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by Polygonhell » Fri Dec 30, 2016 3:03 pm
I'm not a fan of Simplify 3D either, but ignoring the license issue it's not bad, IMO it basically has feature parity with the free slicers, and a better user interface than most of them. I suspect a lot of people find it easier to use just because it has decent built in profiles for a lot of printers.
Lots of people love it's support, I find it no better than the free sllicers, though it does allow you to manually place it, which I have used only once in fact to work around a bug where it would not place support correctly.
Is it worth it, I own it and I do use it occasionally to Slice things, but I'm pretty insensitive to the cost. KissSlicer is still my go to Slicer, probably followed by S3D and then Cura. I really like the new Cura, but it's falling into the Skeinforge trap of too many settings exposed, it has a simple mode where most of the settings are hidden, but I don't like some of the advanced feature defaults.