HOW TO USE SIMPLIFY 3D SOFTWARE
The vast majority of my failed prints that were due to the software (as in, not clogging the extruder) are due to poor bed adhesion and supports messing up my prints. I will go into this in significant detail shortly, I did need to mention it early on though. In my experiences, this comes down to the raft and support features of S3D. At $149 USD, how will S3D help you avoid this in areas where other slicers wont? I had my fair share of failed prints using Makerware and Slic3r, but how they compare to S3D is important. Wasted money on failed prints can be a big deal to people who value their filament cost more than their time, especially people who are 3D printing on a budget. Maybe you do 3D printing as a hobby on the side and you dont care if it takes a long time because its not a priority, but do you value prints that work often and save you filament cost? The second aspect of justifying the price to me, is the amount of money lost on failed prints. To the S3D team, I would suggest looking into this, it always happens. It consistently gets worse on larger prints. I have had print previews tell me a part will take 12 hours when it ends up taking 14. Once you get up to prints over 10 hours, suddenly it underestimates by a lot. For anything below about 2 hours it is exact to the minute. One thing I will point out here though is the build time preview loses accuracy the longer a print takes. Therefore to those who can appreciate how long slicing takes or maybe you print very complex models, the price is somewhat justified for the sheer speed of it. Over a year of printing, this can add up to a very significant amount of time. Very often I will print-preview a part to see the support generation and time the print will take, I may have to modify the settings if it is taking too long or maybe I saw that I really should have bumped up the infil by 10% to make a hollow part have some strength. Now to me, that adds up to a lot of time. This is just one example, but the speed at which is works at is consistently very high. Makerware which is traditionally a very powerful slicer with great support generation handled this piece in a little over 2 minutes. This is quite a large print with over 510,000 lines. Simplify 3D sliced this at moderate settings in 15 seconds. Also from here on in I am going to compare to 2 other popular slicers, the proprietary Makerware and the open-source Slic3r. Here is the test piece I am going to be using for the remainder of this article and I will start by using it to show the time saved. In my scenario, I do 3D printing as a full-time job so time spent slicing does actually cost me money. I can easily say that the slicer hands down is the best, fastest and most reliable I have used. The only reason anyone buys it is for the slicer it comes with. However, no one buys S3D because of the control panel.
HOW TO USE SIMPLIFY 3D WINDOWS
I just find it a little easier to have 2 programs running doing separate tasks instead of having two windows of S3D open. What I actually do in practice is I export the gcode generated from S3D and import it into Repetier Host to actually print it while leaving S3D open to slice and prepare more prints at the same time. A little more colour in there wouldn’t hurt. It definitely does all that you need to I just don’t like how it looks. Personally, I find the control panel to be ugly and I don’t prefer it. Firstly, S3D acts as a slicer and printer controlling software at the same time, so it allows you to run the 3D printer from the same software that slices it which is useful.
HOW TO USE SIMPLIFY 3D TRIAL
In order to effectively review this software and acknowledging that there is no trial period, first I must explain the price of the software and why you should consider it. This is in no specific order, just going through them all.Īt $149 USD, Simplif圓D’s cost is quite high considering that you can buy fully functional printers for around $350 USD and open-source software is very powerful in its own right. I will go through almost every feature this program offers and how it is useful and where improvements could be made.
I also wish that in writing this review the company will respond and take on recommendations from the public as it is by far the biggest issue with it. The program has saved me so much time and money, I support the company by writing this.
The program does of course have its issues and is not perfect, but I do want to explain this all to people. I believe that this software is extremely useful and while it has a lot of public support for it, it gets attacked unfairly. Today I am going to write an in-depth review into the 3D printing software, Simplif圓D.
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