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I know you can disable the prime tower at a trade off in quality, but why not poop out the priming instead of wasting build plate space?

Am I missing a setting in Orca?

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It's not like the slicer adjusts the prime tower to be close to the objects. In fact it does the opposite: It places the prime tower in the far corner.

From googling it seems like if you turn off the prime tower, it primes into the purge area. This means there's no point to the prime tower except for printers that can't purge.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Well, turn it off and see how the quality goes.