Welcome to the OrcaSlicer Wiki
OrcaSlicer is a powerful open source slicer for FFF (FDM) 3D Printers. This wiki page aims to provide an detailed explanation of the slicer settings, how to get the most out of them as well as how to calibrate and setup your printer.
- Printer Settings
- Material Settings
- Process Settings
- Prepare
- Calibrations
- General Settings
- Developer Section
Note
Please consider contributing to the wiki following the How to contribute to the wiki guide.
Printer Settings

Settings related to the 3D printer hardware and its configuration.
- Basic Information
Machine G_Code
- Multimaterial
- Extruder
Motion ability
Material Settings

Settings related to the 3D printing material.
- Material settings
Material Cooling
Setting Overrides
Advanced
Multimaterial
Dependencies
Process Settings

Settings related to the 3D printing process.
Quality Settings

Settings related to print quality and aesthetics.
Layer Height Settings
Line Width Settings
Seam Settings
Precision
Ironing
- Z Contouring
Wall generator
Walls and surfaces
Bridging
Overhangs
Strength Settings

Settings related to print strength and durability.
Speed Settings

Settings related to print speed and movement.
Initial Layer Speed
Other Layers Speed
Overhang Speed
Travel Speed
Acceleration
Jerk (XY)
Advanced / Extrusion rate smoothing
Support Settings

Settings related to support structures and their properties.
Multimaterial Settings

Settings related to multimaterial printing.
Others Settings

Settings related to various other print settings.
Prepare
First steps to prepare your model/s for printing.
- Right-Click Menu
- STL Transformation
- Work In Progress...
- Toolbar
- Basic
Auto Orient
Auto Arrange
Object Set
Variable Layer Height
- Object Manipulation
Cutting Tool
Mesh Boolean
- Painting/Marking Tools
- Assembly Tools
Calibrations
The Calibration Guide outlines Orca’s key calibration tests and their suggested order of execution.
General Settings
Developer Section
This is a documentation from someone exploring the code and is by no means complete or even completely accurate. Please edit the parts you might find inaccurate. This is probably going to be helpful nonetheless.
- How to build OrcaSlicer
- How to run tests
- Localization and translation guide
- How to create profiles
- How to contribute to the wiki
- Preset, PresetBundle and PresetCollection
- Plater, Sidebar, Tab, ComboBox
- Built-in placeholders & variables
- Slicing Call Hierarchy
- How to Download Pull Requests Artifacts for Testing