Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer? - PrusaSlicer

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

Walter Layher — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:52:45 +0000

FYI, for good measure I also did a test build with "2.B Run the automatic build script" from the guide and this one just finished successfully as well. My guess why it does not work on your system is either because you did not use the special "Developer command prompt" from Visual Studio for the build or because you have a version mishmash of Visual Studio on your system that causes problems when trying to find the correct version of tools and libraries.

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Walter Layher — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:52:01 +0000

I had MSVC 2026 installed first, then I also installed MSVC 2022 (keeping MSVC 2026 installed) and when I started the build, it found and used some stuff from MSVC 2026 and failed. So I deinstalled both versions of MSVC, rebooted and then only installed MSVC 2022. After that it worked.

Your attachment does not work, maybe you should zip the file first.

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Jára — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:47:51 +0000

Automatic build also fails, see the file attached.

I have installed MSVC 2019, 2013 and 2010. CMAKE 3.18.

84e63a57-build_win.txt

CMD shell from MSVC did not help, it also fails.

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Walter Layher — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:42:46 +0000

That is the same guide that I followed, and specifically the one under "2.A Manual Build Instructions"

What version of Visual Studio do you have installed?

I installed all the apps I mentioned in my post only today. It is a recent install of Windows 11 from November or thereabout with only Office installed and not much else.

Also perhaps important for this: do not use the standard windows cmd shell for the build, but the special command shell that came with Visual Studio. It has some elements in the path that the standard cmd has not.

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

Jára — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:36:46 +0000

Sorry, I am lost.

I have followed this manual: https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/blob/master/doc/How%20to%20build%20-%20Windows.md

Detecting CXX compile features - done CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:5 (find_package): By not providing "FindQhull.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "Qhull", but CMake did not find one. Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qhull" (requested version 7.2) with any of the following names: QhullConfig.cmake qhull-config.cmake Add the installation prefix of "Qhull" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "Qhull_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If "Qhull" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been installed. Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! See also "O:/temp/PRUSA/PrusaSlicer/src/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

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Walter Layher — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:28:04 +0000

Well, the build was successful. I had to install python separately, which is not mentioned in the build instructions on github. When the dep build reached the package dep_z3, it failed and complained about missing python executable. I installed python and the build continued without further problems.

After that I followed the steps in the guide to build via Visual Studio. It took a while, because I had not disabled the debug build, but it was successful and the Printables tab is no longer there.

These are the apps I installed for my build on Windows 11. Please click on the screenshots to see them without cropping.

This is the content of the build folder with the release files.

And this is the system info in the newly built PrusaSlicer.

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

Walter Layher — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:10:13 +0000

I have a build process running, which has not finished yet. But at first glance it seems important which vcrsion of CMake is used. I tried first with cmake-4.2.3 and the build process failed with lots of errors during the dep phase of the build. Then I looked into the github issues and saw somebody mention using an older version of CMake. So I deinstalled my version 4.2.3 and installed version 3.31.11. Then I restarted the build (using Visual Studio Community 17 2022) and it is still running at the moment with no errors so far. I'll report back with the final result later.

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Walter Layher — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:05:27 +0000

I am on Linux and the build tools are practically already a part of the system there and I need and use them to compile other software as well.
You mention VS 2019 so I suppose you are on Windows? Some years ago I managed to compile PrusaSlicer on Windows 10 as well. The build instructions for Windows mention running a script that should perform all the steps once the prerequisite software packages (MSVC, CMake and git) are installed. So far I have not bothered to install them since I switched my Windows (laptop and VM) to 11, so I have not tried this on Windows 11 yet. Perhaps I'll try over the weekend if the instructions from Prusa are still valid for Windows 11.

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

Jára — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:04:43 +0000

Before 2 years I have attempted to compile Průša Slicer and I have failed. There was a problem with boost library, I do not know which version to use.

I have Visual Studio 2019, I do not know whether it is sufficient enough to compile Průša Slicer.

RE: Disable Printables tab in Prusaslicer?

m00dawg — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:50:16 +0000

Posted by: @walter-layher
Or build from source and make the change suggested in post #5 above to make the Printables tab disappear. Double click on the image to see it without cropping.

Can confirm, this method still works. I built from main a few days ago. It takes a while but it does the job. In my case I have to build it either way since Prusa no longer supports AppImage. Both kind of disappointing (and while I'm throwing shade, adding back in things like print completion so I can get mQTT updates from OctoPrint would be nice). Another option is to switch to something like OracSlicer or SuperSlicer.