ICRS Slicer is an open source slicer for FDM printers, forked from Orca Slicer. made for the Imperial College Robotics Society Lab.
Stay connected with us: Imperial College Robotics
- Auto-calibration for all printers
- Sandwich (inner-outer-inner) mode - An improved version of the
External Perimeters Firstmode - Precise wall
- Polyholes conversion support: SuperSlicer Wiki: Polyholes
- Klipper support
- More granular controls
- Additional features can be found in the change notes
The wiki below aims to provide a detailed explanation of the slicer settings, including how to maximize their use and how to calibrate and set up your printer.
Please note that the wiki is a work in progress. We appreciate your patience as we continue to develop and improve it!
- Tools needed: Visual Studio 2019, Cmake, git, git-lfs, Strawberry Perl.
- You will require cmake version 3.14 or later, which is available on their website.
- Strawberry Perl is available on their GitHub repository.
- Run
build_release.batinx64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019 - Note: Don't forget to run
git lfs pullafter cloning the repository to download tools on Windows
- Tools needed: Xcode, Cmake, git, gettext, libtool, automake, autoconf, texinfo
- You can install most of them by running
brew install cmake gettext libtool automake autoconf texinfo - If you haven't since upgrading Xcode, start Xcode and install macOS build support.
- You can install most of them by running
- run
build_release_macos.sh - open
build_arm64/OrcaSlicer/OrcaSlicer.app - To build and debug in Xcode:
- run
Xcode.app - open
build_`arch`/OrcaSlicer.Xcodeproj - menu bar: Product => Scheme => OrcaSlicer
- menu bar: Product => Scheme => Edit Scheme...
- Run => Info tab => Build Configuration:
RelWithDebInfo - Run => Options tab => Document Versions: uncheck
Allow debugging when browsing versions
- Run => Info tab => Build Configuration:
- menu bar: Product => Run
- run
- Docker
- Dependencies: Docker Installation Instructions, git
- clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer - run
cd OrcaSlicer - run
./DockerBuild.sh - To run OrcaSlicer:
- run
./DockerRun.sh- For most common errors, open
DockerRun.shand read the comments.
- For most common errors, open
- run
- Ubuntu
- Dependencies Will be auto installed with the shell script:
libmspack-dev libgstreamerd-3-dev libsecret-1-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libosmesa6-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev eglexternalplatform-dev libudev-dev libdbus-1-dev extra-cmake-modules libgtk2.0-dev libglew-dev libudev-dev libdbus-1-dev cmake git texinfo - run 'sudo ./BuildLinux.sh -u'
- run './BuildLinux.sh -dsi'
- Dependencies Will be auto installed with the shell script:
It is preferred to build on docker, then export the appImage to be run on the local Lab machine.
Once you have run ./DockerBuild.sh. run ./DockerRun.sh to start the docker container.
then find the container ID eg b3db45eb4197
then to export the appImage run docker cp <container ID>:OrcaSlicer/build/ ~/Downloads/orca this will create a folder called orca in your downloads folder where which you will find the appImage.
This appImage will be named like OrcaSlicer_Linux_V2.3.1-dev.AppImage and can be run on any Linux machine.
Use a USB to transfer the appImage to the lab machine. and place it in ~/.local/OrcaSlicer_ubu64.AppImage this will then be linked to the .Application file and will appear in the applications menu asn taskbar icon.
Orca Slicer is an open-source project and I'm deeply grateful to all my sponsors and backers. Their generous support enables me to purchase filaments and other essential 3D printing materials for the project. Thank you! :)
OrcaSlicer was originally forked from Bambu Studio, it was previously known as BambuStudio-SoftFever.
Bambu Studio is forked from PrusaSlicer by Prusa Research, which is from Slic3r by Alessandro Ranellucci and the RepRap community. Orca Slicer incorporates a lot of features from SuperSlicer by @supermerill Orca Slicer's logo is designed by community member Justin Levine(@freejstnalxndr)
ICRS Slicer is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. ICRS Slicer is based on Orca Studio by SoftFever.
Orca Slicer is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. Orca Slicer is based on Bambu Studio by BambuLab.
Bambu Studio is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. Bambu Studio is based on PrusaSlicer by PrusaResearch.
PrusaSlicer is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. PrusaSlicer is owned by Prusa Research. PrusaSlicer is originally based on Slic3r by Alessandro Ranellucci.
Slic3r is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. Slic3r was created by Alessandro Ranellucci with the help of many other contributors.
The GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 ensures that if you use any part of this software in any way (even behind a web server), your software must be released under the same license.
Orca Slicer includes a pressure advance calibration pattern test adapted from Andrew Ellis' generator, which is licensed under GNU General Public License, version 3. Ellis' generator is itself adapted from a generator developed by Sineos for Marlin, which is licensed under GNU General Public License, version 3.
The Bambu networking plugin is based on non-free libraries from BambuLab. It is optional to the Orca Slicer and provides extended functionalities for Bambulab printer users.