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Short overview of how good the nesting capabilities of various 3D slicer are.

The task is simple: placing as many of these shapes on a 200x300mm printed as possible. Manual (quick and dirty for reference): 6 pcs.

Ranking:

  1. Ultimaker Cura: 7 pcs.
  2. human (me): 6 pcs.
  3. Orca slicer: 5 pcs.
  4. PrusaSlicer & BCN3D stratos: 4 pcs. By switching (for this particular part) from the worst (Prusa) to the best (Cura) slicer the nesting performance improved by a whopping 75%!

Ultimaker Cura:

Prusa:

BCN3D Stratos (forked from an old version of Cura):

OrcaSlicer:

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[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Right click on the auto- arrange icon. I think the checkbox is in there.

Yeah, it's still not great.

[–] EmilieEvans@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Thanks. See the other comment for details how now performs.