Directly? Indirectly? How, if at all?
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They have to update it first, but if they do it should work with printer in developer mode or by sending the g-code though Bambu Connect app.
People are calling for H2D support in Orca: Add slicing support for Bambu Lab H2D Ā· Issue #9254 Ā· SoftFever/OrcaSlicer Ā· GitHub
Several companies contributed profiles to orca, would Bambu do the same, or would people have volunteer and contribute their own time to do the profiles?
Based on text on official website
It should be possible to directly communicate with h2d from orca in developer modeā¦
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If Bambu canāt get Orca to support H2D, for whatever reason, then itās incumbent on Bambu to improve its slicer to be just as good. Or at minimum at least as good as Orca was before the rift happened. Right now, especially with respect to H2D calibration, Bambu slicer is just nowhere as complete as Orca slicer. Donāt agree? Please prove me wrong. I would be very happy if you did.
So why am I wasting my breath with this post? Honestly, I donāt know. Maybe Iāve overlooked something, and hopefully somebody has suggestions? I thought I could maybe get what I needed a la cart from makerworld, but some of those models rely on orca slicer and arenāt supported by bambu slicer. For instance:
explicitly calls for using orca slicer. As a check on that, I tried printing it using Bambu slicer instead, and it totally does not work if sliced in Bambu slicer: each of the test coupons prints identically. Useless.
Regardless, weāre all in the same boat. I guess you either get your work done using just the default print profiles, orā¦ what, exactly? Just what exactly is it that people are doing, in detail, to manage their way through the hole left by orca slicer? Especially the calibrations. Letās not all re-invent the wheel separately if some smart person has already blazed a trail by finding all the best-in-class substitutes. What are they? For example, Iām truly looking forward to using the vision calibration sheet to increase accuracy, but itās counterproductive if the print profiles arenāt sufficiently well dialed in so that the added accuracy can make a difference. Right? Anyone disagree?
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
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The requirement is only for the per-object settings. You can export to stl and drop it into BambuConnect, no? An extra manual step for sure, but I donāt think SoftFever is going to budge on the vendetta, and integrate the PR to open the BC url with the file.
Sorry, but I donāt understand what you mean. Would you please elucidate?
No it doesnāt work this way. Only orca has per-object flow settings. There are further problems: thereās no H2D profile in orca so itās currently not possible to just slice the thing in orca and send it via Useless Piece of Friction that some marketing āgeniusā called āBambu Connectā.
So you cannot slice the calibration in orca and send it through connect, exporting stl from 3m file wonāt do anything.
Thatās not a vendetta. The PR to āintegrateā connect was correctly deemed useless from multiple standpoints - it brings no value to the user, brings no value to orca, gives no real security, removes features people useā¦ Integrating that is counter-productive as long as ādeveloper modeā will allow normal connection and full functionality without a need for āthe cloudā.
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Itās in ref to @NeverDie 's example of custom calibration models. I went on a lark and assumed one who uses Orca can understand how to create an interm H2D profile by copying settings from BambuSlicer, it will still work as itās a single filament project. Multiple nozzles may still be an issue, but thatāll be up to the next pull. Weāll have to wait and see on that.
Drag-drop the exported file onto BambuConnect
Either itās lack of sleep or my skull is unusually thick, but I still donāt get it. Help me find the disconnect. I am running Orca 2.3.0, which is the current stable release:
There is no H2D printer shown in the list of supported printers in Orca 2.3.0:
Right? Ergo, if youāre exporting a G-code file, which printer are you using as the basis for generating that g-code?
Are you saying to somehow copy the guts of Bambuās latest slicer, or a subset thereof, and somehow massage that into a sythetic H2D printer in Orca slicer? i.e. what youāre calling an āinterm H2D profileā? I suppose that would be interesting, but Iāve never read anywhere about anyone doing that before. But if itās so easy to do, why isnāt it already a part of the 2.3.0 build? At least to me, it sounds sketchy on its face. From my perspective, this has ārabbit holeā written all over it. But what do I know? Evidently not enough, or I wouldnāt be posting here and waiting on the kindness of strangers for a non-BS answer.
Is anyone else here doing this? Am I the only one who has never heard of this before?
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I used to do it in the old Ender 3 days. Youād probably want to pick the X1C as a starting point and go from there copying over sizes, gcode start/end and speeds/acceleration. It can be a rabbit hole alright 
Iām not entirely sure the work is worth the effort since itās very likely itāll appear in a month or two after general availability. But if you really need it now, you can at least copy the 0.4 Standard profile and get running.
I bought this printer precisely so I wouldnāt have to do that kind of stuff. Seriously. For a printer that costs more than $2k? That kind of work is Bambooās job, not mine. If Iām doing it instead, I have to ask myself WTF I bought it for. Iām not going to become an unpaid employee of a black box.
This is exactly what I donāt want to be doing.
Sorry for the rant. If you have the time, skills, and motivation to do it, more power to you. The ROI just isnāt there for me.
They did the workā¦ itās in BambuStudio. Orcaslicer is definitely not under their control. For that, youād have to be patient for another user to go through the trouble of making those profiles, either officially or unofficially - or do it yourself (which youāre not precluded from doing).
Reminder, youāre the one who asked:
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