rjwern2

I thnk you are short-sighted to say you have bigger issues to tackle. I am looking at your forums and many people seem to want to print directly from USB. I just purchased an Ultimaker 2 Extended+ and think it is a rgeat machine, but your decision to ignore printing from USB doesn;t make sense. I have been using a CNC machine for years and always send code from the computer direcrtly to my machine. It is inefficient to have to remove the card from the Ultimaker, put it in my computer, save the file, eject the car, put it back in the Ultimaker, and find the file. I recignize that this is histiorically common for 3D printers, but that doesn't mean it is a good protocol. IMHO this should be a much higher priority because it is simply far more effieienct to print directly to the machine.

I'm really surprised that people don't see the efficiency of printing directly to the Ultimater. I've been using CNC machines for years. We send our G code directly from the computer via a computer cable to the CNC machine and it works without failure. This should be a simple thing to do in between the PC and the Ultimater. It's more efficient then saving a file to an SD card removing it from your PC and then taking it to the Ultimaker. It saves an extra step. After all, I wouldn't save a word document to a floppy disk and then take it to my printer to plug it in in order to print out the document. That's just inefficient. By the way, I've been using replicator 2X for several years and as bad as MakerBot is they were at least able to create a system for their software to print directly to the printer.