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How do you open files in Cura? In Cura, there's the File -> Open... menu and a folder icon (top left on the Prepare tab) that will let you open/add files to the build plate. You can also drag and drop models into the Cura window. If you double-click a model or drop the model on the Cura icon, a new window of Cura will likely open. The next version of Cura will have a preference not to do that.

The only difference is that the Deltabot definition did not let you use more than 1 extruder.

In order for there to be overlap, you must load multiple models into CuraEngine. I am not 100% certain the commandline interface supports that. You could try > curaengine -l mainobject.stl -s <setting>=<value> ... -l overlapping.stl -s cutting_mesh=true -s <setting>=<value>

Use Custom FFF printer instead, setting the Build Plate Shape to Elliptic and the tick the Origin at Center box. This is functionally equivalent to using the Deltabot definition, except that now you have the option to use multiple extruders.

I fixed the old comment. I am very sorry that happened to you. I am also surprised there are still printers around that you can set on fire this easily via gcode.

Ok, I don’t have an UM3, and you are asking for something I cannot provide. So there is nothing I can do for you then.

Equal wear of the buildplate surface, I guess?

Can you try this development snapshot? Download the file and drop it onto the Cura buildplate as if you are opening a 3d model. After restarting Cura, right-clicking a model and selecting Mesh Tools -> Randomise location will move the model to a random position on the build plate.

Hey, you are asking the community, so you get a community-answer... The community cannot fix the firmware for you.

I realize you probably want this issue fixed instead of a workaround, but if Wifi seems to be the cause of the problem and you can't run wires, then you might try using a simple access point to do the wifi-ing and connect a short ethernet cable between the access point and the printer.

Some people would say you built an old computer.

I can add an option to randomize model placement to a future release of MeshTools. It may not take into account things like bed clips or circular buildplates though.

I am sorry; without seeing some code, and knowing exactly what files you copied where, there is no way for me to reproduce what you did or find out how to fix the issue.

Then feel free not to use it. I said plugins can hook in to the dialog you are trying to use. The plugin you downloaded doesn't. The intended workflow with this plugin is you first add your printer as a "local", non networked printer, and then add the network connection via Extensions -> DuetRRF -> DuetRRF Connections.

I was asking about using a powered hub since that would work as a sort of "buffer" for any electrical cause of your printer shutting down your PC. But like I said, on a decent motherboard with a decent USB controller, even shortcircuiting the USB port should not shut down the PC, but instead disable the USB port until you reset it in Windows. It could also be a matter of a bad driver that crashes your PC.

What sort of PC are we talking about? Unless your computer itself is relying on USB power (eg a Raspberry Pi or another small board computer), even shorting out the + and - of the USB connector should not affect the PC much; there is an over-current protection in any decent USB controller. So there might be something else going on. Have you tried putting the printer on a powered USB hub instead of connecting it directly to your computer? Also, do you need to have your printer connected to your computer at all? USB printing from your PC is sort of overrated (and not well supported in Cura to begin with).

Theoretically, other printers types could be "hooked into" that dialog, but a plugin would need to be installed for that, and AFAIK, the "Duet RepRapFirmware Integration" you mentioned above does not yet support this dialog.

It is not as obvious as you might think. A setting such as infill pattern might not sound like it is one of those things that are not printer dependent. After all, it is just how it looks or works with the model, right? But some printers might eg not like gyroid because it makes the head move at a resonant frequency. Even for infill density it could be necessary to change that between differently configured printers eg because of material flow creating overextrusion or underextrusion at certain densities. It is also a question of making it obvious and predicatble to the user what settings would be carried over, and which are not. Not carrying over ANY settings at least makes that predictable.

In two words: you can't. Cura considers added printers as entirely independent from eachother. This includes all settings. For some (most?) people, this is very useful, because different printers will have very different configurations, where certain settings will work better than other settings. Cura does not "know" which settings are safe to copy between printers and which are not.

Now that we're talking categories, in the Create -> Topic -> Select Forum dropdown, the "Ultimaker Software" and "Ultimaker Online" are collapsed. Could they be expanded by default?

You could try right-clicking the model and "ungroup" it. You may have to do that multiple times, but eventually you will get rid of that wireframe "cage" around the model.

You are responding to a post that is ancient, in terms of 3d printing. Not much of what is said in this post applies anymore. The UM2+ is not meant to be used with USB printing. If you want to use USB printing anyway, you must use "Marlin" gcode flavor instead of "Ultimaker 2". If you want to set up a dedicated 3d printer server, I would recommend OctoPrint.

The future is now! See the "Infill Layer Thickness" setting.

That sounds like an "Extension" type of plugin: https://github.com/Ultimaker/Uranium/wiki/Plugin-Types#extentions An example can be found here: https://github.com/Ultimaker/UraniumExampleExtensionPlugin It also sounds similar to this plugin, but you'll have to update it a little before it will work in Cura 4.6: https://github.com/zoff99/ElectricPrintCostCalculator At the very least you would have to update the api in plugin.json from 4 to 7, but you also have to change from Preferences.getInstance() to CuraApplication.getInstance().getPreferences(), and there is likely more. See also the plugin documentation for Uranium, the framework Cura is built on: https://github.com/Ultimaker/Uranium/wiki/Creating-plugins Here are some more basic examples: https://github.com/Ultimaker?q=example

@SpaceDiceMan: good find. I have already fixed that problem, but have not yet made a new development snapshot. I will probably do so tomorrow.