Creality Cura vs Prusaslicer
I bought a prusa last year and learned my printing with that for 6 months and it was great. The quality prints and speed of prints was great, then eveyhthing went downhill. I bought 2 creality printers from microcenter ender 3 pro for 100 dollars..I figured I can put 200.00 upgrade in them ans make them like a prusa...boy was I mistaken. 250.00 later for each ome and im still having issues. I have 8 months experience with ender 3 pro and I have a few extra grey hairs this year. Anyway my last attempt with these before I sell them is I am puttingva e3d v6 hotend on my e3p as a test and had no idea its similar to the prusa hotend..do my question is with Prusaslicer( I now have 2 prusas) my prints ts are flawless. With cura the same item is horrendous. I want to switch from cura to prusaslicer..I ran my first test and got a clog on an all metal hotend clone. So i.researched and bought paste for heatbreak and a few drips of mineral oil in heat break before I put in PFTE tube went in and was amazed that my non working ender is now cranking out like a pro except, I mostly print PLA and I print articulated toys. The prusa with prusaslicer makes it perfect everylink movi s and is clean. Cura with e3pro fuses links together and is stringy..What settings can i use for my e3pro that has bltouch btt motherboard, dual z, metal bed springs, and all metal hotend bowden style setup?? Also my settings for cura right now is 2mm for retraction at 45mm/S travel,55 mm speed, .2mm z for detail and 30 percent infill
Break or cut one of the failures and study the failed articulation. There may be clues there about which aspects are failing.
Otherwise try increasing tolerances.
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RE: Creality Cura vs Prusaslicer
When I got the Prusa, I tried using the Cura that I got at the local makerspace and works/ed just fine on the Taz 5 and the Ultimaker.
It had a Prusa profile for the MK3S built in and I tried it, and the results were nasty!
Mostly the speeds were much too fast, both travel and printing.
I went line by line and adjusted the Cura to mimic the PrusaSlicer parameters quite closely. The result is that for most prints, I get comparable results with both Cura and PS. About the only thing that I left as is are the PLA default temperatures, which don't seem to make that much difference.
If you are seeing any significant difference in the prints between PS and Cura, I suggest you go line by line (read between them if you need to) and adjust Cura to closely mirror those in PS.
There were also differences in the start-up gcode, but those did not seem to be significant.
RE: Creality Cura vs Prusaslicer
It sounds like you want me to do the reverse...i want to only use prusaslicer as my farm will grow with only prusa products ..I tried to closely to mimic cura settings to prusa settings and it was disastrous with under extrusion and a nozzle clog. As I am growing in this 3d printing thing it's hard to manage and try to analyze every line between the 2 slicers. I recently rebuilt 3 hotends on my 3 e3pros and miraculously I got cura to work with 2mm and 45mm/s but the end result vs prusa quality was not close. Prusa is just plug and play and a workhorse, creality e3pros barely works out the box and needs TLC. I just need a basic start with settings so I can use prusaslicer with my e3pros with e3d v6 nozzles.
RE: Creality Cura vs Prusaslicer
Its definitely under extrusion.i need to know what is the flow rate...the retraction settings..travel settings..speed..etc...etc
RE: Creality Cura vs Prusaslicer
PrusaSlicer has a lot of options and parameters for controlling whatever printer you have. Quite often, the baseline profile can work fine, but if it doesn't then you will need to look at the pop-up help box for each parameter and make individual tweaks to address each issue. You should be able to find the comparable parameters in Cura and transfer them to the appropriate place in PrusaSlicer. I would also get a small "torture test" model from Printables or even thingiverse so you can test settings without going through a lot of filament and time.
RE: Creality Cura vs Prusaslicer
Thanks but I a pretty sure I will use alot of filament and time with printing torture tests..I was hoping for some basic parameters that someone else had gone through with their experience
What settings can i use for my e3pro that has bltouch btt motherboard, dual z, metal bed springs, and all metal hotend bowden style setup?
Prusa provide stock Ender settings but if you start making changes to the hardware then you are on your own; unless it is a *very* common upgrade combination you are quite likely to have a rare, possibly unique machine.
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