How to Export and Import Settings in OrcaSlicer

OrcaSlicer settings export and import through File > Export and File > Import. Once you have a profile dialed in, you should not re-create it on a second machine or lose it when you reinstall. This guide covers exporting your presets, importing them (including .ini profiles from other slicers), and where the files live on disk.

What "settings" means in OrcaSlicer

OrcaSlicer stores configuration as three kinds of preset:

• Process presets: layer height, speed, supports, infill, and the rest of the print settings.
• Printer presets: the machine definition, including nozzle diameter and bed shape.
• Filament presets: material settings, including temperatures and flow.

Exporting and importing works on these presets, individually or bundled together.

Export your settings

Use File > Export > Export Preset Bundle. You get a list of your presets with checkboxes; tick the process, printer, and filament presets you want and OrcaSlicer writes them to a single bundle file. That file is what you move to another computer or share with a teammate.

To export a single process preset on its own (a common request, since people often want to share just one tuned print profile), select that preset in the process dropdown first, then export. The bundle will contain only what you selected.

Import settings and .ini profiles

Use File > Import > Import Configs. This one item handles both: a preset bundle you exported from another OrcaSlicer install, and individual config files, including PrusaSlicer and SuperSlicer style .ini profiles. Point it at the file and the presets appear in your lists. (There is no separate "Import Preset Bundle" menu item; Import Configs covers bundles and .ini configs alike.)

Because OrcaSlicer shares lineage with PrusaSlicer (see OrcaSlicer forks compared for the family tree), .ini configs from that side of the family import cleanly in most cases.

Where the profiles live

If you would rather copy files directly, OrcaSlicer keeps its configuration here:

• Windows: %APPDATA%/OrcaSlicer
• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/OrcaSlicer
• Linux: ~/.config/OrcaSlicer

Your custom presets are in the user subfolder. Copying that folder to another machine migrates the whole setup, which is handy for backups or a clean reinstall.

Why this matters for a print farm

Export and import is the manual version of a problem that gets painful fast at scale: keeping every machine on the same dialed-in profiles. Doing it by hand means exporting bundles, copying them around, and hoping no printer drifts out of sync. A print farm needs one source of truth instead.

That is exactly what Printago does. Printago runs OrcaSlicer as a cloud slicing engine and imports your existing OrcaSlicer profiles directly, so the bundle you just exported can be brought straight into the cloud slicer instead of rebuilt. It keeps those profiles centrally and applies the one you tuned automatically on every printer in the queue, with no bundles to shuffle between machines. If you are building out a farm, how to set up a 3D print farm and print farm slicing cover the rest, and the OrcaSlicer CLI reference goes deep on automating the engine itself.