Matterslice much?

Stumbled across this after reading nophead's blog. Not sure about the metro style up, but it seems like a nice evolution. Any one heard of it or used it?

No idea, never heard of it, apparently a new slicer.. Curious how it works though

I understand it's part of [www.mattercontrol.com]

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http://www.marinusdebeer.nl/

Yeah, Nophead was talking about "something" on his blog, and someone in the comments mentioned they would run "it" through MatterSlice so thought I'd google it. There's not much information around about the slicer part, it's run by MatterHackers.

Might play with it later though

I've installed it on my mac, but to be honest, I didn't even try the Slicer out because the interface makes me cry.

It's obviously ported in some simple way as the usual mac menus (in the top bar) are nonexistent. There is a lot of stuff unclear, for example selecting your printer after you made the profile, apparently you have to go to 'add printer' once more to select it for the software.

Maybe the PC version is a lot better, I hope so. Will give it a try to slice and print with it tomorrow or maybe in an hour or two to see how it does, I mean, eventually the interface is just to control the program, if it brilliantly slices my difficult STL's, I might just stick with this (however I'm very happy with Cura a.t.m.)

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http://www.marinusdebeer.nl/

Cura hasn't been a success for me, and I don't know why. I am planning to give it another go. I'm starting to get the hang of Slic3r, but I don't like the way it does support material.

I'm with you on the UI. On the PC it looks like a Metro app, very flat, not a lot of distinction between regions, plain rectangles for controls. It's not a good look imo. But you're right of course, if it makes my models come out peachy keen then I'd muddle on with it

From what I have heard the Matter program uses the Cura engine.

No linux version so it's a /dev/zero utilization for me.
And yes I have see too that the matterslicer use a Cura Engine fork.

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From what I have heard the Matter program uses the Cura engine.

From what I have actually seen on the screen (Mac version), it offers menu choices to use CuraEngine, Slic3r, or MatterSlice as your slice engine. Never tried any of them, since I use Cura and print from SD card.....

Yes, it's like repetier in that you can select which slicer to use, but it's their own slicer that I'm interested in.