Cura Type A
- antiklesys
- Reactions:
- Posts: 183
- Joined: February 13th, 2016, 8:01 am
- 3D Printer(s): UMO
Re: Cura Type A
Hi Meduza,
Before doing any live test, have you switched the settings to match your Cura's settings?
That may cause issues otherwise.
Also for saving the start/end gcode there's a big button at the top
Before doing any live test, have you switched the settings to match your Cura's settings?
That may cause issues otherwise.
Also for saving the start/end gcode there's a big button at the top
Re: Cura Type A
I have seen this type of infill in a university paper some time ago, maybe a year. I tried to find it again but had no luck so far.
- Dim3nsioneer
- Reactions:
- Posts: 221
- Joined: February 19th, 2016, 2:13 pm
- Location: Zurich Area, Switzerland
- 3D Printer(s): Ultimaker Original, 2, 2+, 2 Ext+, 3, S5, Form 2
- Contact:
Re: Cura Type A
So, there are now five different Cura?
Ultimaker Legacy Cura 15.04.6
Ultimaker Cura 2.1.2
Cura LulzBot Edition
Type A Cura
BCN3D Cura
Where does this lead to?
btw: What's the plural of Cura: Curas, Curae, Cure, ...?
Ultimaker Legacy Cura 15.04.6
Ultimaker Cura 2.1.2
Cura LulzBot Edition
Type A Cura
BCN3D Cura
Where does this lead to?
btw: What's the plural of Cura: Curas, Curae, Cure, ...?
- Meduza
- Reactions:
- Posts: 289
- Joined: February 10th, 2016, 8:08 pm
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- 3D Printer(s): UM2+, UM3 (F2, UM2EX+ UM3EX, etc at work)
- Contact:
Re: Cura Type A
The problem was not that i could not save, it was that i could not edit it at all, but i realized why, i had already choosen UltiGcode as the gCode Flavor, which in turn removes the Start/End gcode tab entirely, but it was still applied to the code...antiklesys wrote:Also for saving the start/end gcode there's a big button at the top
I have not used custom start/end gcodes in years, since about the time that UM2 was released, so i thought that it was Type A machines that had disabled the editing of Start/end gcodes
Yep, done that and copied every setting.antiklesys wrote:Before doing any live test, have you switched the settings to match your Cura's settings?
Six, you forgot the "Cura Wanhao edition" for the Wanhao printers.Dim3nsioneer wrote:So, there are now five different Cura?
- drayson
- Reactions:
- Posts: 254
- Joined: February 15th, 2016, 5:04 am
- Location: Graz, Austria
- 3D Printer(s): UMO with mods :-)
Re: Cura Type A
yes, that not more than 4-5 settings, but it´s a great option to link them to the material instead of changing it manually each time you change material. b.t.w. - I created a small excel sheet to support the .cfg-file creation - already posted it here in the forum for your convenienceLePaul wrote:I haven't tried the new Cura...I've opted to play it safe with what I know works for me....but can the new one allow a user to save profiles for different filaments? Yes, that's usually 4 or 5 setting changes, but it would be really handy.nallath wrote:I think their material profiles only change 3-4 settings. Looks like a lot, but isn't really. Lulzbot also has a fuckton of profiles.
I've sent this to our engine guy, so he can have a look how easy it is to back port the 3d infill into our Cura.
Re: Cura Type A
This is one of the reasons why we started Cura 2.x. The old cura is really difficult to fork, change layout and then still push changes back into main (due to hard-coded layout stuff). New Cura does not suffer from this. It even has theme files, so it should be pretty easy to create a new look & feel without changing anything in the code (We're still toying with the idea to make a "dark" Cura theme, for those of you that use Cura in dark rooms so you won't be blasted with all white gui stuffs).Dim3nsioneer wrote:So, there are now five different Cura?
Where does this lead to?
It's also so much easier to change what machines should be in a "distro" of Cura.
As Cura is a name, I'd say it be CurasDim3nsioneer wrote: btw: What's the plural of Cura: Curas, Curae, Cure, ...?
Re: Cura Type A
Yes. The 2.2 version even improves on this; That even allows you to use functions for settings. So instead of saying that for PLA the infill speed is 50, you can say that for PLA the infill speed needs to be half of the print speed.LePaul wrote: I haven't tried the new Cura...I've opted to play it safe with what I know works for me....but can the new one allow a user to save profiles for different filaments? Yes, that's usually 4 or 5 setting changes, but it would be really handy.
