3/18/2023 0 Comments Bit slicer keybinds![]() Seems like a rather big oversight in 2021. Or a trackpoint, that should work pretty well, too. The only option was to kill it from the task manager.Īnd as far as nuisances with usability go – neither one is particularly usable on a laptop with a touchpad or on a touchscreen, moving around and rotating the view properly simply is impossible without using an actual mouse. I’ve actually managed to swing the window off-screen a couple of times and then had no way to get it back on screen. I’d love to show you nice side-by-side layouts, but both Chitubox versions use some weird windows framework that not only glitches around when you move the window, but it also doesn’t support any of the Windows hotkeys to snap the window to one half of the screen or minimize and maximize it. It’s almost as if Chitu Systems saw their old Chitubox, back then still called Chitubox “Free”, decided it needed a new UI because the old one was so messy, made a whole new UI, and then decided “oh, this turned out better than expected, let’s charge for this and just keep the old one around for the free one”. ![]() In Pro, you’ve still got your options bar to the right, but at the top, you now have a ribbon-style interface that, yes, works really well, but it also makes Pro instantly look a lot more feature-rich compared to Basic, but a lot of the features that are now concentrated up in the ribbon are just simply in this central spot now instead of being cluttered throughout the UI. So, as soon as we open up Chitubox Basic and Chitubox Pro here, it’s pretty clear that these two are related, but Pro simply has a much more intuitive interface.īasic gives you some features up in a toolbar at the top with tiny, unlabeled icons, and then you switch your workspaces between layout and support generation, and from layout to the print preview, and then you can save out your print files. Chitu Systems also independently contacted me about joining their affiliate program, which would pay me a referral fee every time somebody bought Chitubox Pro through a link I could place, however, I declined that offer. So with Chitubox being the only software option that you can use with these printers, let’s check out what the differences are between Chitubox and Chitubox Pro and whether the “Pro” version is even worth $170 a year.ĭisclosure, I guess? I am using the free version of Chitubox, and the Pro version that was included with the Mars 3 provided to me by Elegoo. The official Chitubox slicer comes in two versions – a feature-limited, free version and a “Pro” version that comes as a $170 a year subscription service. The firmware running on these printers is set up to only accept files that are signed off by Chitu’s software, and while there’s been a promise of an “SDK” being made available eventually, we don’t know which conditions, restrictions, and license fees, that eventually, you as the user will pay, that SDK will ultimately come with. With Chitubox (Pro) being the only option as a slicer on the Elegoo Mars 3 and on future Chitu-based resin printers, let’s find out whether shelling out for Chitubox Pro is a necessity or mostly pointless.Īs of today, the Elegoo Mars 3 is locked down to only work with Chitu System’s Chitubox slicer – and any future printers from any manufacturer will be locked down, too, as long as they are built on the Chitu ecosystem.
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