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Any advice? :slight_smile:

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Hi, I’d like to know how to use cura directly from my website. Any idea?

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I Would like to add the slicer function to my website but I am not sure how to proceed without making it to slow. Any suggestion? Thanks!

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Cura and CuraEngine are in fact developed separately. CuraEngine is the (fast) c++ implementation of the slicing engine whereas Cura is the python frontend. The two are tied together quite tightly but it is certainly possible to use curaengine without the frontend. You can probably take a look at Octoprint which is a printer controller that is controlled via a webinterface and if I remeber correctly it can use CuraEngine as its slicer (although it is not the default)

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As Cura is a standalone software application I don’t think that is possible … or is it? You can only do that with web-based applications rather easy to. As you can see on my website : “driedeedesign.nl/3d-tekenen” It does not work perfectly with my.SketchUp but it works fine with the web-based slicer “grid.space/kiriyet”…

I used the iFramely ( iframely.com) plugin in wordpress to add my.sketchup.com and grid.space/kiri on the page using the following shortcode:

on the dots you fill in the URL of the web based application like : https://grid.space/kiri or https://my.sketchup.com/appor https://labs.sketchfab.com/sculptfab/ …

Hope this is of any help …

gr. Frank

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That would be cool … :slight_smile:

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I cannot tell you how to do it, but I can tell you it can be done. Cura is what 3dhubs uses to calculate print volume when someone uploads a model to a hub.

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Thanks Themba. So, who do you suggest I should ask for some help? A c++ guy should know better (than me, lol) how to do it?

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You won’t need a c++ guy unless you want to change the slicer. CuraEngine is an executable that can be called from any other program. (does require execution rights so if you ar talking about some shared hosting website this won’t work). For inspiration I’d suggest looking at GitHub - OctoPrint/OctoPrint: OctoPrint is the snappy web interface for your 3D printer! which is web-based and provides integration of CuraEngine if I remember correctly…

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Thanks sooo much for your time and your feedback. Yep, the idea is to add to my website an online slicer. Now I wonder whether it would be easy to integrate OctoPrint + CuraEngine Api. I still have no idea where/how to find someone who could help me: GitHub? freelancer?