Any plans 'IP detect'
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Found the plugin for Cura and that works, can't discover the printer yet but can send stuff straight to it ... a small victory at least.
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@Garfield said in Any plans 'IP detect':
can't discover the printer yet
is it in the same subnet / broadcast domain?
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It is, has both IP and DNS entries (I run a DHCP and DNS server).
Cura doesn't find it, I don't install pronterface as don't use it, with the web access to the printer it is no biggy.
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@Garfield said in Any plans 'IP detect':
Cool, I'll dig some more, I'm going to try Cura and was just setting it all up. I like Prusa Slicer but they've messed up filament profiles for non prusa printers in the latest build, I'm through using Simplify.
I'm moving from them too and so far tried to move to craftware (best gcode preview), ideamaker, slic3r, prusa slicer and cura ... ideamaker is so far closest to what I can work with, I suggest you try it out
@chrishamm any special configuration required or printer name is all that's needed ?
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@arhi said in Any plans 'IP detect':
printer name
printer name or pi's hostname if using DSF (probably subject to change and discussion at length)
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Thanks for the tips - I've downloaded Ideamaker and will try it. To be honest Prusa Slicer if it weren't for the filament profiles ticks a lot of boxes now (I also have a Mk3s), I have yet to find a slicer that really nails bridging and overhangs well but there are so many pitfalls with those anyway it is hard to blame the slicer sometimes.
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@Garfield said in Any plans 'IP detect':
... a small victory at least.
Considering that printer configuration and IP are static but gcode code is not, it may even qualify as a medium victory.
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The way this week has gone so far you're not wrong ...
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@Garfield took me a while to try it out, I was looking at everything else but for some reason ignored IM .. The first use is weird, it's kinda different than what I was used to so maybe that .. but after second print I really started to dig it
.. anyhow really unrelated to this topic so.. ping if you need help with it 
I'm far from master (still turn back to s3d from time to time as it's faster - I know where everything is) but I can help with first steps (only thing that's fscked up with it is gcode preview if your origin is at center of bed) -
Delta / Kossel printer fanatic
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I will reach
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@Danal mind it still works great, you position your parts on the bed it apply the offsets and everything is good on print, just when you preview the gcode it "forgets" that origin is in center of the bed so all your gcode is rendered around lower left corner
... there is no offset for preview 
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@arhi said in Any plans 'IP detect':
@Danal mind it still works great, you position your parts on the bed it apply the offsets and everything is good on print, just when you preview the gcode it "forgets" that origin is in center of the bed so all your gcode is rendered around lower left corner
... there is no offset for preview Yeah, I can live with that. I will check it out. Although, I am liking SlicerPE more and more.
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@arhi said in Any plans 'IP detect':
craftware (best gcode preview), ideamaker, slic3r, prusa slicer and cura
what, no UP! Studio on the list????
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@bearer said in Any plans 'IP detect':
@arhi said in Any plans 'IP detect':
craftware (best gcode preview), ideamaker, slic3r, prusa slicer and cura
what, no UP! Studio on the list????
You know I have three TT printers, I kept one till recently with original electronics so I could use UP! Studio to print some of the spare parts if I need to but the thing is so unusable that I converted the last one too... It's similar to S3D used to be better then others but became obsolite and more they pushed changes more they dig themselves deeper
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What's that then ...
What I want is a slicer with half a brain that can handle bridging well, doesn't try to put the top on a round hole using circles (just plain dumb and guaranteed to fail - just bridge the darn thing. Infill that pays attention to part orientation not the orientation to the bed X,Y
Slicers could become a whole new thread
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@Garfield said in Any plans 'IP detect':
doesn't try to put the top on a round hole using circles
ah .. I'm yet to find that one
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@Garfield said in Any plans 'IP detect':
Slicers could become a whole new thread
pardon the OT; it was but a cheap joke - both the slicer and the post.
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No problem with OT, or jokes ... I can print the same part with 3 different slicers and the impact this has on the print quality / finish on the SAME printer is revealing. Slic3r and the Prusa offspring for instance put rubbish little dabs in places where a solid infil would make much more sense - added perimeters to overcome some of this nonsense. Simplify bridging is appalling, CURA lacks some finesse and is proving tricky to set up even using the same numbers from a successful profile in Slic3r ...
Could waffle all evening ... can already see a defect on the surface of a part that's printing - totally temperature related but if you get that bit correct the rest of the print suffers ....
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@Garfield If you're going to give Cura a try I would recommend this build maintained by one of the Cura contributors. He's implemented a lot of features and fixes that the stock Cura lacked. (Many are now part of Cura actually)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s43vqzmi4d2bqe2/AAADdYdSu9iwcKa0Knqgurm4a?dl=0&lst=
Cura is worth the effort if you're willing to go down the rabbit hole to explore and understand the many many options it has to tweak.
Also, for Prusa Slicer, the filaments thing can be worked around I think. The filaments tab is still all there for me. Maybe I'm grandfathered in.
