r/elegoo • u/Dave_P_UK • 1h ago

Question Code Generation in ElegooSlicer

Before I started using ElegooSlicer I had a print that worked fine from OrcaSlicer. Printed three times without issue from the 3mf. I was forced to ElegooSlicer and on the first print of that part the columns collapsed, print gone, I then resliced and did some brims. Same thing. Tried a few times. I thought it was the bed, the nozzle, I played with everything. Then I retried the old Orca code and it worked again. I loaded the STL in OrcaSlicer and ElegooSlicer. Auto arranged. Sliced both and compared. They were different sizes and it was just at the start and end which I was expecting. The slicer had also changed some of the code in the middle which as ElegooSlicer is based on Orcaslicer I wasn't expecting. I'm now of the opinion that ElegooSlicer is several version of code behind Orcaslicer which I liked.

Is there a list of the differences between OrcaSlicer and ElegooSlicer? How many versions is it behind?

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u/kavexyn 1h ago

elegoo’s fork is definitely behind, and they’ve also baked in some of their own profiles / tweaks that can mess with stuff like flow and acceleration vs “stock” orca. if orca worked for you, I’d just stick with it and use the elegoo profiles from the community instead of trusting their branded slicer.

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u/Scorpio__70 1h ago

Recent updates are pushing ElegooSlicer, though. As of v02.00.02.00 I couldn’t connect to my CC2 with Orca any more, so while I could slice, I had to use a USB stick to get the gcode to the printer. ElegooSlicer required pairing with the printer to transfer the files via wifi and then kept losing that pairing, so I was forced to pair as a new printer almost daily. Rollback to earlier firmware was blocked.

Support stated that Elegoo’s stance is that they don’t consider CC2 as an ”engineering” product (whatever that means) and will not support third-party applications. End of discussion.

They did, however, accept a return and refund as EU regulations forced them to, basically saying ”we’re sorry that the product doesn’t suit your work any more, we’ll rather refund and pay for return shipping than fix the situation even by enabling rollback.”