I do a lot of 3d printing that I don't show on the channel just isn't enough
time to film everything but I do have a Prusa MK2S and I do use the
PrusaSlicer I really like it since it came out version 2 now they're up to
version 2.1 and it's got a lot of nice features that i've been using with my
Ender 3 so maybe it's time I introduce you to the PrusaSlicer and also share
my profiles right here on Filament Friday. Filament Friday is brought to you
by these patreon supporters. In a previous video there was a feature in
simplify 3d that I love that was moved in to cura 4.3 I guess I should have
mentioned that it's in a lot of other slicers because I got a bunch of
comments that PrusaSlicer already has it and that they prefer PrusaSlicer
and I should look at PrusaSlicer I guess I should also tell everybody that
I've used PrusaSlicer I just haven't put it on the channel and
there's a reason for that. I used to use simplify3d on my channel because I
really liked its interface but I had a lot of people ask me why dont I use Cura
or show Cura so I did in an informal poll and I found that 66% of my audience uses
cura even though I wasn't showing it. so I decided to focus on showing Cura
Based on those comments I decided to do the poll again and after two thousand
four hundred votes Cura is leading 84 percent over every other slicer. now some
of this is because I put cura on the channel but prusaslicer wasn't around
when I did that first poll it was slic3r prusa Edition so PrusaSlicer
has definitely gained some ground and I have been using it so maybe it's time
that I show some of the features that I like and share my profiles. first off
here's PrusaSlicer version 2.1 installed on my Mac. I use this with my
Ender 3 and I've got profiles very similar to what I have in cura. There's
also a third-party one that I've loaded and I'll talk about that in a minute.
I have filament settings just fulfilmentfor Filament Friday filament and also Ender three
profiles so I mainly use this with Ender 3 right now I haven't used it with other
printers though many of those people who'd said they use the PrusaSlicer
none of them would share their profiles so I decided to share my profiles. I'm
not saying they're the best but this will get you started. So what you do is
you go to File> Import and then import config bundle.
And here's my ini file which is my Prusa slicer settings. I'm put a link to this
in description below you can download them but it's gonna load eight presets
successfully into PrusaSlicer. Once you do this and then you'll see under printer
settings you'll see the three different settings under filament settings you'll
see my filament Friday filament settings and then also under printer settings you
should see in Ender three and right there it is Ender three and that's got
all the hardware settings the bed size and things like that so if I go to
plater here this is where you're gonna work from. this is the build plate so if
you need to load in a file you just file import STL file and now I'm just
gonna bring in my calibration cube and here it is. so now if you want to adjust
different things it's all available to you but I'm just gonna use my 0.28
profile and if I want to change things I click up here at the top and I can
change parameters. I can change infill at 20% here very similar to everything you
would see like in Cura or any slicer and you can adjust different things andt
it's all under print settings. now under filament settings that's where you would
set your temperature so you're beginning temperature first layer or later and
I've got to set the 205 and 50 for my filament cooling is set at the same
point so that's what the filament settings do is kind of set the
temperatures. then there's also the printer settings and this is where,
really your machine profile. you've got your bed shape which I set up already
220 by 220 for the Ender three and then 250 tall your Z offset if you need it is
all in here and then I've got my custom g-code which is the start and end G code so
I go back to the main screen click on slice now all those settings are applied
to my CHEP cube and this preview comes up that I can slide right through all
the different layers similar to Cura or any other slicer. Then I can export the
G code and I can print it on my Ender 3 and here it is printing on the Ender 3.
I'm getting very good results out of these profiles I'm not saying they're the
best but I'm getting very similar results
to what I am in cura. but I decided to look for other profiles.
I did find this one on Thingiverse from user BraunBauer and it looks pretty
good. he's got several different profiles for creality of machines Ender 5, CR10
Ender 3 I tried out the Ender 3 I did the same things before, file
import config bundle and I selected his ini file. the only thing that was strange
to me is it says 0 preset successfully imported I don't know what that meant
because it seemed like it worked seemed like it brought in his presets
and it showed up here in my list. he's now v5 Ender 3 v5 which was his version
5 so it's why I left it there in case he ever updates it. I tested his profiles
with all my basic things like the CHEP cube and the pawn and Benchy and all
that and I found that he's got pretty good profile here. now his defaults do
have supports turned on and brim which you can turn off right here on the main
screen so those are some of the things you can do including infill you can
change infill if you want. I prefer a skirt but I printed his. I've gotten pretty
good results so if you're looking for a profile you don't trust mine you don't
like mine this is definitely one to check out. but here's one of the reasons
I like PrusaSlicer and why I've been playing with it more. if you want to do a
two color print this is how you can do it. here's the the slider but you notice
this plus button on the side. I can go all the way up on my pawn here to 28
millimeters. if I click this plus button it separates it into another color it
automatically separates it which is a lot easier than what Cura offers so
it's showing two colors here starting at 28 millimeters it switches so now I can
slice this export the g-code and let me show you what it does. if I open that
g-code file in a text editor if I do a find and look for M 600 within the file
I'm gonna find an M 600. Now this is the Marlin Gcode for pause for filament
change. you can see right here it's saying z28 so it's pausing right at 28
millimeters. its automatically is putting this M 600 into the G code which is very
very handy so what I can do then is print and it's going to stop and tell me
to change filament what I don't like is it makes this very irritating noise.
You just want to change filament when you hear that. so what I did is I pulled out
the red filament or the candy apple red from atomic and I put in my filament
Friday white. now what I didn't do is push this through to clear out the
nozzle I was in a hurry just to show this feature and so I'm gonna end up
with a little red blob at the end that actually cleaned off with a little
tweezers. Plus I get a little bit of a blend from the red to the white but if
you push the white through so you're getting white out, you'll get a much
cleaner print. but look at this two colors how much easier can it get to do
two colored prints. it's automatically doing it in the g-code. I love this
feature in PrusaSlicer. here's another feature I like in PrusaSlicer.
Now I can do something similar to this in Cura just by sliding the file
down you can probably do that same thing here but there's a cut feature and I can
slide this cut and break a print into two pieces just like that so now I got
both pieces if this. If this is a really big print I could make it fit on the bed but
I also like the fact that I just want to print the top of the CHEP cube
just to see how the surface is going to be and test that. Rather than print the whole
CHEP cube what I can do is just not keep the lower part. so I perform the cut
now I have just the top. so I can do a real quick print real quick test this is
great for a real complicated print and then I can slice it and it'll print just
this guy so I can test how good my overlaps are how good my you know
surrounds are. it's really really handy and here's a print that I did. I have
just the top of it. this literally took minutes to print. and I was able to try
different things with the top. when I compare my results between the PrusaSlicer
and the cura slicer I'm getting very similar results but I'm happy with
both so having two free slicers that work like this is a great option to have. you
don't have to pick just one use whatever slicer you want. so
hopefully that will help you get started with the PrusaSlicer using your Ender 3
it's definitely worth playing with and
see how you like it. maybe you'll like better than Cura
maybe you won't. maybe you'll find some other slicer you like better but
learning different slicers is definitely something that you should do. it's part