You can also define material profiles that only work with a given machine.
- Meduza
- Reactions:
- Posts: 289
- Joined: February 10th, 2016, 8:08 pm
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- 3D Printer(s): UM2+, UM3 (F2, UM2EX+ UM3EX, etc at work)
- Contact:
Re: Cura Type A
That sounds good, it should be as easy as possible for other manufacturers to help with the development of Cura, and they should be encouraged to do so, both Lulzbot and Type A Machines could easily hire a full time developer to support the Cura developmentnallath wrote:The old cura is really difficult to fork, change layout and then still push changes back into main (due to hard-coded layout stuff). New Cura does not suffer from this. It even has theme files, so it should be pretty easy to create a new look & feel without changing anything in the code
I do like this, but at the same time i am a little annoyed since Cura for me is about being open, and making it harder to add other printer than <insert brand> that has branded the software kind of breaks this openness.nallath wrote:It's also so much easier to change what machines should be in a "distro" of Cura.
As a compromise, would it be a reasonable idea to add a "import printer profile" button to the "Add Machine Wizard" to make it easier to import custom printer profiles? With the idea of that the printer profile you import gets permanently added to the Wizard under the section "Other"?
Re: Cura Type A
What profile would it import then? A JSON file? That would only save you the "trouble" of copying the json file by hand.Meduza wrote: As a compromise, would it be a reasonable idea to add a "import printer profile" button to the "Add Machine Wizard" to make it easier to import custom printer profiles? With the idea of that the printer profile you import gets permanently added to the Wizard under the section "Other"?
- Meduza
- Reactions:
- Posts: 289
- Joined: February 10th, 2016, 8:08 pm
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- 3D Printer(s): UM2+, UM3 (F2, UM2EX+ UM3EX, etc at work)
- Contact:
Re: Cura Type A
A json file would be fine, it would just be a more user friendly way to do it, to show that the software is ment to be used with different printers, many users are uncomfortable with changing stuff in software directories, and some times they are not even allowed to do so because of policys of their company / school
Another possibility would be a .zip file that also could contain a custom buildplate 3d model etc
Another possibility would be a .zip file that also could contain a custom buildplate 3d model etc
Re: Cura Type A
That would be pretty easy to do actually. I'll add it to our tracker.Meduza wrote:A json file would be fine, it would just be a more user friendly way to do it, to show that the software is ment to be used with different printers, many users are uncomfortable with changing stuff in software directories, and some times they are not even allowed to do so because of policys of their company / school
Another possibility would be a .zip file that also could contain a custom buildplate 3d model etc
- Amedee
- Reactions:
- Posts: 599
- Joined: February 15th, 2016, 11:10 am
- Location: Brussels, Belgium
- 3D Printer(s): UMO / UMO+
- Contact:
Re: Cura Type A
You can also have machines in your 'user directory', which is nice because they stay when you upgrade.
(well that's the theory, as there is an inheritance bug in the latest beta -- need to check if it fixed in 2.1.2, otherwise I'll file a bug... )
(well that's the theory, as there is an inheritance bug in the latest beta -- need to check if it fixed in 2.1.2, otherwise I'll file a bug... )
- Meduza
- Reactions:
- Posts: 289
- Joined: February 10th, 2016, 8:08 pm
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- 3D Printer(s): UM2+, UM3 (F2, UM2EX+ UM3EX, etc at work)
- Contact:
Re: Cura Type A
Some weird layer shifting is definatly going on in the 3d infill, look at the back of the robot:
- Titus
- Reactions:
- Posts: 252
- Joined: February 9th, 2016, 10:20 pm
- 3D Printer(s): Ultimaker Original+HBK
Re: Cura Type A
Join the Dark Side!nallath wrote: We're still toying with the idea to make a "dark" Cura theme, for those of you that use Cura in dark rooms so you won't be blasted with all white gui stuffs).
btw: What's the plural of Cura: Curas, Curae, Cure, ...?
I wonder how you guys came up with the name though. Looking at the noun cura in Latin, its plural would be curae: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cura#Latinnallath wrote: As Cura is a name, I'd say it be Curas
- antiklesys
- Reactions:
- Posts: 183
- Joined: February 13th, 2016, 8:01 am
- 3D Printer(s): UMO
Re: Cura Type A
Yes, that is really weird.Meduza wrote:Some weird layer shifting is definatly going on in the 3d infill, look at the back of the robot:
20160617_200725.jpg
I don't have that issue at all...