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Apart from blow up printers, the one scariest thing for me about a slicer is losing settings. You spend hours getting your printer dialed in, specific profiles per material and then..

You update your slicer software and it all goes away. I have now learned Cura does this. And does this a lot. Forum posts abound about it. Friends recommend I switch to Prusa because it happened to them. Unfortunately too late for me to write down my old settings, and they're apparently not in the ~/.config/cura folder anymore. Nice.

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[–] dumbcrumb@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yea I remember switching to prusa slicer because of this and I also seem to get nicer prints aside from seams not being great but I alsp haven't put much effort into trying to fix that. Never lost my settings on prusa.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 7 months ago

Yea, planning to give it a try. I just found the settings in .local/share/cura so that's at least a good thing, but what a headache.