Multi color prints?

[SticKx911]

I just impulse bought a centauri carbon 2 kit with the canvas setup. I took about a year off of 3d printing, but I never did multi color.

Any good tips or suggestions on successful prints using multi color? I always just used cura to slice, but is that sufficient still?

 

[Darunion]

Orca slicer is pretty good to use. Cura isnt maintained anymore

https://www.orcaslicer.com/

 

[modi123]

Cura isnt maintained anymore

That's not quite accurate. Cura dropped a 5.13 a few months back and currently 5.14 is in alpha testing.

https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura
https://ultimaker.com/software/ultimaker-cura/#downloads

 

[Darunion]

That's not quite accurate. Cura dropped a 5.13 a few months back and currently 5.14 is in alpha testing.

https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura
https://ultimaker.com/software/ultimaker-cura/#downloads

ah, i did a quick look, not well enough it seems.

 

[SticKx911]

Getting the hang of orca still, but this printer is light years better than my old Neptune 4.

 

[1_rick]

Getting the hang of orca still, but this printer is light years better than my old Neptune 4.

The state of the art seems to have improved a lot. I have a Snapmaker U1 and it's pretty much click and print, even with 4 colors. Plus the multi toolhead setup is drastically faster and produces far less waste than the older single had designs.