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.
I think this should not even be an issue, but I guess when you sell both the printer and the filament, you want to maximize the profits, so you artificially make it hard to import settings from your competitors, well, the smaller ones anyway. Ive actually tried to edit the profiles from regular Orca slicer to include the U1 in the compatible printers section thinking that would help and still no dice so that means there is a block somewhere.
Probably best not to mark solutions. What’s good for one person is not always the answer for another.
I have seen countless topics on car problems which seem to have many solutions.
One person says ‘I did this and it’s ok now’, and another says ‘I unplugged it and reconnected it and the problem’s gone’, another: ‘I stood on one leg, and locked the door with the remote, but held the button for 10 mins, and then climbed in through the tailgate, and started the car without unlocking the doors. And it’s fine now’.
Snorca have all the 3rd party filament profiles and generic profiles that REAL Orca supports(Least it was there till the snorca version 2.1.*), However, the JSON file containing the maps of these profiles get cleaned up at the start of the Snorca. I attempted to add the same JSON file from Orca to Snorca, but it was still cleaned up.
Checked with support on why its cleared, ans I got “Its product decision.“
Problem:
When we create a custom profile in Orca, we essentially inherit the Orca profile we used to create our custom profile.When this file is imported into Snorca, since Snorca doesn’t have the inherited profile, it doesn’t recognize the custom profile.
Solutions:
Don’t use Snorca. Seriously, with custom firmware that allows you to control your printer remotely and modify the extruder count in the printer profile, you get functionality comparable to Snorca, if not better.
If you still want to export your custom filament profiles from Orca to Snorca, here are the steps:
Create new custom filament
Select copy current filament preset, and select the custom filament you are trying to import to snorca
Snorca will be able to import this new filament profile.
Why this works:
On creating custom filament, it brings in the inherited filament properties to custom filament profile, since there is no inherit to some filament profile that snorca do not understand, its able to import it
