About anycubicslicer.net
An independent guide to Anycubic Slicer — the dual-workflow slicer used by FDM and resin makers running Anycubic Kobra and Photon machines.
What Anycubic Slicer Is
A free desktop slicer built by Anycubic for owners of their FDM and resin 3D printers.
Anycubic Slicer is the official desktop application Anycubic ships with its 3D printers. It takes a 3D model in STL, OBJ, 3MF or AMF, lays out the build plate, generates supports, and exports either G-code for an FDM machine or a sliced resin file for an LCD/MSLA printer. One install handles both workflows, which is unusual for a free slicer.
The version most makers run today is Anycubic Slicer Next (currently 1.3.9.3), an OrcaSlicer-based fork that gets a fresh build every few weeks. The older line, Anycubic Slicer 1.4.x, was based on PrusaSlicer and is no longer in active development. If you came here looking for the slicer that is actively patched and matched to the newest Kobra and Photon firmware, it is the Next branch.
How Anycubic Slicer Got Here
Two slicer families, one rebrand, and a faster release cadence on the OrcaSlicer fork.
The Photon Workshop era
Anycubic shipped Photon Workshop with its resin printers and leaned on Cura and PrusaSlicer profiles for FDM users. The two workflows lived in separate apps.
Anycubic Slicer 1.x
Anycubic released its first unified slicer based on PrusaSlicer. It bundled Kobra profiles, Anycubic filament presets, and a single UI that could prep both FDM and resin jobs.
The OrcaSlicer pivot
The team forked OrcaSlicer and rebuilt the app as Anycubic Slicer Next. Users coming from Bambu Studio felt at home. Release notes started appearing every two to four weeks.
Skip Part and Kobra S1
Skip Part landed for the Kobra S1, letting users skip a failed object on a multi-part plate without restarting the print. Mac builds reached parity with Windows for remote print.
Slicer Next 1.3.9.3
Released March 2026, with refreshed Kobra 3 Max profiles, expanded filament library, and faster slicing on multi-plate projects. The legacy 1.4.x line is now archive-only.
What People Use It For
From a first Kobra benchy to multi-plate production runs and dental-grade resin work.
FDM print prep
Slice for Kobra, Kobra 2, Kobra 3, Kobra 3 Max, and Kobra S1 with vendor-tuned profiles for layer height, retraction, speed, and bed adhesion.
Resin workflows
Slice masked LCD prints for Photon Mono and Photon M3 series, with anti-aliasing, exposure tests, and hollowing built in.
Calibration prints
Run flow rate, retraction, temperature tower, and pressure advance calibrations without leaving the slicer.
Remote print
Push a sliced job to any cloud-connected Anycubic printer over the network. Watch progress and start the next plate from your desk.
Multi-color printing
Pair the slicer with the Anycubic filament box for AMS-style multi-color jobs, with paint-on color and per-object filament assignment.
Skip Part
If one object on a plate fails mid-print, the Kobra S1 can skip just that piece and finish the rest. Saves filament, saves time.
The Team Behind the Slicer
Shenzhen Anycubic Technology builds the printers, the filament line, and the slicer that ties them together.
Anycubic Slicer is developed by Shenzhen Anycubic Technology Co., Ltd., a Chinese 3D printing company founded in 2015. They are best known for the Photon resin family that helped open up affordable LCD printing, and for the Kobra FDM line that competes directly with Bambu Lab and Creality.
The slicer team works in the open with the OrcaSlicer community. Anycubic Slicer Next inherits the AGPL v3 license from OrcaSlicer, and feature work moves between the two projects on a regular basis. The company is responsible for the printer profiles, the filament library, the cloud print backend, and the Anycubic-specific UI.
Why Makers Stick With It
Familiar interface, real Anycubic profiles, and updates that keep up with new printers.
The most common feedback on Reddit’s r/Anycubic and r/3Dprinting is that the OrcaSlicer fork feels familiar to anyone who has used Bambu Studio or vanilla OrcaSlicer. The settings panels match, keyboard shortcuts match, and the calibration suite is the same. New Kobra owners can sit down and slice their first benchy without studying a manual.
The other thing that gets mentioned a lot: Anycubic actually ships profiles for their own hardware. Cura needs community profiles for Kobra 3 and Kobra S1 features like the textured PEI plate or Skip Part. Anycubic Slicer Next has them on day one. Mac users in particular have called out that remote print finally works on their machines, which had been a sore spot for years.
About anycubicslicer.net
A fan-made resource. Independent of Anycubic. Built to help you find the right download and the right setup steps.
Not affiliated with Anycubic
anycubicslicer.net is an independent, fan-made informational site. We are not owned by, operated by, or endorsed by Shenzhen Anycubic Technology Co., Ltd. The Anycubic name and the Anycubic Slicer name belong to their owner and are used here for descriptive purposes only.
This site exists because finding the right slicer build for the right printer is harder than it should be. Anycubic ships two product lines (Slicer 1.4.x and Slicer Next), there are direct downloads on the Anycubic CDN, mirrors on anycubicslicer.com, and a wiki at wiki.anycubic.com. New users tend to land on the older 1.4.x build by accident.
What we do here:
- Link to the official direct download for the current Anycubic Slicer Next build, hosted on Anycubic’s own CDN.
- Document the install steps, the system requirements, and the first-run setup so a new Kobra owner can get a print started in under fifteen minutes.
- Explain features like Skip Part, remote print, and multi-color in plain language, with screenshots from the actual app.
- Answer the questions people keep asking on Reddit and the Anycubic forum.
What we do not do:
- We do not host the installer ourselves. Every download button on this site links to Anycubic’s official servers.
- We do not modify, repackage, or bundle the slicer with other software.
- We do not offer technical support for hardware problems. For warranty, RMA, or printer firmware issues, talk to Anycubic directly.
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For corrections, suggestions, or general feedback about this site, head to the Contact page. For official Anycubic Slicer support, including bugs in the app and printer firmware questions, please go to the official Anycubic Slicer page or the Anycubic wiki.
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