or parts.

@pushingplastic7445 2 ай бұрын

It sure does save time and material! Thanks for watching!

@OldManJimmy1 2 ай бұрын

@@pushingplastic7445 My plesure and thanks for posting great content!!!

@Mainuh 4 ай бұрын

Great video! Clear and concise. Nicely done. New to 3D printing and just switching from Creality slicer to Orca. New subscriber too! Thank you!

@pushingplastic7445 4 ай бұрын

Orca is a great slicer, you can do a lot with it! It might be confusing at first, but after a while it becomes second nature! Thanks for the kind words and thanks for watching!

@michaellindborg1510 5 ай бұрын

I had no idea this was possible! Like having TinkerCad right in the slicer. Very helpful.

@GRainwater13 6 ай бұрын

Very helpful information!

@kevingorman6185 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for this tip. It came at the right time. I’m printing some gifts and I needed to remove some of the texts in some areas of the print. It would have been so much more work for me. Thank you.

@pushingplastic7445 6 ай бұрын

I'm glad it helped! Thanks for watching!

@Magin68 6 ай бұрын

I've been using Orca Slicer, though still falling back to Cura since I feel comfortable there. The modifiers you demonstrate here would be quite useful to me. I'm going to experiment with them. Thank you!

@pushingplastic7445 6 ай бұрын

It never hurts to use more than one slicer! I get better results on my K1 Max with Orca. I still use Cura for my other printers, well except for the Bambu.

@gordonrain7152 2 ай бұрын

Very nice video Sir, and one that I learned something from and I'm ALWAYS appreciative of that. I am already applying a couple of your suggestions as I type this on a couple of projects that are humming away...but the seed you have now planted in my brain is; how to apply the specific infill density to specific LAYERS of the overall print. I'll be working on that but if you have a suggestion, I'm all ears.....

@pushingplastic7445 2 ай бұрын

Awesome question! I just tried this with success. I loaded a test part into Orca slicer. A simple cylinder, added a modifier. Adjusted the size of the modifier so that it covered the diameter of the cylinder and was about 25% of the cylinders height. I then moved the modifier up in the Z direction. I set my infill for the print at 15%, went to "Process" and selected Objects. Click the modifier and set the infill density. I set it to 50%. Sliced and viewed and I had 15% infill until it reached the height of the modifier then it switched to 50% infill. When it reached the end of the modifier it went back to 15% infill. Short version, just move the modifier up to the layers you want to modify. I hope this helps! Let me know how it works out! Thanks for watching!

@gordonrain7152 2 ай бұрын

@@pushingplastic7445 Howdy pard', I appreciate that, and most glad it was a question that rated a solution. I'm happy that you found an answer so quickly and obliged for your efforts. What you did was kinda along the lines of what I was thinking, to add some additional strength at pivot/stress points without necessarily having to maintain the high infill % throughout the print. I will be experimenting with this almost immediately for a couple of projects I'm working on of late. Now all I need to do is figure out how to utilize 'Selective Cuts' in Orca like it is used in Bambu Slicer (right click to remove specific selections on the side of the Cut you don't want to be Cut or removed permanently). The right-click option does not work (at least for me) in Orca unfortunately and the use of 'Negative' cuts seems to not allow saving the 'cut' portion...or maybe at my age I'm just missin' the snake bite... ; - )

@pushingplastic7445 2 ай бұрын

@@gordonrain7152 See, you can teach us old dog new tricks! I'll have to do some research on Selective Cuts before answering this one!! Thanks for the kind words!!

@mdykyi 4 ай бұрын

Thank You Bill!

@pushingplastic7445 4 ай бұрын

Thank you and thanks for watching!!

@Bruceanddenise 2 ай бұрын

Good info!

@ForgottenHeathen 3 ай бұрын

Very useful, thanks!

@pushingplastic7445 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@k_DEDb07 15 күн бұрын

appreciate you. thanks

@pushingplastic7445 15 күн бұрын

THanks for that and thanks for watching!

@user-hg8sw2jn6s 4 ай бұрын

Great video! thank you!!

@pushingplastic7445 4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Hope it made life easier!! Thanks for watching, it's very much appreciated!

@rodneysmith1750 5 ай бұрын

Thanks, you just saved my bacon!

@pushingplastic7445 5 ай бұрын

Everything is better with bacon! Thanks for watching!

@lukeszatmary1840 Ай бұрын

Works great

@pushingplastic7445 Ай бұрын

That's what I like to hear! Thanks for watching!

@DrGeta666 3 ай бұрын

that's really cool!

@pushingplastic7445 3 ай бұрын

It is! Thanks for watching!

@DrGeta666 3 ай бұрын

@@pushingplastic7445 thanks for putting it out, I got my first printer last week and if it wasn’t for channels like this that printer would be burning at the bottom of a fire pit hahah

@pushingplastic7445 3 ай бұрын

@@DrGeta666Nice! What printer did you get?

@DrGeta666 3 ай бұрын

@@pushingplastic7445 just an Ender 3v3 KE. Got it 40% off so I thought it was worth taking the leap. I’m over that hump of things not quite working and everything is dialed in and printing fantastic. So now it’s the fun part of making more than just benchys and cubes 😜

@pushingplastic7445 3 ай бұрын

@@DrGeta666 I wish I would've got that printer! And 40% off! Wow, nice deal!!

@AnotherCG 4 ай бұрын

Pushing P...plastic. Nice!

@pushingplastic7445 4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Those kind words are very much appreciated! Thanks for watching!

@HondaWyo Күн бұрын

when i do thew modifyer and add walls and infill it shows on the final layer of the print

@JakeOFreeman 2 ай бұрын

How would you go about adding Fuzzy skin to certain areas of the geometry while leaving other areas alone for mating with other parts? I have tried everything I could think of, but fuzzy skin always gets applied to the surface even after using a modifier or a negative.

@gordonrain7152 2 ай бұрын

"...adding Fuzzy skin to certain areas of the geometry while leaving other areas alone..." SUPERB question pard'! I too would like to figure this out and discover the answer...

@SooperBeez 6 ай бұрын

for your k1max are you exclusively using orca slicer? have you tried comparing a creality print model vs your orca profile?

@pushingplastic7445 6 ай бұрын

Occasionally, for a quick, no frills print, I'll still use Creality Print. But I mostly use Orca Slicer. I can control more aspects of the print with Orca, like variable layer height, the supports and things like that. I hope that answers your question, if not, just reply and I'll try to do my best to answer it. Thanks for watching!

@FlippingTurtles 5 ай бұрын

I've been having the issue where if I'm using a modifier at 11:05 the parts are now separate and causing noticeable lines. Any info on how to avoid that? I've checked on Cura and I don't seem to see the same issue where it causes the object to be separated.

@KToMmi 4 ай бұрын

Same here. Have you found a solution?

@lloydfulcer 2 ай бұрын

I believe it is wall loop mismatch. Under strength, I changed wall loops to the same number (3 in my case) for all objects and also global. It appears when they have a different wall loop count they get treated as a separate object within the part and draw a wall around the modifier.

@KToMmi 2 ай бұрын

@@lloydfulcer what is even the point of a modifier if I can't locally modify the wall loop counts, lol. I understand I can change infill without causing issues but wall count is much more important for strength.

@lloydfulcer 2 ай бұрын

@@KToMmi agreed. I used a modifier to increase infill density for greater strength at a corner. It generated the “box” because I had different wall count. This actually generated a weak point that the part broke at, rather than strengthening it. I know there’s a ton of code in the background to make this work out automagically, so hopefully it’s on somebody’s list for future improvements.