Better Seams: An Orca Slicer Guide to Using Scarf Seams

A guide on how to use the scarf-seam feature in Orca Slicer. Includes extensive tips and tricks and optimization data.
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PSA: If you are using Orca Slicer V2.2 and above, there's a bug which causes slope/spiral z-hop to not work on models with scarf seams turned on. This will result in ugly blobs/marks on the outer perimeter.

The only way to fix this is to switch z-hop type to normal(not recommended, I tried and stringing was crazy even printing out of a dryer), turn off scarf seams, or roll back to Orca 2.1.x. I can confirm scarf seams are working as intended on V 2.1.1, not sure about 2.1.2.

I was losing my mind and wasted tons of filament because of this issue for months before I realised it was an obscure bug and not something to do with my printer/settings. Posting this here so it reaches more scarf seam users, hope this helps you guys avoid that.

Example of what the "blobs" looked like v

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