Opening in your slicer

Open After

Tick Open After on a target row and its project opens in that target’s slicer as soon as it is saved: in Bambu Studio for a Bambu Studio target, in PrusaSlicer for a PrusaSlicer target, and so on. It doesn’t use whichever app your computer links to .3mf files, which is usually just one of your slicers.

The choice is saved per target in each group. For an UltiMaker Cura target with several plate files, the first one opens and the others are saved beside it.

To see the files instead, tick the group’s Open the output folder after translation.

How 3MF Translator finds your slicers

It looks where each slicer installs itself:

• Windows: the slicer’s install folder, then the place Windows recorded when it was installed.
• macOS: the Applications folder, yours or the computer’s.
• Linux: the Flatpaks of Bambu Studio, Orca Slicer, PrusaSlicer, Snapmaker Orca, Creality Print and UltiMaker Cura.

The same install is where it reads the slicer’s printer and filament presets for your targets.

If a slicer can’t be found when a project should open, the message at the end of the translation says Not found on this computer and offers to set its location.

Setting a slicer’s location

Preferences → Slicer locations… lists every slicer with the program 3MF Translator uses for it, or auto-detect / not found.

• Browse… picks the slicer’s program yourself: the .exe on Windows, the app in Applications on macOS, the program or AppImage on Linux. Use it for a slicer installed somewhere unusual, or to choose between two installs, such as a release and a beta.
• Reset goes back to finding it by itself.

Linux slicers you run as an AppImage

Several slicers come for Linux as an AppImage. Set the slicer’s location to its AppImage in Preferences → Slicer locations…. 3MF Translator then also reads that slicer’s printer presets from the AppImage, so New target lists its printers. The first time takes a few seconds while it unpacks the presets; it does that again only when the AppImage changes.