In an effort to help clean up some bugs within Sovol’s Orca Slicer profiles, I’ve forked their Github repo and started making some updates. Feel free to follow along or provide feedback and/or updates. Hopefully this will help Orca and Sovol get on the same page a little quicker with their updates.
This is a combination of Orca’s 2.3.0 build, Sovol’s Github based off of March 12th commit, and the USB stick that was provided upon purchase. Shockingly, (not really though) they are all different.
A few things to note:
I am unable to test all of these as I do not own all of the printers, so use cautiously and at your own risk.
Rather then “Replace” the files as shown in the PDF provided within the link, I would delete the “Sovol” folder first or rename the folder to something else (i.e. Sovol_Orig), then add the new (may work on an updated guide in the future).
If you see an issue, upgrade or improvement, feel free to reach out.
This is also a work in progress. Some values may be off and/or missing. If you have a value that is proven to work and is missing here, feel free to share.
A noble endeavor! More work than I’m willing to take on.
I do Have 1 request. When editing profiles please define line widths as a percent (of nozzle diameter) I’m a huge fan of 0.5 nozzles but almost have to take a .4 profile and edit all the widths to precents then change the nozzle diameter in machine/extruder settings.
Perhaps someone could write a utility that would search/calculate/replace ALL the .4 jason files and give them a different name indicating they are in precents.
I’ve seen it both ways in the past. I think I’m with you on the percentage. Takes the guess work out of it. Would just need to determine what percentage to use for each process. Should be pretty straight forward.
Anyone happen to know available sizes for each machine (or any of them)? Trying to get a list together. After doing a quick search, this is what I’ve came up with so far.
@Lion I’m not sure to be honest. I saw Sovol had a nozzle kit online for the ZERO which included the 0.2 and went up to 1.0. Will add the 0.8 for the SV06.
@cardoc I was thinking as long as the nozzle is an even swap to the machine without any modifications (i.e. .4 MK8 to .6 MK8 and not .4 MK8 to .6 Volcano).
Another round of updates. I’ve added Quality, Standard and Fast profiles to each nozzle size. I’m sure the values will need to be tweaked slightly, but there’s now at least three options to choose from per nozzle size, per machine.
Technically, no as long as you are not deleting the “OrcaSlicer” folder found within the “Roaming” folder. This is where your custom profiles (or profiles you have modified then saved) are stored. There are several ways to backup or copy the custom profiles just in case. Maybe it’s time I made an updated guide. Give me a bit and will see what I can come up with.
