I have never had a problem with Bambu Studio not working properly. Does OrcaSlicer bring you coffee in the morning?
I think what he’s saying is that it is reliable. I’m not sure any slicer can bring you coffee…. YET.
I’ve tried orca and keep coming back. It’s a Swiss army knife, with the blades being other printers.
A lot of features I think harken back to olden days when the slicer could save a bad design, or make a mediocre one much less. I guess it’s a little useful when you do get a bad design and really want to print it.
I come from the camp that doesn’t want or feel all the tweaking is for a noticeable gain with BL printers. I don’t get a merit badge for taking a few seconds off the print or a medal for .003. In anytthing.
Studio does what it should. It’s given me issues but few and far between. Usually I’ll revert back if too many rear their heads and wait for the next one.
Honestly I think much of the love for Orca is that it isn’t Studio, or anything Bambu.
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Is the title of this thread not self explanatory. The OP is upset that the world isn’t bending over backwards to satisfy his silliness. Every time I see these type of threads it is always the same thing, this whole superior than thou attitude, such as
It is always, “we are the leading edge, we’re doing things no one else is doing. If you don’t agree with us it is because you’re not as good as us. blah, blah, blah….” It is rather annoying.
By the way, a general rule of thumb when designing for 3D printing is to design things in such a way that they can be printed with minimal support material. It is kind of similar to designing for wood, you want to take advantage of the directions that maximize strength.
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Don’t mind me jumping in, but this is a topic I’ve thought about a lot.
Almost anything can be 3d printable, but there’s also designing with 3d printing in mind. You’re printing from the bed up, and you have to consider things like strength, and how part orientation and layer lines affect that.
There’s also the question of how easy it is to print! How easy it is to assemble.
Here’s a model I’m working on, along with a shot of the plates as they’re shaping up.I work to avoid using supports at all, as I want as much as I can to print from the bed up, having a solid foundation. I try and avoid steep overhangs that’d require supports.
There’s a number of things, like on the counter weight. I broke it up in a way that I could get clean looking surfaces, especially on the chamfered top edges. I wanted to assemble it in a way that it could be filled with ballast, but also be strong, but also be easy to print, but also be easy to assemble. It’s all of those things.
This is one of the hoist drums. I’ve actually seen people 3d print objects like this as a whole, and ugh. Why?! I broke it up into 4 piece.
the other area I wanted to mention on is with the main frame of the body. I broke it into 3 pieces, with these two outer plates being laid flat. I did this because it’s a crane, and we’re going to be attaching a heavy boom onto this thing. Having that flat orientation for the side walls, it gives me the strength I need. The main frame prints from the bottom up and works and looks great this way. If I tried to turn the whole thing on it’s side, that’d be a mess to try and print. If I kept it as a whole printed straight up, then the force of the boom would be pulling against the layer lines
Hopefully this all makes sense. 
Pardon my ramblings here everyone, I just. I think about this stuff a lot, haha.
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As silly as it sounds, there is a positive side to this. Imagine if companies developed their real own slicers and we ended up with a mishmash of different ones. Even worse, it would be a closed system. Although Bambu is a closed system by definition, it is still very open in some respects because it is based on Slic3r.
And with all due respect to Orca slicer, the basis for the Bambu Studio is still: Slic3r. Or to put it more precisely: Bambu Studio is based on PrusaSlicer by Prusa Research, which is from Slic3r by Alessandro Ranellucci and the RepRap community.
And to be even more precise: OrcaSlicer was originally forked from Bambu Studio, it was previously known as BambuStudio-SoftFever.
I don’t see any war, just forks - in the sense of GitHub.
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In the darkness of night as I rummage through the kitchen drawers. What is it I’m even looking for.
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This is correct. When I’m designing specifically for 3D printing, I do that. When I’m designing for anything else, I do that, but know that with the right orientation and slicer settings, I can print any shape that I can design.
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So, it’s your stance that my knowledge superior to yours is wholly reasonable grounds to do anything that makes me happy, if you contract with me?
Guess I’ve been relying on an erroneous business model. One in which people reaching out to me, then contracting with me, all based on how I hold myself out (i.e., advertising) depend on me to lead them down the best, and relative, path, because they don’t even know what they are getting in to.
If only Bambu would invest in making their slicer compatible with the iPad then they would make many creators very happy.
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First, you knew beforehand that it was locked down. If you didn’t then you’re either living under a rock or just threw money at whatever. Not the companies fault. To add, what was changed was telegraphed in advance. Nothing was a surprise. Many didn’t like it, but I will not go into that now. There’s plenty to find on this forum if you search. It was a fun time.
