
STACKER 500KS USER GUIDE 35
When your heads are positioned and secured to belt, you are ready for multihead printing.
5.10. Multimaterial Print Mode
For multimaterial printing, STACKER recommends purchasing Simplify3D and following their
tutorials.
https://www.simplify3d.com/
5.11. Slicing Engines
Slicing engines are used to convert an stl file of into gcode which operates the printer. The gcode
provides the commands for the printer to print your 3D object. STACKER RUN includes two open
source slicing engines (Slic3r and Cura), and both of these slicing engines do a good job.
Nevertheless, we highly recommends purchasing Simplify3D. We have found Simplify3D to be one
of the best slicing engines on the market.
The links below can help familiarize you with the operation of a slicing engine.
Slic3r
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http://manual.slic3r.org/intro/overview
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https://www.simplify3d.com/support/