Qidi Slicer: Qidi Studio Download, Setup, and Qidi Print

Qidi Studio is Qidi's free, official slicer for its current printers, and it is what most people mean when they say "Qidi slicer." It is a fork of Bambu Studio, which puts it in the same family as OrcaSlicer and PrusaSlicer, and it ships tuned profiles for machines like the Q1 Pro, Plus4, X-Max 3, and X-Plus 3. The older, separate product is Qidi Print, a Cura-based slicer for earlier machines. This guide covers what Qidi Studio is, where to download it, the printers it supports, how it differs from Qidi Print and from OrcaSlicer, and how it fits into a print farm.

What Qidi Studio is

Qidi Studio is the slicer Qidi develops and ships for its modern CoreXY printers. It provides factory machine and filament profiles, integrated network printing and monitoring, and the calibration and per-object tooling that come with its Bambu Studio lineage. For any recent Qidi machine, it is the path of least resistance to a tuned print.

The name confusion: Qidi Studio vs Qidi Print

Two Qidi products get conflated, the same way they do for other brands:

1. Qidi Print is the older slicer, a fork of UltiMaker Cura. It is what earlier Qidi printers shipped with, and it is where "Qidi uses Cura" comes from.
2. Qidi Studio is the current slicer, a fork of Bambu Studio (which descends from PrusaSlicer and Slic3r). It is the actively developed product for the current lineup.

So "Qidi Slicer" almost always means Qidi Studio today. If you are following an old tutorial that talks about Qidi Print's Cura interface, it does not match the current software.

Download Qidi Studio

Use an official source and avoid third-party mirrors, which lag behind and can repackage the installer:

• Qidi's website (qidi3d.com), on the support or download page.
• QIDITECH GitHub releases, for versioned builds and release notes.

Windows and macOS are the primary platforms, with Linux availability depending on the release. If you run Linux, the GitHub releases page is the more reliable source.

Supported printers

Qidi Studio ships profiles for Qidi's current generation, including:

• Qidi Q1 Pro
• Qidi Plus4
• Qidi X-Max 3
• Qidi X-Plus 3
• Qidi X-Smart 3

Older Qidi machines were served by Qidi Print. If a current printer profile is missing from your installed build, check the GitHub releases and the official download page, since profile coverage often moves faster than the docs.

How it differs from OrcaSlicer and Bambu Studio

Under the hood, Qidi Studio is a Bambu Studio fork, and OrcaSlicer is also a Bambu Studio fork, so the three share an interface, a calibration suite, and the 3MF project format. What Qidi adds is the hardware glue: tuned profiles for its machines, its connectivity, and machine-specific behavior. As with any vendor fork, it can lag upstream on features and fixes, since Qidi maintains its own branch.

If you already know OrcaSlicer or Bambu Studio, you already know how to drive Qidi Studio. Most OrcaSlicer-family knowledge, including the forks comparison, transfers directly.

Running Qidi printers in a farm

Qidi Studio is built around one operator preparing prints on one or a few machines. Across a rack of Q1 Pro or Plus4 units, slicing each job by hand and tracking which file went to which printer does not scale. Qidi's current machines run Klipper, and a farm needs slicing and routing to be automatic and consistent rather than per-desktop.

That is the gap cloud slicing closes. Because Qidi Studio sits in the Bambu Studio and OrcaSlicer family, the same cloud slicing workflow applies: profiles live in one place and every job is sliced the same way regardless of which workstation queued it. If you are designing the operation, our guides on print farm slicing and how to set up a 3D print farm cover the moving parts.

Printago and Qidi printers

Qidi's current printers are Klipper-based, and Printago manages Klipper machines as first-class printers in the fleet: live status, automatic job routing, cloud slicing, and real-time progress, all from one set of managed profiles instead of a per-workstation setup. Printago is brand-agnostic, so a Qidi machine can share a queue with a Bambu Lab P1S or a Creality K1, each routed to the work it can handle. Our printer compatibility page has the current list if you are planning a mixed fleet.