Snapmaker Orca Slicer: How to configure printing to start from a specific layer, and provide detailed print parameter settings?
During the print, one of the prints failed to adhere properly and toppled over, causing a tangle of filament (spaghetti), which then terminated the print.
For example, if the slicer generates a total of 730 layers and the print stops at layer 530, how can I configure it to resume printing from layer 531?
I searched online for various methods, but none of them worked. The solution summarized on Deepseek suggested modifying the G-code to start printing from a specific layer, but it seems this approach is not very practical.
Could everyone please help me solve this problem? Thank you so much!!!
What exactly are you trying to do: resume the existing print, or print the unprinted section separately to glue onto the existing print afterwards?
If the former, the reason this hasn’t been made easy to do is because it’s not very useful. Staring a print requires access to the print bed for priming the nozzle, and if there is something occupying the print bed the nozzle travel is blocked. Even if that were overcome, registration might be a problem (if the bed plate has moved even slightly, some of the new print will be into thin air).
If the latter, that’s sort-of easy. You need to move the Z of model in the slicer so the section you don’t want to print is below the plate. That’s simple in Cura, but in Orca there is no way to turn off automatic Z drop. What you have to do is trick it by adding another model to the plate as an assembly (a 1mm cube will do), and then you can set the Z of both models as you like.
I’ve found the solution. There’s a clip function in the software that can do it.
That’s useful to know. I have only wanted to raise the model off the bed, so clip would not have worked for that and I found the assembly trick to do it.
