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  Color change

  PrusaSlicer lets you schedule a filament change at a certain layer. This can be used to print basic multicolored models. The printer automatically pauses the print as soon as it ...

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  Insert pause or custom G-code at layer

  Insert pause at layer Inserting a pause at a certain height can be used to insert magnets, weights or nuts into your prints. When you resume the print, these inserted objects ...

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  Text tool

  The Text tool lets you easily add labels, notes, signs, serial or version numbers to your models directly in PrusaSlicer. You can add text to any type of surface, not ...

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  Modifiers

  In some cases, you might want to change some settings just for a specific section of your model. For example, you might want part of your model to have denser ...

• Negative volume

  The negative volume lets you subtract one mesh from another. That way you can, for example, create easily resizable holes directly in PrusaSlicer. Right-click on a model and pick Negative volume from ...

• Post-processing scripts

  There are some things that PrusaSlicer simply doesn’t do. However, using post-processing scripts you can automatically modify the generated G-code to do (almost) anything you want. You can specify the path ...

• Simplify mesh

  3D scans and sculpted models often have a huge number of triangles, making them difficult to work with. These files can slow PrusaSlicer down, take a very long time to ...

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  Per model settings

  With PrusaSlicer, you can print multiple models at once, each with slightly different settings. For example, with different infill or layer height.  Right-click (Advanced mode) on a model and pick either: Infill Layers ...

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  G-code substitutions

  This feature will be available in PrusaSlicer 2.4.1 PrusaSlicer offers simple G-Code post-processing by specifying find and replace pairs, with optional regex matching, case sensitivity and whole word matching, similar to ...

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  Reload from disk

  This feature is great for cases, where you created a newer version of your model and you wish to replace the old version in PrusaSlicer without having to set up ...