Orca Slicer for Airplanes using any printer - SoarKraft
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- This video is about using the free Orca Slicer from SoftFever to 3D print Light Weight, or any material, Airplane parts with just about any FDM 3D Printer. These are the setting you need to change to get it to work for the SoarKraft models. Other files may work too, but that is up to you to figure out. 3D Printing RC airplanes is a fun and inexpensive way to get into the hobby.... build, fly and crash knowing you can easily print another. So fun.
More information available at:
soarkraft.com/
This hobby and 3D printing is continuing to change at a fast pace with new ideas, machines and software. This video shows using the Orca Slicer and any 3D printer to print light weight designed airplane parts to build a flyable radio controlled glider. Our designs and our CAD modeling is different from other files available, but the same ideas apply. This slicer is new for planes and has some qualities that some users may question... well we try to answer some of those questions.
Find test parts and slicer config files and settings here:
soarkraft.com/pages/how-to-an...
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Prusa Slicer - www.prusa3d.com/page/prusasli...
Bambu Studio - bambulab.com/en/download/studio
Orca Slicer - github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer
Cura Slicer - ultimaker.com/software/ultima...
Simplify3D Slicer - www.simplify3d.com/software/f...
PLA - amzn.to/3CDjGlH
eSun Foaming LW-PLA - amzn.to/3ScKrTE may be out of stock
ColorFabb LW-PLA - store.flitetest.com/colorfabb...
Bambu Lab Aero PLA - us.store.bambulab.com/product...
SainSmart LW-PLA - not available yet????
Polymaker LW-PLA - amzn.to/3TyeSoF
00:00 Intro
00:52 Orca Slicer Limitations
03:45 Filament Settings
06:25 Process Settings
10:06 Wall Loop Direction
11:03 Project Layout
12:35 Final Thoughts
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Thanks for the guidance wayne - I'll give it a try
Awesome video. I might just have to try making an LW PLA pika now.
I printed a pika in ASA and it flies so well. The fact that a total beginner fixed wing pilot like myself was able to do 3 flights, about 5m each, with 2 crashes and 1 “landing”, and still go home with a flying plane, is a testament to the great design.
Also fun fact about the design, if you print two whole planes in different colors, you can mix and match the parts to create two planes with cool inverse color schemes 😂
I miss slope flying. California has many issues but great slope flying.
Power Pods are fun too.
Having struggled with foaming PLA (Aero), I gave your configs a try and got much nicer parts. Your infill at 15% seemed a bit heavy so I experimented all the way down to 3% gyroid and the part still seems strong. Your config has 2 walls but you stated 3. I tried both and didn't see much of a different in strength, only weight. Thanks for the helpful information! I had almost given up on foaming PLA.
This is a great video, I have been using Orca to slice my planes, I'm learning little by little and every bit helps! So many questions and so many settings but I'm making headway. I've been looking at your planes and will end up with one, it will have to be motorized as I have no terrain for slope sorers. Thanks so much for sharing with us!
There is a power pod
This is Awesome just came across this. Have to ask what's the differences between LW-PLA and ASA-AERO
ASA-AERO from QIDI? I have seen LW-ASA from ColorFabb. Have not tried ether. I do not have issues with the LW-PLA and sun or heat with the white material, and it prints easily and I can get to 45% weight of regular PLA without too much trouble. It prints similarly (according to the info) but mentions warping... probably needs a good enclosure to print and it should be fine.
Why such a high sparse infill? Surely 100% is way to high? Most of the planes I have printed have been between 3% to 5% cubic subdivision. Is it just the way your planes are designed? The wall direction trick is awesome, going to update orca right now lol, very cool addition
Some planes are designed for "vase mode" or 0 infill, mine are not. I use single and multiple walls and some small solid sections in the same part... "vase mode" cant do that... and adding any infill to these "vase mode" parts total hoses the reason for "vase mode" and adds travel paths that are completely undefined by the design. There are many other reasons I did what I did, but this is one of them
Titan Dynamics have very diffirent print settings from yours. Especially, infill is mostly 3%, and 5-8% for fuselage.
Do these settings work with plane print planes? Their profiles are for cura using an mk3 or at least they used to be. Never did like cura.
Plane Print planes can only be printed with Cura.... otherwise they fly upside down ;)
@@soarkraft Yeah. I tried the big bobber from plane print using their cura settings and only ended up wasting a lot of filament.
Would Bambu pla-aero be considered foaming or pre-foamed?
Foaming
One way to tell if from the recommended temperatures.
Foaming is 230-270
pre-foamed is 190-220
Foaming - best results at 250..... ~45% the weight of regular PLA
different temp = more / less foaming
Pre-foamed is always 68%ish the weight of regular PLA regardless of temp...
also
Prefoamed usually comes in 800g spool - another way to tell. Overture Prefoamed LW-PLA is the only one I have found that sells a 820g roll.... its about as much as a roll can hold.
@@soarkraft thank you very much for this information. Very useful to know.
Any experience with ColorFab's LW-PLA HT?
not yet but on the list, LW-ASA also... rolls of both coming
@@soarkraft Well then, you've earned my subscription....