Why don't you use Cura slicer?
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Is manual support placement a front end only problem to solve with Cura? I mean does the front end determine where the support should be so it can be modified to ask for support to be elsewhere as the user requires? If so then it seams like a specific job for a developer that could be packaged up and opened to the community for funding to have it implemented?
As far as I am aware, support generation in the slicer (backend) is controlled by volumes (they call them meshes) that define the regions that are to contain support. It is already possible in the front end to define meshes that either specify where support should be added (and it wasn't added automatically) or regions where support should not be added. So, in a rather clunky fashion it is already possible to manually define where the support is to be generated. Assuming that basic functionality stays, the problem then boils down to having some GUI capability for the user to be able to easily add/subtract support (like s3d's pillars o'shite which you can create/remove). I think the majority of the work that needs to be done to have manual support is in the front end.
Incidentally, I shall be meeting some of the Cura devs later this month so I shall be sure to quiz them as to how the manual support capability is coming along.
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I would like semi-auto support removal. I would like the UI to let me choose to start from fully generated support and I selectively remove, or start from no support and I selectively add. You need both, as we know it all depends on the model and your printer!
In reference to the crashes under linux, I'd say that in my experience it's the python libs that cause the problems. For example, I try add a config for a dual nozzle printer and bang - 2.7 just dies. Works fine for single nozzle configs. I mean really? Adding a dual nozzle config causes it to crash? That is pretty bonkers.
I try to use the PPA Master variants if I can, but I generally can't as they crash a lot. Latest PPA Master (3.2) for example crashed without starting the UI on Ubuntu LTS! Personally I don't upgrade LTS systems until Ubuntu tell me to. And it generally works really well.
I file my bug reports when I can, I have become accustomed to Cura and like it. I have no real issues with the slicing quality. The bridging could be better, but I'd really far rather have manual support removal!
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Incidentally, I shall be meeting some of the Cura devs later this month so I shall be sure to quiz them as to how the manual support capability is coming along.
Thanks, will be interesting to see what they say!
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I just published a new Cura-DuetRRF plugin version to fix an incompatibility with Cura 3.2:
https://github.com/Kriechi/Cura-DuetRRFPlugin/releases/tag/v0.0.5This plugin allows you to directly upload a g-code file to a DuetWifi/DuetEthernet/and older Duets and start the print.
You can even "just upload", "upload & print", or "upload & simulate" - all from within Cura.
https://github.com/Kriechi/Cura-DuetRRFPlugin -
resam, thanks for the hard work!!! Just FYI it crashes on Cura 3.2.1. It happens on print or simulate.
Is it possible to make this plugin work for the monitor screen and allow movement and temp changes?
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meh - I can't keep up with Cura releases
I'll take a look in the next days…
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Since I just butted my head against it here is stupid, trivial UI suggestion; a way to 'clone' a printer definition.
At the moment the only way is to add a New printer via the wizard/dialog, but I wanted to make a new config for my machine while it is (temporarily) wearing a much bigger nozzle.
I did it by following the dialog, then copy + pasting start/stop gcodes from the old config, and it was rather tedious. [Maybe I culd have hacked it more easily directly in the config but I wasnt in the mood]. It was trivial to do this in slic3r, so I was a bit narked when the same operation in Cura turned into a 'open,copy,close,open new,paste,close,open old,copy next' session
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Thanks resam! I was somehow using an old version. Updated to 0.0.6 and I will try later. I'm looking forward to trying out Cura again
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Since I just butted my head against it here is stupid, trivial UI suggestion; a way to 'clone' a printer definition.
At the moment the only way is to add a New printer via the wizard/dialog, but I wanted to make a new config for my machine while it is (temporarily) wearing a much bigger nozzle.
I did it by following the dialog, then copy + pasting start/stop gcodes from the old config, and it was rather tedious. [Maybe I culd have hacked it more easily directly in the config but I wasnt in the mood]. It was trivial to do this in slic3r, so I was a bit narked when the same operation in Cura turned into a 'open,copy,close,open new,paste,close,open old,copy next' session+1 for this
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Where is the setting in Cura to use a higher temperature for the first layer? I couldn't find it when I sliced a model today and ended up changing the temperature manually.
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Material : Printing Temperature Initial Layer on 3.2
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Slighty off topic as I am giving Cura slicer a try, Just started using version (3.2.1) and found I'm having this issue outlined in the image below.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure this is a problem generated by Cura.
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Not sure what's wrong there, could you please post a link to the gcode so I can investigate.
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Not sure what's wrong there, could you please post a link to the gcode so I can investigate.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ziml3INWFtu665eZGyqOi_tRXTQ8ulAn/view?usp=sharing
I should have added that everything was working fine in the print status window until I updated to 1.21RC2 firmware then subsequently to RC3. It doesn't help that at this same time I switched to Cura from S3D and have not yet tried S3D on the new firmware to see if it displays the same issue. At the end of this current 15 hour print I'm on I'll switch to S3D and see what happens. Everything was fine before I upgraded firmware and started using Cura.
The only possible thing that tipped me to blame Cura was a thread (cant remember which one) where others were having the same problem where the DWC print settings wouldn't update for files sliced with cura.
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Thanks for the file. Yes, there's a problem in there as it reports the filament used at the top of the file as zero. I don't know why that is right now but will investigate. I am using a later version of Cura and the filament used is correct so perhaps there was a bug and it has been fixed?
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Thanks for the file. Yes, there's a problem in there as it reports the filament used at the top of the file as zero. I don't know why that is right now but will investigate. I am using a later version of Cura and the filament used is correct so perhaps there was a bug and it has been fixed?
Interesting! I see that now as well and checked my other files generated by cura and the same 0m value is there for filament. Is there a later version than cura 3.2.1? When I look on their website it says 3.2.1 dated February 18 is the latest.
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Hi, tbahre, looking at the Cura code, it appears to only report the filament used by extruder 1 and so I'm guessing you have a dual extruder machine and have sliced for extruder 2 only. Is that true?
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@dc42, I can change the filament used comment in the gcode file to either report the total length (sum of all extruders) or as individual lengths, maybe like this example for two extruders:
; Filament used: 3.2m, 6.5m
i.e. just list the individual lengths separated by a comma (+ optional whitespace).
What do you think?
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Hi, tbahre, looking at the Cura code, it appears to only report the filament used by extruder 1 and so I'm guessing you have a dual extruder machine and have sliced for extruder 2 only. Is that true?
Yes this is right as I’m using a e3d chimera. I’ve told cura to use extruder 2 (tool 1) since that’s the extruder I’m using right now (physically it’s the right hand nozzle).
Extruder 1 (tool 0, left hand nozzle) is empty and I’m not printing with it right now.
