bitouns
January 27, 2015, 7:05pm
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Maybe because your marlin acceleration(if it’s a reprap) is lot highter than your setting in slic3r …
Eric_7
January 27, 2015, 7:27pm
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I’ve used Cura winc 14.1 and it’s pretty good. I do miss the manual temp controls of Pronterface. but all in all Cura prints really well. I have found another issure though that sometimes it makes a gcode that has gaps in it, or offsets. it’s just once in a while, but it is annoying. Mainly if they had the Temp controls easier to manage I’d be really happy. You can use pronterface with it, but it’s not as easy as with slicr. I do like how well it prints and the on the fly changes. oh, my Cura crashes out whenever I try to pause a print. It’d be nice if someone would write a nice resume function, such as manually control, lift from deck, to hight, then position at a point in the model and manually on your print, then hit go and it calibrates, then resumes from that set point in the G code. That would be awesome. to bad I suck at programming.
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Thanks, elmuchado. That is exactly the tips I am looking after. Will try it out this weekend.
Roberto
January 27, 2015, 8:11pm
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I use Cura for two+ years, and it is great for those who starting with 3D print. Simple and easy to use, but missing some features or optimized in the way to become quick. I would like to have option for various infills geometry. Current orthogonal infill is good for some but not for all prints. I use it with Ultimaker but also with RepRap’s, but also use other opensource software as well.
JakG
January 27, 2015, 8:26pm
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Thanks for the info. I will give Cura a go.
Printed two Marvins, one in 100 micron in Cura and 200 micron in Slicer. I couldn’t go lower in slicer because the oozing of filament. Look at marvins helmet, cura on the right creates a sharp line while slicer on the left has a droop. Also the key chain loop is a bit cleaner with Cura. I also download Kisslicer which is free and will repeat the test with three Marvins in same resolution and apply a few hints from below. Also try to get the same settings like acceleration and cooling across all three slicers. Ps will add a macro photo at work today because the ipad takes bad pics.
The Cura source code is available on github. So it should be possible to add the temperature controls into the front end. I will have a look at it and see if i can crack this nut.
datmos
January 28, 2015, 10:52am
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as many of us i tried almost all 3d printing software. Works really well with my Witbox but is missing one super important point: more control over the support structures. Sometimes i don’t need a support on a part of the print, but i can’t select that support and delete it… If they introduce this feature to Cura, will be the best software for me.
Go job to Ultimaker with this Software!
Filemon
January 28, 2015, 12:43pm
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Very interesting experiment this is
Amazingly Cura does have a temperature controls like Pronterface! They are just hidden under file, preferences, select interface “Pronterface” see attached picture.
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Shron
January 29, 2015, 11:20am
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I do not agree with your last point. When you’re saving a model in Cura it will be saved as a STL file when you put .stl at the end. If you don’t add .stl it will be saved as an AMF file.
Now you can delete the last point from your “Annoy List”
Thx that’s true I should have try that but wrongly assumed the proprietary extension was associated with a propriatory encoding. But why not offering the options in the user interface instead of hiding it for the end user to find it by chance or by try and error.
I should also says that Slic3r do have this functionality as Export STL button on the GUI. Sorry if you felt offended but this is not an “Annoy list” The comment clearly stated few missing feature and not things that a re missing that I’m bothered by.
Cura3D can export gcode for use it in a SD card directly on the printer, I have not found this option in MatterControl?
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point: Ability to set different temperature between first layer
and you can add more plugin like Skip infill that print external layer to hires anhd infill to 250
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Shron
January 29, 2015, 11:55am
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Don’t get me wrong, i’m not offended at all! It is because you said “I must miss some things that annoy me” why i chose to put it that way
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Nice thx Christian for pointing this out. I’ve used “Pause at height” before but never investigated the other plugin.
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Yes true, I rarely use the feature though as all my printer are networked with OctoPI and usually save the gcode in a specific location to be loaded onto the printer through the network.
I will not says MatterControl is the way to go instead of cura not at all but found it convenient to be able to switch between slicer engine with the added consistency of the same GUI independently of the slicer engine used. But that doesn’t change the facts that you have to learn what each slicer engine support to set accurately.
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