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The update is now officially available via the Marketplace. I have also edited the opening post with a note about version compatibility.

Please read the documentation of the plugin: https://github.com/fieldOfView/Cura-ZOffsetPlugin On an S5, the "Extensive Z Offset Processing" option must be checked, or you get exactly the issue you have. It is checked by default for Ultimaker printers that use the "Griffin" gcode flavor.

The Python environment that ships with Cura does not include OpenCV. Even if OpenCV is installed on the system, the "Cura Python" environment cannot access it. If you need to use OpenCV in a plugin, you would have to figure out s way to somehow ship OpenCV with your plugin.

It seems you have the Z-Offset plugin installed. If so, make sure the "Extensive Z Offset Processing" is checked, or set the Z Offset to 0.

Because of how they work, both the Sidebar GUI and the Tabbed Settings plugins need to be updated for every release of Cura, or they would break the interface. I submitted new versions of both plugins almost a month ago, but they still need to be approved by Ultimaker devs. I do not know what the holdup is. You can download a prerelease of the updated plugin from github: https://github.com/fieldOfView/Cura-TabbedSettingsPlugin/releases/tag/v1.0.4-DEV Download the .curapackage, and drag and drop the file onto the viewport in Cura as if you were loading a 3d model. Restart Cura and you should have a functional TabbedSettings plugin. On a tangent: here's the prerelease for Sidebar GUI: https://github.com/fieldOfView/Cura-SidebarGUIPlugin/releases/tag/v4.6.4-DEV

It may happen again if you drag Cura to the second monitor and then close it. To prevent that from happening, untick the "Restore window position on start" checkbox in the General preferences inside Cura.

Like I said, because of the motor shaft (length and/or shape). Hmm, strange. I would contact them and ask. An Ultimaker 2 with an upgraded extruder and hotend, for all intents and purposes, is an Ultimaker 2+. I am pretty sure many Ultimaker 2 users that already had an Ollson Block upgraded with a Bondtech extruder.

You could get the Bondtech extruder instead: https://www.bondtech.se/product/bondtech-ddg-v2-extruder/

It is done in the firmware. Because there is an added gear in the extruder, clockwise becomes anti-clockwise. The firmware instructs the motor to rotate in the other direction. As far as I remember, the reason to include a new stepper for the extruder was because how the gear attached to the motor shaft (and the length of the motor shaft).

@FBAone2, I don't have permissions to access those files.

The workaround is to log out, install the plugin(s) you need, and log back in.

Unfortunately I can't read Russian, so I don't know what the buttons say and why you think that the plugin is not activated. Not all plugins have a menu in the "Extensions" menu. The Linear Advance Settings plugin adds new settings in the "Custom" settings. Use the search field on top of the Custom settings to find the Enable Linear Advance setting. If there is no Enable Linear Advance setting, please post a link to your cura.log. Please DO NOT paste the whole thing in a replay but upload it somewhere and post a link.

I perceived no rudeness in your post. I hope you enjoy the plugin.

We're just going to have to keep dropping subtle hints.

Correct. For information about why this is, read this post: https://github.com/fieldOfView/Cura-TabbedSettingsPlugin/issues/10 A version of the plugin that is compatible with Cura 5.6 has been awaiting approval from Cura devs for a couple of weeks now (they must be busy). A prerelease can be downloaded and installed manually here: https://github.com/fieldOfView/Cura-TabbedSettingsPlugin/releases/tag/v1.0.4-DEV Download the .curapackage and drop it onto the buildplate in Cura as if you were loading a 3d model. The next version of the plugin that will be available in the Marketplace will show a different message than the "such and so plugin does not work, uninstall it!" message and will point to the releases page on github.

Not my area of expertise, sorry. @rburema knows a lot about conan.

Try logging out of your account. If you are an "Essentials" user, you only see plugins that are approved by Ultimaker.

You don't need a new account; just log out of your account, download the plugin(s) via the Marketplace, and log back in if you wish to do that.

Print the model larger, with a smaller nozzle, or try reducing the Line Width.

I guess you are talking about the replacement patterns in the start- and end-gcode snippets? You can specify the extruder like this: {line_width, 0} # linewidth of 1st extruder {line_width, 1} # linewidth of 2nd extruder {line_width, infill_extruder_nr} # linewidth of whichever extruder is used for the infill

Please try adding your printer to Cura again (Settings -> Printer -> Add printer...). Somehow it seems to have gotten misconfigured.

Still awaiting approval from the Ultimaker team...

The two messages are unrelated. The "there are no profiles matching the configuration of this extruder" can probably be fixed by clicking the Extruder icon in the top bar and changing its configuration. The "slicing failed with an unexpected error" is a Cura bug, and can often be remedied by moving the model to another location on the buildplate or rotating the model.

Could you post a link to one of your stl files that will not open? Then we can have a look to see if there is something wrong with the file.

Cura does not have functionality to export individual layers. An STL file is a 3d model. An individual layer is actually a 2d "thing". It has no real height or explicit linewidth; the height is only implied by the difference in the Z direction with the previous layer. and the linewidth is implied by how much material is extruded. It is trivial to extract a single layer from a gcode file, with a text-editor. This would give you all the coordinates of a 2d toolpath. You could then extrude that path by the layer height in the z-direction to get a 3d-like model, but this model will not have a linewidth, so loading it back in to Cura will not give you a result that can be sliced again. Perhaps you could share what you are trying to accomplish.