Short overview of how good the nesting capabilities of various 3D slicer are.

The task is simple: placing as many of these shapes on a 200x300mm printed as possible. Manual (quick and dirty for reference): 6 pcs.

Ranking:

  1. Ultimaker Cura: 7 pcs.
  2. human (me): 6 pcs.
  3. Orca slicer: 5 pcs.
  4. PrusaSlicer & BCN3D stratos: 4 pcs. By switching (for this particular part) from the worst (Prusa) to the best (Cura) slicer the nesting performance improved by a whopping 75%!

Ultimaker Cura:

Prusa:

BCN3D Stratos (forked from an old version of Cura):

OrcaSlicer:

  • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Did you turn on Automatic Rotations in Prusaslicer? By default it’s left off and just tiles your part when you duplicate it.

    • EmilieEvans@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Default settings. Where is the option to rotate it?

      Providing it manually with 90° rotated and using the auto arrange instead of fill bed: 5 pcs. Still not a great result.