Is anyone else having issues with Cura 5.6.0 inconsistently failing to slice? It will fail repeatedly and then suddenly succeed with the same parameters that it failed on before.
What's a good slicer (for #3Dprinting) that's easy to install in #alpinelinux stable (not edge)? (maybe I need to convince @anjan to move #Cura into community...)
Made a video about making models directly in #Cura , but still included sneaky peaks of #Inkscape and #FreeCAD in there ;)
It's nice for #3dPrinting Christmas decorations too. The one at the start of the video is a sphere half-sunk into the buildplate, no top or walls, 0.3mm infill lines and an overlapping tube to hang it on (ok, that one I actually modelled, in FreeCAD, of course).
oh my gods how long has cura had "zoom in mouse direction" and I've just never noticed?
(i mean really the question is rhetorical but also if you didn't know that was an option you could enable WELL IT IS)
and if you don't know what this is basically it lets you centre your view on anything, same as tinkercad, which means you can properly examine things at the edges of the build plate in ways you kinda can't otherwise.
Is it possible to install #gufw on #Fedora 38, because I’m REALLY tired of trying to figure out why #firewalld keeps ignoring anything I put into the “Trusted Zone?”
No, REALLY, I don’t want your help with firewalld. I’m never going to like it. I just want it gone.
@crankyoldbugger I decided to just hop to another distro. I like Fedora, but sometimes using it is frustrating. I could never get #Cura to run without crashing during the setup process, and I could never get the #Nextcloud client to stay running after waking from sleep. The issue with firewalld was the last straw.
I used to use #Simplify3D which has a relatively good interface and was mostly straightforward - but the company has a bad attitude and it lacked some essential features, it was then abandoned for years and the resurrected version is a paid upgrade for dubious benefit.
Then I switched to using the smartavionics fork of #cura, because it has speed and fan control for overhanging walls. But i dislike the cura interface, it is confusing and badly designed and profile management is a mess and the whole thing is clunky and unintuitive, and the interface is slow.
so I'm looking for alternatives.
I'm looking for:
*clear interface and good preview
good profile management and easy transfer of profile files and printer definitions to other systems
works on mac and linux (and pref win too but less critical)
sophisticated features for difficult prints such as fan and speed control for overhanging walls, good settings for bridging, well designed supports, 3D infill patterns and so on.
Anyone else knowing the problem of #Cura (or #Blender) being wrong about the size of an object by one decimal point after exporting to stl? #3dprinting
My recommendation would be to draw a square frame around the model at the base, that it is the furthest part from the middle. Then, in #Cura, you can scale it until the square is the correct size. Then, remove the square and print the model.
Anyone knowing the problem behind #Cura not properly reading the dimensions of an .stl file I made in #Blender? I have to scale it +100.000% to have it somewhat correct, but I need it exactly right. :/ #3Dprinting
#3Dprinting For some weird reason my #Cura stopped calculating the wall count, always printing just a single line and therefore flimsy, instantly collapsing walls. Anyone who knows this problem?
Also, does a wall line count of three mean it's 3 times to the layer height in thickness or how is it calculated? I think manually inputting that wild instead of the one above it still works properly.
#Cura was great when I got my printer. It is very easy and user-friendly. You choose the "detail" setting which ditectly transaltes to your layer height and it does everything for you. For my first 2 years, I didn't change anything in the settings.
Buy I then switched to #PrusaSlicer and created my own profiles there. Now, it is my daily driver, and I enjoy it more than Cura for advance settings and adding and changing #Gcode.