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A new version of the Mesh Tools plugin is now available in the Marketplace, which lets you set a unit for STL, OBJ and PLY files:

A new version of the Mesh Tools plugin is now available in the Marketplace, which lets you set a unit for STL, OBJ and PLY files:

You can't edit the default materials; they are "read-only". You have to make a new or copied material to edit settings in the material.

You can select a different material. Currently you have "Generic PLA" selected. Go to the "Materials" pane of the preferences and make a duplicate of Generic PLA, and change its display color there.

Better yet, close Cura before starting to manipulate the %APPDATA%\cura\4.8 folder.

What is the purpose of this post here? If you don't like the plugin, don't use it. @5axes has no obligations to you. Most spreadsheets I used present me with a dialog that lets me select the separator when I import a CSV file. And by "most", I mean all that I can remember using. The link to the rant you posted has no relation to this issue or this forum, so to me it only comes across as link-spam.

The good news is that there is no need to sign (or to have an account at all) in to access the marketplace.

Note quite though. They make all sorts of inexplicable changes to their Marlin-based firmware, requiring specific fixes: https://plugins.octoprint.org/plugins/ender3v2tempfix/ The thing is, the current functionality works as intended for Ultimaker Original printers.

Yes, I know there are release candidates (and I have even contributed a tiny fix last year so I know there is some activity), but the latest release from the pronterface website is still from 2014. So I can't help but wonder how many people are actively using Printrun/pronterface with things like Creality printers that have the type of - let's say - "creative" changes to the protocol that make USB printing "horrible". My latest attempt* to reboot USB printing as a contributed plugin was to use the Printrun core. One of the things that kept me from finishing was seeing how much it does not handle (eg temperature reporting instead of temperature polling), and thus realising that it may not even solve the problems the original USBPrinting functionality has. *: It is not very functional at the moment. I don't recommend using it.

Serious question: are any of them open source and still maintained and stable? I think the best way forward is to drop what Cura is trying to do and interface with an exiting known-good implementation as an external process. I have made a couple of "false starts" in that direction. It would have the benefit that if Cura stops or has a hickup, that would not necessarily interrupt the print. PrusaSlicer (and SuperSlicer) seem to have no support for USB printing (https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/issues/2046). PrintRun/PronterFace don't seem to have had a release since 2014. Does it still work with newer printers? I just found AtCore/Atelier but I don't know how mature it is. OctoPrint seems to be the only actively maintained and widely supporting open source printhost. But even there the "comm layer" has been worked on for multiple years without the results of the overhaul in sight.

That's a bit tricky and won't make it for the first official version. For now I have made them small, even if you zoom in (similar to how toolhandles of other tools stay the same size when you zoom in or out)

I would like this twice if I could.

A manual way of importing a .curaprofile is to unzip the file and placing the resulting 2 or more files in %APPDATA%\cura\4.8\user

To be honest I have no idea what CuraCLI is for and how to use it.

I'm working on a new plugin that adds a simple measuring aid to Cura: In its current incarnation, the tool lets you pick (and drag) two points and shows the distance between these points. A test-version can be downloaded here: MeasureTool Download the file and drop it onto the buildplate in Cura as if you were opening a 3d model. Then restart Cura as instructed. The plugin is now available in the Marketplace.

You would get a seam where the hotend jumps from one wall to the other (and back).

There should be no seam, no layer transition. A spiral changes Z continuously, instead of once per layer.

Say what?!

This is listed among the "known issues" here: https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/releases/tag/Arachne_engine_beta

Psst! Don't look now, but someone mirrored the Cura logo!

It is as simple as installing a plugin and checking a checkbox. It also potentially buys you quality improvements. The truth is it differs per printer type and firmware variant.

Can you elaborate? @herzla: There's a plugin named "ArcWelder" in the Marketplace, which will take the gcode as created by Cura from the tessellated model and will try to fit curves to multiple subsequent tessellated movements, replacing them by G2/G3 arcs. Your printer firmware will then re-tessellate those arcs to linear moves. So it would be a quite round-a-bout way to get curves to print. Perhaps that is why @gr5 recommends you not to use it.

That's what a "slicer" such as Cura is used for. First you extract the 3d model(s) from the zip file, and load them into the slicer. Then you tell the slicer how you want the model(s) to be printed, and the slicer creates a gcode file for you.

The next version of Mesh Tools will have a function to automatically scale all models that don't specify a unit, so if all the models you import are in imperial units, they will all be scaled to their proper sizes (in mm) on load.

The next version of the plugin will include a way to use the value set in the material even if the profile overrides it. Unfortunately I have no release date, nor do I have a test-version at this point.