Does anyone have a Cura profile for Sovol Zero?
Sovol moved from Cura to Orca starting with the SV08.
The only way to get a Cura profile is for a user to create & share one.
My recommendation is to forget Cura and learn Orca. Once you get the hang of it, you’ll see improved prints. The built-in flow rate and pressure advance calibration routines alone are worth the effort.
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There is a known bug in OrcaSlicer for some Linux users with some Nvidia graphics cards, where the popup list of printers is blank so it isn’t possible to import the Zero printer profile into OrcaSlicer. I hope the Zero profile for OrcaSlicer is on the USB thumb drive that ships with the Zero, because I haven’t been able to find it online. If not, I’ll need to ask Sovol to email the OrcaSlicer config file to me.
It will be on the USB.
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Have a look there:
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Thank you. I’d checked there before without any luck. I was planning to check again when I received my Zero. It looks like Sovol added most of those files on 10APR25, the day the US Zero shipments were scheduled to start.
There is an OrcaSlicer config for the Mac and Windows versions of OrcaSlicer. I’m not sure why all versions of OrcaSlicer don’t use the same config file. I’m running the Linux OrcaSlicer. The Mac cofig file for the Zero may work? If not, maybe someone will be kind enough to make screenshots of the OrcaSlicer pages so people can have the relevant configuration data to manually create a profile. I assume that’s going to be the best way to add the Zero without overwriting my SV08 profiles.
I’m still eagerly awaiting my Zero. The Sovol Zero web page still says US shipping is 10AUG25, which was six days ago. I’m hoping my order isn’t bumped to the next slow boat from China.
Thanks. That’s disappointing because I have a number of Sovol 7s on Cura and wanted the kids to use the same slicer for the Zero, which would have been cool for them. Orca seems a bit too steep for just this one printer.
You can move the SV07’s to Orca..
But I do understand, coming from Cura myself..it is a little hard to get used to.
Running Cura, Bambu Studio & Orca at the moment.
The Sovol Zero profile wasn’t yet included in the OrcaSlicer for Linux. But someone compiled a version and put a link in the OrcaSlicer discord which worked fine for me.
It had only 0.4 nozzle profiles though.
You can get the official nightly builds also for Linux from Releases · SoftFever/OrcaSlicer · GitHub (click the “Assets” link to show the files) that contain the Sovol Zero profiles until v2.3.1 has been released. No need to use packages compiled by “someone” as those may also contain other things you don’t want to have running on your PC.
I’m still running OrcaSlicer 2.3.1-dev and it’s very stable for me. It had the 0.4 mm nozzle generic profiles for the Zero but I’ve been mostly making my own profiles. I’m never going to find a good TPU-LW profile for a 0.6 mm nozzle, which I’ve been using a lot lately.
I just ordered three Microswiss nozzles on their Independence Day sale, not so much for the Zero but in anticipation that the SV08 Eddy upgrade tool head will use the same hot end as the Zero and SV08 Max, and one of those was a 1.0 mm CM2 high flow nozzle with a hardened steel sleeve so I can print large items with PET-CF on the SV08.
The lack of profiles other than 0.4 mm nozzles doesn’t bother me. I convert the line widths in the 0.4 mm nozzle profile into percentages of the nozzle diameter, and then use that profile for other nozzle sizes, only changing the nozzle diameter in the Extruder 1 tab under Printer Settings in OrcaSlicer and that seems to work well enough as a generic profile and I can tweak a bit from there to optimize it.
Just saying that it was not available when I got my printer. And those someone came from the OrcaSlicer team and exactly added this to v2.3.1 and probably uploaded it later to the github where then people like you were able to get too.