It's just come to my attention that OrcaSlicer has broken their multi-material support in a big way. Let me start off by saying that we only officially support PrusaSlicer, and only test on PrusaSlicer. There are other slicers that are forks of PrusaSlicer (like SuperSlicer, BambuStudio, OrcaSlicer and others) that sometimes work and sometimes don't. However, we DO NOT test with them, nor do we intend to. We test 100s of printers a year in their stock configuration. We also DO NOT test variations of those printers, for example, aftermarket hotends or extruders, regard less of how popular they are. The number of variations are too huge to be able to support that. We have a generic set of design requirements and software support to be able to cover any printer out there. Where there is no PrusaSlicer software support for a printer (like a proprietary printer), we will make every attempt to help out, but can't guarantee that it will work. Our stated requirements for "any printer" are that it can use PrusaSlicer's Custom Tool Change GCode and that it uses 1.75mm filament. If those two conditions are met, then it's 99.9+% chance that the 3DChameleon will work for you. Asking that we support others is simply not an option, regardless of how popular a product/slicer is. If that slicer has a technical limitation that prevents it from working, for example, like Cura does, then there is nothing that we are able to do to fix it. This is also true for hardware, for example, we do not support Titan or SeeMeCNC extruders, and recommend you change those to better designs. If a printer supports open source slicers, then there is always a PrusaSlicer solution for it, as it's by far the most open slicer there is, and they're the only ones that are fully committed and continuously advancing our ability to do color printing. I don't know why the forks of PrusaSlicer are changing key features from the base platform, or limiting it for some reason, but if you encounter an issue with one of them, I highly recommend you go to their Github pages and post an issue to help get them to resolve it. Bill
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Thanks for the clarity on this Bill. While it is disappointing that the OrcaSlicer development team has made changes that prevent their slicer from working with multi-material, it it completely understandable that you can't support it or the many other forks that are out there.
Trent