Polar Cloud VS AstroPrint

Do you need to access your printer over the internet? Possibly not. But your position is that BL are sending data to their cloud service without good reason. That it offers a feature not provided by Octoprint and Mainsail is that good reason. There are even 3rd party services for Octoprint to ADD this functionality and they charge money for it e.g. https://polar3d.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

Polar Cloud is hosted in the west and in my opinion integrates better with the printer than Flashcloud. Source: over 2 years ago

Have 3 flashforge guider IIs that connect to polar cloud, https://polar3d.com/. Don’t know if this is a flashforge program or 3rd party. There is a setting to allow for polar cloud connect. Source: over 2 years ago

Use astroprint.com, I get good prints from the default profile using this. Tweak to your liking. Source: over 1 year ago

Thats what my dad did and it worked for me, my printer had another 3 days of work before its first print, also to get your prints to stick to the plate (if you have this problem) put some painters tape over the deck and put spray adhesive over the tape, wait for it to dry, and print. For software to use on windows (or mac) download cura (its free) and for chrome (or if you dont want to download/ have a slow... Source: over 1 year ago

I'd certainly reccomend it since you need to convert the 3d model into gcode that the printer can process, but there are a handful of web based slicers like these: realvisiononline.com astroprint.com grid.space/kiri/. Source: over 2 years ago

That should get OctoPrint up and running! Now as for slicing, I use Astroprint! It’s pretty easy to add the Astroprint plug-in to OctoPrint, and works like a charm! With my Ender 3 it uses Cura 3.6.0 as the default slicer, and I’ve not had any issues with it so far. (Outside the normal growing pains of learning to 3D print, anyway.) Astroprint is free for a normal account, so you can be up and running quickly and... Source: about 3 years ago