OrcaSlicer 2.2.0 introduced a couple of big things to make it useful as a CuraLE replacement:
Toolchanger support, and pre-heating toolheads.
I had previously put together a pretty good profile for 2.1, but since there was no toolchanger support, you had to manually edit filament profiles to add code to heat the nozzles properly. Since you can now tell the slicer how long it takes your nozzle to re-heat, I’ve got PLA dialed in to hit extrusion temperature within 2 seconds of the new nozzle being needed. If I turned off the prime tower, color/material changes would be almost free in terms of print time.
OrcaSlicer still does not have fields for probe or wipe temperatures, and the way that soften/vitrification temperature is used does not align with how it is used in the nozzle wipe sequence for the Taz Pro. I still rely on dynamically setting those temperatures based on the filament type, but at how important it is to have a perfectly clean nozzle, having those set per-filament would be nice.
If anyone is running a completely stock Taz Pro and is interested in helping test it before I try and go through the steps to make it part of the main distribution, let me know. I’ve made it a point not to add improvements (like BLTouch) to the Pro I got just so that I could get good profiles in the main distros for various slicers. Once that’s done I can start modifying the Pro to try and get it in line with modern tech.