Add Direct U1 Printing & Toolhead/Filament Mapping to Vanilla OrcaSlicer

U1 Toolchanger
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Hi Snapmaker Dev Team,

I’d like to request support for using the Snapmaker U1 with the official (vanilla) OrcaSlicer, with the same functionality currently available in Snapmaker Orca.

Current situation

  • In Snapmaker Orca, after slicing you can click Print, the correct toolhead is selected automatically, and the print starts directly from the slicer. Filament/material profiles are correctly mapped to the appropriate toolhead.

  • In the official OrcaSlicer, I can connect to the U1 via Fluidd and upload files, but I can’t start prints directly, can’t select toolheads, and there’s no mapping between filament/material profiles and toolheads.

What we need:

  • The ability to start prints directly from the official OrcaSlicer

  • Correct toolhead selection

  • Correct filament/material → toolhead mapping

  • Full U1 compatibility similar to what exists in Snapmaker Orca

This would allow those of us who prefer the official OrcaSlicer to keep the full functionality of our U1 without having to switch slicers.

Thanks for considering this request!

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Please leave a ticket for this - https://support.snapmaker.com/hc/en-us

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Ticket do not let community chime in how much they want this feature. :slight_smile:

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Its actually the opposite, we’ve been through this with all the previous products. Tickets are a hard and registered statistics. Forum threads can be lost to oblivion.
So - Many tickets > Many posts.

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Will do ticket too, post is to get some traction and community interest.

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This would be indeed lovely.

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Got a reply back: Not Happening.

I don’t get it, why can’t they provide network plugin like Bambu has for orca.

Looks like we will have to build this on our own

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What I understand from past conservations is this is not about what Snapmaker is offering to provide, but about what is accepted for pull into the OrcaSlicer repository. It’s what they seem to be indicating here as well.

This is the apparent answer (as I understand it) for why some features in their current Snapmaker Orca do not and will not appear in OrcaSlicer. They are currently written as part of the slicer.

It may not have been clearly communicated, or not understood, that your suggestion is to make it a separate plug in that can be installed on top of OrcaSlicer, rather than a part of Orca itself.

I do not know if that’s feasible, or something the OrcaSlicer team is willing to support. They may have already discussed this as well and could be why it is as it is currently.

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Another option is to start communication with Orca devs, and see what they think. It can be done either in issues or discussions.
I suggest a discussion OrcaSlicer/OrcaSlicer · Discussions · GitHub. Seems more appropriate to discuss potential issues of merging.
You can share link to this topic anywhere else, to invite users and promote discussion here…

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