thopiekar

All this work won't be possible with all the testers here How do you mean? In the configuration dialog, there is the "Show wizard before opening SolidWorks files" checkbox. If you uncheck this, the wizard before opening or reloading a file won't appear. The "default" is then the quality you set up in the configuration dialog or the last time you used the wizard. If this is not happening, then it might be a bug. Well, I'm using the following values for fine and coarse (3D-printing): https://github.com/thopiekar/CuraSolidWorksPlugin/blob/master/SolidWorksReader.py#L673 If you have better values for the angle tolerance and deviation, then just let me know. I'm open for discussions!

Nope. "3D printing" are profiles (custom export settings), which are finer than defined in SolidWorks. SolidWorks is also defining coarse and fine profiles, but these seem to be for huge printers, therefore they are not generating such a fine mesh as needed for desktop 3D-printing. With these extra profiles, you can get out more details

Know that issue from feedback from other people. Here is a short description: (Will add it to my website...) Open the configuration dialog: Disable autorotation:

I guess this only works *because* you are using SWX 2018! Then the plugin is using the capabilities of 3MF, which understands multibody parts. Yes, this behaviour is intended. When opening a file, the plugin checks whether there is no SWX already running. When it finds the running windows, it skips loading a new background instance and then it is directly doing what the plugin is supposed to do: Converting and passing the results to Cura Thank you for your great words! Always love to hear that (PS: Will make a note about who has which version asap )

I guess the interesting line, which occurs in both logs is: Due to the previous issues you had, it looks like Cura disabled the plugin on it's own. This should be the reason why the filetype (SLDPRT, etc.) is not registered. If you need a guide how to check, whether the plugin is enabled. This screenshot is from the early days of the plugin. You will find the plugin under the name "CuraSolidWorksPlugin" and there must be a checkbox in front of the name. Make sure it is checked. (Think this screenshot is from 2.7, if I'm not wrong...)

No! I appreciate your willingness to help, but that goes too far Yes, let's wait for feedback. I'm actually mostly interested in SWX 2016, 2017 and 2018 feedback. Between 2016 and 2017 there is a breaking point because SWX since 2017 begins to support 3MF and SWX 2018 tells me whether there are changes on in the most recent version. I'm also willing to fix issues with older versions, but there are either no issues or people don't complain. But if they don't then I can't help. I'm fine if you only test, what you can do at the moment

@FTsabrov, interesting to see how Cura behaves to you while looking at your first post. Especially, that it decides to use once circles with the correct diameter, then again with a smaller diameter. Since it seems to be a model which seems to be rotated around the Y-axis, could you be so kind and make a 1/4 cutout. I can imagine that you have something inside the model, that makes the slicing engine decide to use these circles. Additionally, I'm also curious how and whether the SolidWorks plugin I'm maintaining at the moment, solves the issue or not. I introduced there 3D printing profiles, which care about converting your model in such a quality, that it fits to the needs of 3D printing on desktop printers. Would be great, if you could give it a try and write some feedback about it!

Also für mich hört sich das so an, als sei der Extruder verstopft. Ich persönlich würde mich wundern, wenn der Drucker plötzlich aufhört zu drucken, während du offensichtlich ein Cura Version nutzt, die du schon eine lange Zeit traust. Ich würde dir empfehlen ebenfalls Cura mal zu erneuern, wenn du dir die Zeit nimmst, oder hat es einen guten Grund, warum du auf 3.0.4 bleibst? Zum Schluss würde ich dir empfehlen einfach mal den Extruder zu reinigen. Es ist nicht schwer und du kannst relativ schnell, zum Beispiel mit dem Druck eines 10x10x10 Würfels verifizieren, ob dieser noch Rückstände enthält. (PS: Ja, ein Extruder kann auch scheinbar zur Hälfte verstopft sein. Hatte es auch mal, aber wenn man den gleichen G-Code, so wie ich verwendet hat und man hat trotzdem unterschiede, dann beruht das Problem auf mechanischer Ebene. Will heißen, wenn du in Cura slict - mal für E1 und mal für E2 - und zwischen den Extrudern hast du einen Unterschied, dann ist das der Extruder nicht die Software. Der Unterschied beider Maschinencodes ist nur der Wechsel zwischen Werkzeug 1 (== Extruder 1) und Werkzeug 2 (== Extruder 2). Die Wegbeschreibung und Extrusionsanweisung ist die gleiche. Reinigen lohnt sich wirklich!) Grüße!

@XYZDesignPro In the first post. Next time I shouldn't forget to quote the link from there. Hope this version works for you, too. Please tell me when giving feedback, which SWX version you are using. Had the last days too many things in my mind, so can't remember, what you are using

Welchen Drucker verwendest du?

