Hi all, in common with many in the community, I’m finally going with the flow and switching to Orca Slicer (fed up with printer vendors locking us into their inferior ports of Orca - what a waste of resources!!). HOWEVER, it doesn’t seem to be able to integrate with the CFS (it talks to the printer fine, thanks to Creality using a reasonably standard Klipper firmware port). Has anyone found or written a plugin or extension to Orca to integrate with the Creality CFS?
Update to the above: actually, integration with CFS is better than I thought! It seems one can add material “slots” to Orca, and specify the loaded filament manually, in the same way as one does with Creality Print (I can now see how little they’ve changed CP from the upstream Orca). So, it looks like Orca does just about everything I need it to do - the one thing I haven’t tested is whether it will switch to an alternate filament reel when the current one runs out - that’s a feature of the CFS I really want to use, so I’m hoping it’s a facet of the printer firmware, not the slicer.
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Hi, note if you haven’t seen this yet, Orca has “beta” and other newer versions than their last official release. May want to consider one of these newest versions as there are surely some updates for this printer in particular.
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Really Glad I found this post, can you give me a quick rundown on how to do that so I can use my spool holder please with Orca slicer? Thank you very much!
Edit: I just found next to flushing volume add filaments and I thought I’d click on that and see that I’ve actually added filaments, not sure if that’s the way to do it or not and if it actually corresponds with any of my bays in the CFS or my spool holder!
Hi John, sorry, I’ve just seen your post. Sounds like you’re on your way - yes I just added filaments in the same way you did (by the sound of it) and the first four were taken by Orca as the CFS slots. The fifth is the “manual” load, which TBH I use most of the time now, as it’s MUCH more reliable than using the CFS 
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