My comments are based on what appears is you stomping your foot and saying “gimmie filament, me mad”. If that’s not the case than I apologize.
Oh, and you can use Orca now for the H series.
My stance is, if i were to contract with you, I would do my due diligence on what your abilities are and can they fit my needs before I give you one cent. I do the same for nearly all my purchases. In this case though, that’s an apples to oranges comparison.
Again, if someone were to enter into a contract with no knowledge of what they are getting into, then who’s really at fault?
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As much as I love orcaslicer proper, I have come to appreciate how all the non-bambu mfrs have been using it: Ship the printer with an own-brand fork of orca, and roll it into mainline after all the kinks get worked out. It would be preferable to be native from the start, but that would require a staffed software department, and it looks like thats not on the menu lol, so this is fine
God yes yes yes yes this!
Try to print with TPU for AMS. You will be surprised how steady these models are.
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You may be young and yet have much to learn about reality. However, it remains fact people cannot know everything there is to know about a given subject, and that is why we have mechanics, doctors, lawyers, roofers and so on.
When I was contracting, I recognized my customers, or clients, could not hope to gain the level of knowledge I gained over decades, or by way of hiring engineers and such, in mere weeks, or even months.
I could put you in my shop and even if you spent a month viewing YouTube videos and other information sources, it’s likely we’d be taking you to emergency within days, as you were expected to run over-arm pin routers, various saws, working with plating chemicals and so on. That after you did your best to do “due diligence.”
Just for reference, on that latter, in law, due diligence is not a thing cut in stone. Rather, it changes with circumstance. Here, as in most situations, people just starting out in carpentry, metal work, law, medicine and so on don’t know enough to be able to ask all the critical questions.
In the end, the artificial person known as Bambu Labs can, ALWAYS, do better. Obviously, its engineers and management know this, or it wouldn’t have accomplished what it has.
You are defending your position as if this as if the company is already perfect in its performance, even as you, likely, know no person or corporation is perfect.
Nice try. I like how you’re talking down to me, it’s cute. I’m not young, but that isn’t relevant to this discussion. Period.
Keep it up with this apples to oranges comparison. While you seem to enjoy tooting your own horn, you clearly are failing to understand you are responsible for understanding what you purchase. Stop trying to deflect.
Again, a comparison that is apples to oranges. You have no idea who I am or what I’ve done yet again you try to deflect the fact that you didn’t understand the ecosystem you bought into. If you are this unsufferable in reality I’d probably send myself to the ER to avoid anymore contact with you.
Can you tell me what this is about? How is this relevant to your decision to purchase a printer without understanding it was a walled garden? Has no bearing on this conversation. Deflecting again. I bet you love to hear yourself talk. Life of the party.
No, I haven’t taken that position at all. I took the position that you are stomping your foot complaining about something like it’s been done to you. Not to mention what you’re complaining about is moot because you can use Orca with the H series. Albeit recently.
Nice try though. Well, not really.
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If every accusation is a confession, I dont wanna know how much blood is on your shop’s poor training regimen’s hands lol
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Since you are new to the forum, I would just like to give you a piece of advice:
You can view other people’s profiles, both in the forum and in MakerWorld, to get a rough idea of how long someone has been active and how much they contribute to the community. It’s just a tiny point of reference, something you should do before you start throwing around phrases like that. 
As an example, just to show you, anyone can see your profile, which is empty:
Of course, whether a profile is full or empty does not make an opinion more or less valid, but you can see how long someone has been active and contributing to the community. Just to give you something to think about.
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Point of information: Bambu Studio is not a reskin of Orca. Orca Slicer is a downstream fork of Bambu Studio (see footnote below).
Often features are back-ported to Bambu Studio by the Bambu developers. This is common practice in projects that have such inheritance; the Linux distribution world has been doing this for decades.
Orca and Bambu definitely have different objectives. Bambu is supporting a just-make-it-work hardware platform that they expect to make money from. Orca works on features that are often more experimental or niche. Because Orca’s development is more aggressively driven by passionate volunteers, it’s generally ahead in features compared to Bambu Studio and its more conservative approach.
We are (in my sort-of-humble opinion) better off in the world having both projects exist and interacting with each other.
Footnote:
Summary
(If you go to Orca’s very first release, it literally is called Bambu Studio. I think that release was just to make sure it compiled on SoftFever’s system; the second release is when the changes began, and was simply referred to as “a modified version of Bambu Studio” and later “BambuStudio-SoftFever”.)
edited: Changed inline footnote to actual footnote using spoiler block, so that it would preserve links.
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I didn’t read the comment you quoted as pertaining to Bambu. My understanding of it was that it was point at other manufacturers that reskin Orca. Snapmaker and Flashforge come to mind.
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