I just uploaded 0.5.4. Feedback is welcome as usual!

Alright, so the autorotation feature in the plugin is useful for you. Now I looked again into your log and noticed you are using SolidWorks 2016. Somehow I can remember, that someone mentioned using SolidWorks 2013. The reason I'm asking is, that I do not know for which SolidWorks versions this rotation is needed. If I would know that the misorientation is there since SolidWorks offers STL export, then I could do the re-orientation just generally. At the moment I'm checking whether SolidWorks >= 2016 is installed.

You catched an interesting bug! Everything works fine, but I'm asking SolidWorks something after closing it. Therefore no one to talk with. I'll look tomorrow into the code and look for a solution. Additionally, can you answer me one question maybe?: If you export an STL manually and open it in Cura, is it correctly orientated? (For the next time do not copy paste content from the log, but upload the file directly. If it is to huge, close Cura, remove it, reproduce the bug and close Cura again. The new file should be smaller. Forum maintainers could rate this amount of text as spam.)

Hey @AbeFM, thank you for testing the plugin. I'm unsure about what you wrote. Why did you remove the macro (?) directory? Or do you mean, that you removed the while plugin directory to uninstall it? Can you send me your log file? Sorry, that the plugin does not work for you anymore whereas I managed to fix it for SWX 2017: https://github.com/thopiekar/CuraSolidWorksPlugin/issues/48#issuecomment-366586668 PS: And it would be useful to reproduce the error by sending me the exported STL of the file you were trying to open. Regards

Hmm, the only thing that is missing is that the file is not executable. Isn't "chmod ug+x Cura-3.2.0.AppImage" not the precise description of what you want? True, seems like he is mixing up Debian packages with AppImages.

New version released. Had to do many tweaks to the code after finding different issues. * Confirmed to work on 2017: https://github.com/thopiekar/CuraSolidWorksPlugin/issues/48#issuecomment-366527143

Fixed! Never forget that 3MF SceneNodes have their children A new testing version is up, soon.

Got the files and here is the hero of the day: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2405941391/permalink/10156246755011392/ and best of all. I can reproduce the error. Drag an dropping his 3MF works, but using the function inside my plugin it fails.

Well, people told me often in life that I can't do things because of XY and won't manage. I'm normally motivated by things I believe and am convinced about. So whenever I hear those XY complains, then this is putting me on fire. Btw. the debug mode works. Now I'm also able to see another bug, which I was not believing in. However, I still need the files produced by SolidWorks. Because the 3MF file I have here, just works fine. I definitely need a 3MF file made by SolidWorks, which is crashing my plugin.

@kmanstudios many thanks! I'm getting very close now. I guess it is a question of maximally an hour to get it done. People, who know me good know that I'm not giving up too easily

Could someone be so kind and convert the following file into STL and 3MF? https://thopiekar.eu/download/_dev/CuraSolidWorksPluginTestCube.SLDPRT Due to feedback from Ultimaker B.V. and people using SolidWorks 2017 and newer, there are issues with the plugin. I need the files to fully understand what is going wrong. At the moment I'm implementing a debug mode to the plugin, so it acts like any SolidWorks version is installed. So I can simulate the behaviour of the plugin on SolidWorks version, I even don't have. Regards and enjoy your weekend!

On Ubuntu, you have like on many other Linux distributions a software package manager. By default, it is using only as a source packages from Ubuntu. But you can also expand the list of package sources with third party sources. A personal package archive, in short PPA, is something that you can have at launchpad.net, which is a website by Canonical (Ubuntu). So if your like you can either distribute your software in form of packages there or upload packages for eg. upgrades or because the software has not been packaged so far. Years before it was just the case that there were no packages for Cura in Ubuntu, so I began to create these packages. I can send you later a link to an instruction in form of a summary how to configure the PPA. Currently, Ubuntu 18.04 comes with Cura 3.1, but like often, it won't get upgraded until the next Ubuntu release. Therefore you would have to wait half of a year for a next Cura release. In my PPA I can decide on my own when to release new packages. PS: There is the step by step guide. https://thopiekar.eu/cura/ppa/installation/

Can you tell us more about your Ubuntu installation? If you are interested in a lightweight solution, which is updating Cura, which comes with Ubuntu 18.04, then you can use my PPA for it. Stable packages are only available for Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic), because there is still a bug, which sounds like the crash you get. On Ubuntu bionic this is gone.

How do you mean? Is in your opinion the plugin also giving bad results? Or do you think it does it better compared to the manual STL export? Thanks!

Haha, sounds like free beer for me