Daid

My work is meaningless without you guys. Cura was born on the forums. And while lately I've been very busy which gave me little time to check the forums. I do see the forums as very dearly to me. I've always said that I will take a stand for the people, the community. We build something together. I'll keep you guys updated. Thanks for the support. I stirred things up quite a bit (mission accomplish there ). Naturally everyone is already busy with other stuff. It's not like everyone can drop what they are doing.

And so it starts. Just go an email from high up asking me not to reply on the forum anymore. I'm not backing down. I think you guys are too important for this. I'll keep you updated.

Public communication simply has higher impact. I'll most likely get called in by management for posting that (would not be the first time) Reasons for making a post like that: 1) Nobody in is right minds makes a 100% custom forum. See the amount of bugs and lack of features? That's why. It's a waste of money really. 2) You have one of the top users of the forums sitting in your office, and you don't even talk to him about your forum change plans. Cura is pretty much born on the forums. I've pretty much lived on forums for a big part of my life. This is not a forum, this is a forums retarded little brother. 3) Communications from R&D to the people who handle communications have been pretty much ignored or misinterpreted. Even when told in the face and emailed. 4) There has been a Cura PinkUnicorn limited beta planned to release on monday. I have NO clue on how we're going to get feedback on that. Normally we handled testing with a hidden subforum. 5) The layout is horrible for information density. 6) Essential features are missing. 7) Bugs everywhere. 8) It's not a "people resist change" issue. Yes, people resist change. I know all about that (see removal of slice button). It's a "we had something that was quite decent, and it's being replaced by something that can only be properly described as a piece of total shit." 9) I'm fed up with this shit. 10) Do not taunt the happy fun rock. Now, most likely I will get some silly promise that they will fix the bugs. Fix the layout. Add the features. But, I'm a software developer. I will tell you it will take a year to get this really sorted out. So I say: Close this shit. Put in normal forum software which we all know that works. Any effort put in here is a waste of money and effort. Effort and money that could be put into other areas. I also ask you all. Do not hold back, do not bite your lip. Tell what you really think! Remember that the forum is there for you, you are not there for the forum.

Doesn't like? DOES NOT LIKE? Who ever approved this layout for a forum needs to be shot. Really. Information density is important. Right now the information density is as low as fuck. Whoever made and approved this layout does not know anything about forums, and most likely never used a forum before. First Page: https://ultimaker.com/en/community Should look (at minimal) like this: http://i.imgur.com/IC1fqsx.png Less subfora. Less crap. Higher information density. Links visible as links (yes, those grey sections where links already!) The right area still needs some use with latest post info. A subfora view should look more like this: http://i.imgur.com/7dHFnb4.png Instead of the "everything is white" like this: https://ultimaker.com/en/community/general/general-discussion And then I'm not even talking about the bugs and usability problems. The new post dialog is also crap, it's smaller then everything else, giving you the lowest information density on just about any part of the forum. I just typed a whole rant here. And I can see whooping 5 lines of it. EDIT: Holy shit, piece of crap does not even convert links on it's own. Sorry, you'll have to copy paste those links yourself.

You might want to check out my thread code for this old design: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:24253 I'm using a different method then what I see in the screenshots above, which should help with slicing. As I see many slicing artifacts as well. And as you can see, I printed the thread just fine on my old UMO.

Cura's X-Ray view will most likely help you idenfiying the issue as well.

I'll see what I can do. But it's not a high priority for me. Do you know if the G92 works? Because if that works I could just reset the extrusion on every extruder change and I will not have an issue.

You are wrong. I only changed the positioning. Something I noticed when I added the 3D models of the clips (the Cura 3D model is from the CAD model of the printer)

Embarrassing as it is. Yes, the bill wasn't payed. The server was hired when Ultimaker was much smaller, the payment was with CC, the CC expired a month ago, the warning mails that payment could not be made went to the wrong (no longer used) inbox. So nobody noticed until the provider pull the plug. Totally understandable from their side. Small oops, all fixed now. We had a few of these the last month as I understood, as the CC had more stuff connected to it then we knew. All small amounts, few dollars here, few there. (The one I noticed was our github payment, which was solved before any service was disconnected). Naturally we're setting up better email addresses for this now.

Cura should boot fine without the server being there, there is a timeout on it, and all exceptions are silently ignored.

How does the model look in X-Ray view?

This indeed is an intentional change. As it improved the quality of the high/ulti quality profiles. What layer thickness are you printing at? (just to see if the seen effects are related to this) I already merged patches to make this configurable.

Problem is that it gives tons of extra places where this can go wrong. (Especially in the current codebase) Yes and no. I simply initially made Cura for myself. As I wanted to print with less effort (going from model to print was quite difficult back then). I always have hobby projects, right now, I'm building an "space ship bridge simulator" for example.

Indeed, the problem is in the wxPython toolkit, which is at the code of the current Cura. One of the goals of the rewrite was to change the toolkit to QT, which does not have these kinds of odd issues.

Pretty sure you're using different infill rates just seeing from those pictures.

Rocket science is quite easy. DeltaV calculations and orbital maneuvers are not that hard to calculate. And you do know that I worked on this project from Dec 2011 to Sep 2012 without getting any pay for it?

I'm sorry, but the UFIDS doesn't fit on all the current generation materials, and it won't do for the next generation. (Note, UFIDS is prior art for that patent, so that whole patent is just wasted money from makerbot)

Every month for the past 3 years

Shorter belts and axis mean less springiness, which could, in theory, increase the print quality. However, I did not see a difference in actual prints. About the size, the UM2go is already available as option in Cura, so you can see the full print size in there.

I've changed the number of decimals to 3 for the next version.

It's rare that a firmware upgrade will ask you for the bed leveling. If it does, it's for a reason. With most upgrades it should not happen, but between some versions it will happen because the way settings where stored contained a bug. (And it if lost the setting, then it needs to ask this of you again, as it lost the proper height setting)

Just thought up an anternative way without modifiying Cura code. Cura also looks in: C:program files (x86)Cura_[any_version] For the preferences and current_profile ini files. So if you place files there, it will get copied as default for all users.

FYI, The UM2 uses PT100s, which is a godsend compared to the older methods.

The location where the settings are stored is defined in this piece of code: https://github.com/daid/Cura/blob/SteamEngine/Cura/util/profile.py#L639 You could modify that file for your local install if you really wanted, and always have it point to the same location. Then all users will share the same config.

Instead of a cardboard box, you might want to use something that's less likely to catch fire...