Repetier-Host FREE 3d printing slicer - how does it compare to Cura 4.4?

Hey guys, Tech Nibbers here. Today we are taking a look at yet another slicer. It's actually the slicer that came with my TiVo Tarantula Pro. It is called Repeater Host and it looks very familiar. If you look up here on the right side, you can see that it says slice with Cura engine. There are other options. If you go in here, you can also slice it with the slicer engine and the Prusa slicer engine. So this slicer is capable of doing things that these three slicers can do and it can do all of them fairly well. If I go into the manager here and bring this in, you can get a little information about these things. It basically, there's a license there for things and permissions and stuff like that. The actual slicer here is changeable as well. I'm going to leave it for now and you can change profiles, add slicers, things like that. I'm going to go ahead and leave this alone. You can see when I have my Cura engine brought up that I have some print settings here. The configuration, the adhesion type, the quality, the support type, speed, infill density, your basic settings. If I go in and open slicer Prusa edition, it changes things for me and gives me a more Prusa slicer specific interface and options. I'm going to go back to Cura here. We will import a model and slice it up here pretty soon, but I wanted to check out the manual control option here. Now, I am not connected to a printer, but this is a very easy way to control your printer when it is plugged in and turned on. As far as monitoring the bed temperature, the extruder, you can adjust the fan and the feed rate all from here and control your X, Y, Z axis as well as your extruder. If you want to, say, calibrate your E-steps, you can pump in some G-code here or just hit 10 millimeters on the feed for the extruder and pump it out there. That's a very, very nice addition. Most slicers have these now. This one is just very simple and very well designed. I know the buttons are grayed out right now, but you get the gist of all of that. There are also some SD card options. Now, I don't have an SD card inserted right now either, but this is very handy as well because it is basically right next to the manual control. You have basically your two forms of communicating with the printer and some options for each of them, which is very handy. Let's go ahead and bring a model in and start slicing it up. As you can see here, I have this. It is an object just called spinner disc. This is for another video that I'm working on. You'll get to see more about that later. I'm going to go ahead and go in here and rotate and rotate 90, slide it over here. I am going to be using Kira Engine to slice this. We'll slice it up real quick. I will throw it on the printer. We'll come back in a little bit and I will show you what it looks like, how it comes out. I'm very pleased with Rupitier so far. It does a very good job. Let's pop back in here real quick and just show you. It says print preview and you can do show a single layer here or a layer range, which is kind of cool. You can roll through and see exactly what it's going to put down and where. We'll jump back to this when it's done printing and I'll show you how the final model came out. If you want to try Rupitier for yourself, it is available online for free. I will try to find a link and put it down below. It is very, very sufficient for most slicing needs. Then you have the option of using the different engines as well to slice your model. Instead of going back and forth looking for something in PrusaSlicer that you can't find in Kira, you can generally do all of those things right from here. I also have this model open in Kira right now. It's the exact same model. At 0.2 mm layer heights with printing temperature at 220, my speed is set to 60 mm per second. Oh no, it's at 90. Let's change that. It's going to be 60. We'll re-slice this and this is Kira 4.3 I believe I'm using at the moment. Okay, so this is coming out to 7 hours 45 minutes. I'll show you a couple other things real quick. No adhesion, no support, all that good stuff. Infill is at 10%. Let's change that to 15 because that's what I have it set as. You'll see why I'm doing this in just a second here. Let it slice. There we are, 7 hours and 50 minutes. Print temp 220, 15% infill, 60 mm per second. We're just going to close Kira. I've also got it open in repeatier host here and I have the same settings. 2 mm, no adhesion. I have it set to fast print which is 60 mm per second and infill density, whoa, way up at 50%. We want that at 15% and cooling is enabled. We'll slice it and remember there are two other engines you can slice this within there to get a couple different settings. Things like that. But I am printing this at 3 hours 10 minutes and 39 seconds. So that's the print we're going to go with. I did already print one, a 10 hour print sliced with Kira. I have it here. We'll compare the two when I'm done with the repeatier host version and see how it comes out. And as you can see I have my part here that we sliced in repeatier host. It is relatively nice. I did warp it a little pulling it off the bed because the bed was still hot. So I simply turned it upside down on a flat surface and flattened it back out. But other than that the holes and things like that are pretty dimensionally accurate. So we're going to roll with this. If you'd like to see what I'm doing with this you'll have to subscribe to the channel and watch out for future videos. I'm doing a build video coming up and you will see exactly what this piece is for. But for now that's going to be it. I just wanted to let you guys know if you want to try repeatier host. I will try to remember to put a link down below. If I forget go ahead and yell at me in the comments. That's basically it. I really enjoy using repeatier. I like the fact that you could switch back and forth between slicing engines. Although it did make it a little difficult to find particular settings for particular engines. But if you had enough time to sit here and check every setting in this thing I think you'd be quite surprised to find out what it could do. And I know I enjoyed using it. So thanks for watching guys. That's going to be it. As always this channel was brought to you by these fine Patreon supporters. If you'd like to support the channel on Patreon head over to www.patreon.com slash technivorous. All right guys that's going to be the end of this video. As always thank you. I'll put a video up right here that you can check out for more of our stuff. And if you're still here and you haven't already why don't you click right here and subscribe to the channel.