# Visualising tool change moves in Orca Slicer

**URL:** <https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/visualising-tool-change-moves-in-orca-slicer/40238>\
**Category:** U1 Toolchanger\
**Created:** [October 31, 2025, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/visualising-tool-change-moves-in-orca-slicer/40238 "2025-10-31T09:42:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dwuk3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@dwuk3d](https://forum.snapmaker.com/u/dwuk3d)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/visualising-tool-change-moves-in-orca-slicer/40238/1 "2025-10-31T09:42:22Z")

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As Orca Slicer doesn’t really know about the position of the tools, when you visualise the moves within Orca slicer, when a tool change happens - Orca shows the print head doing the following:

1. Moving directly to the prime tower - Which is not correct - because surely it moves to the tool drop off / preheat point first
2. Then moving straight from the prime tower back to the print

Example here

 ![Screenshot 2025-10-31 at 09.29.25](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/snapmaker/original/3X/7/f/7f40c1cc11ac443ed555af6b889b5d7e9732ad3b.png)

For prints where the filament numbers exactly match the tool numbers I have made a small change to the Change Filament Gcode - just really for visualisation purposes - and possibly not completely accurate - but I thought it might be of interest.

Suggestion in next two replies to this post - as new users can’t post more than one image.

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**Author:** ![dwuk3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@dwuk3d](https://forum.snapmaker.com/u/dwuk3d)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/visualising-tool-change-moves-in-orca-slicer/40238/2 "2025-10-31T09:42:59Z")

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After the change - the visualisation looks like this

 ![Screenshot 2025-10-31 at 09.54.51](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/snapmaker/original/3X/0/4/0430bca263f4755885b20c57a2ad6ad7894fcc5b.png)

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**Author:** ![dwuk3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@dwuk3d](https://forum.snapmaker.com/u/dwuk3d)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 9:43am UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/visualising-tool-change-moves-in-orca-slicer/40238/3 "2025-10-31T09:43:54Z")

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I made these 3 simple changes to the printer Config Gcode overrides to show this visualisation

 ![Screenshot 2025-10-31 at 09.55.09](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/snapmaker/original/3X/1/0/1076b4886a108758136280e114e126a75d31a153.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![dwuk3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@dwuk3d](https://forum.snapmaker.com/u/dwuk3d)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/visualising-tool-change-moves-in-orca-slicer/40238/4 "2025-10-31T10:02:28Z")

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Short Animation

![U1 move](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/snapmaker/original/3X/c/5/c5eaeafe30cb3113378f9f94c3e7712b9bcd8054.gif)

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**Author:** ![nweolu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.snapmaker.com/nweolu/32/23079_2.png) [@nweolu](https://forum.snapmaker.com/u/nweolu)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/visualising-tool-change-moves-in-orca-slicer/40238/5 "2025-11-01T20:25:17Z")

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Relayed this to devs. Thank you!