Hello everyone, I’ve been a happy owner of a U1 for 15 days now. It’s a beautiful and excellent machine. Thank you to the entire Snapmaker team for this, and especially for the rapid software and hardware releases for this machine. I just have a question for the Snapmaker community and the Snapmaker staff regarding the ORCA software.
With this machine, I’m wondering which version of Orca to get: the official ORCA version 2.3.1 or the Snapmaker Orca version 2.1.2, which fixes the “.” and “,” issues in the European version.
I don’t see any difference between the two versions. Is the Snapmaker version truly optimized for the U1?
The only difference I’ve found is this:
In the official ORCA version, the U1 uses all the filaments from my J1S, even Breakway, TPU, etc.
However, in Orca Snapmaker, the U1 only uses: Snapmaker PETG HF, Snapmaker PLA Basic, Snapmaker PLA Matte, and Snapmaker SnapSpeed. No TPU or other PETG-type filaments, which is a shame because I’d like to experiment with those.
Could you tell me which version to get and, more importantly, which technical filaments will be compatible with the U1?
Thank you, and have a good day.
Stéphane from France.
Opinions differ. I prefer Snapmaker Orca as it includes all their latest optimizations. And it also has some very (I think) nice additional device integration for sending prints, checking and assigning filament at print time, and control of the printer from the Device tab.
Does anyone know how to setup a custom filament in Snapmaker Orca for anything other than the U1? When I try to add a Custom Filament - Import settings from (3d-Fuel) and try to assign it to a printer only the U1 is available. Try to add a preset for another printer and the list only includes the U1. See screen shot. How do we add a custom to the list?
I can do this in native Orca just not in Snapmaker Orca. What am I missing?
I have 4 printer, all different companies. I started with “official Orca” to print on all of them. I switch to use the proprietary version now for each printer as it gave me less trouble and better experience. It is annoying as hell to setup filament for each and everyone - i would love to find a way to import / export or share the profiles between.
Thank you, Simon_Zhi, for your response and for keeping us updated on the progress of the filaments in Snapmaker Orca. If you need beta testers for these filaments, I’m available. Thank you.
