I am just curious why Snapmaker has created Snapmaker Orca. IMHO is more effective to collaborate with the main project than maintain own fork. For example the comming U1 is already supported in original Orcaslice but there are no U1 profiles in Snapmaker Orca yet, J1 has updated profiles in Snapmaker’s branch only. Additionally, actual Snapmaker branch is more than 1200 commits behind (incl. new materials, translations’ updates, etc.) today.
I am not sure than own slicer is so important if here is open source project with big community. Maybe, to be a contributor (and sponsor?) of main project is more effective way how to spread the good name of Snapmaker brand to potentional customers.
orcaslicer and a few other slicers also have snapmaker printers pre-loaded in. with snapmaker-orca, snapmaker is able to make changes faster than if it was something to be included in the main orcaslicer. ( i think ) if not, then its probably just their own slicer branch to use like how everyone used to re-skin Cura.
anything is better than Luban.
possibly, but with the U1 being shown to work with a Fluidd interface i don’t think it should have anything to do with WIFI connection. having to use a post processing script to enable WIFI printing was a solution to a problem that we shouldn’t have.