inventabuild wrote:KISSlicer makes better parts than anything else in the wild
Except if you're doing dual extrusion, which is an intolerable mess. The Wall/Short Wall generation deliberately overextrudes, apparently with no setting to stop it from doing so. It makes huge blobs on the wall, which the nozzle then drags over to the model, leaving nasty pockmarks. This makes KISSlicer unusable for dual-extrusion PLA printing, unless you're okay with the finished model looking like it caught a social disease. (Would you feel good about charging a customer for a 3D printed object with a bunch of blemishes on it? I wouldn't.) It might be okay for ABS, but I don't like all the hoops that stuff makes me jump through.
The person who maintains this slicer has an unfortunate tendency to stop releasing updates, or communicate with the user community about it, for months to years at a time. Even though I brought a Pro license, I'm starting to look at other slicers. None of them are as easy to configure as KISSlicer. Slic3r is alright, but it's terribly slow, so I never use it for anything but spiral vases (which KISS doesn't support at all). S3D is overpriced and run by a company that has been trying to sweep a critical G-code output bug under the rug for a long time, so... no thanks. MatterControl is free, but it's like The Death Of A Thousand Clicks. You have to wear out your mouse finding all the settings, adding them to lists of settings that you can then edit, etc. It's also not apparent how one would tell it which filament is in which extruder, and when you tell it to load multiple STLs, it places each one on its own platen, apparently missing the cue that I want to do multi-extrusion.
Hoping the author makes a comeback, but this isn't the first time they've gone AWOL. I just don't know what else to do.
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