I got KISSlicer working last night. I haven’t used it long enough to comment on the quality compared to slic3r but it has achieved two things which have failed so far with slic3r.
Firstly this http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:82533
hinged box when printed with KISslicer works and not with slic3r (the hinges break off). (0.21mm height)
it took a bit of time to parameter it as almost all the “defaults” don’t work on the k8200. I’m still using slic3r mostly (more parameters - more fun), but KISSlic3r seems to be able to do things slic3r can’t.
if there is any interest (and if I can figure out how to dump the parameters), I can post them.
i tryied using your ini setting but when i start my 3d printer it just goes to home location on all axis and dosent even heat up the nozzle its like dead works with the other slicers tho pls help
Good to hear it works for others as well. I’ve been using it for many months now with very good success. I try every so often to go back to slic3r but its all more complicated.
since I did the post I have been improving my settings and system (I have a bulldog extruder now with 0.3mm head and get a resolution of 0.09 with no problems).
@viper76 the relevant bit is probably in the printer.ini as the cryptic g_code_prefix parameter. If you open up the GUI and find that parameter under “Ptr G-Code”->“Prefix” you can read the text.
I don’t have the original prefix code I posted more, but here is the latest one I use:
G28 ; home all axes
G90 ; use absolute coordinates
G21 ; set units to millimeters
G92 E0
M82 ; use absolute distances for extrusion
M302; allow cold extrusions
M190 S ; heat bed and wait
M109 S; heat extruder… because we have to prime…
;G1 E10 F400 ; prime the nozzle
just paste it in and try it out. The last G1 code is commented out because I thought it wasted too much plastic. feel free to turn it out (it depends on you print head).
I’m having some odd results with KISSlicer. It works really well for some things but for others it’s doing strange things with the way it moves.
Creating the individual sections of this: thingiverse.com/thing:9006 with slic3r and it will just go in circles to create them, as you would expect. But with KISSlicer and what seem to be identical settings (copied them from slic3r) it will deposit material in all sorts of weird areas seemingly at random. It won’t just move the bed in a circle.
I’m having problems with it as well meanwhile. It seems to do very badly with “damaged” models.
I tried to print this servo bracket: thingiverse.com/thing:5784
(Servo_BracketInsideShortV1.1)
and it slices it into three separate objects! The two sides are separated from the base! on the first attempt I wondered why they just snapped off… then the GCODE revealed why. To be fair to KISSlicer it does warn you with its strange colouring system (the areas were orange).
Anyhow you can repair the model with netfabb. But it still has problems. It cant seem to accept the fact that it is one object.
For this object I’ve gone back to slic3r, which works super on the “repaired” model.
It seems I have to keep both slicers depending on the model (quality?)