Xeddog

In the attached photo, there are 4 attempts at placing custom supports. 1 - just placing one at the top of the area, 2 - Place one at the bottom, 3 - expand the one at the top all the way down to the surface of the part where I want the supports, 4- starting from the bottom and expanding all the way up the the surface that needs supports. There are about a dozen other things I have tried to get supports in that space leading up to filling in the space completely, but the result is always the same. After slicing and switching to layer view there are no supports in place. At the time of this solid view screenshot, Supports>Touching Build Plate is enabled. If I switch to Supports>Everywhere, this area gets filled in completely, but so do other parts of the model that cannot have supports and I would have to spend a lot of time blocking certain areas, and there have been a couple of small but critical areas that supports will not block, but that is the opposite issue. For now, I went ahead and printed this piece using "Touching Buildplate" supports, and it did ok, but I think it would look much better if that area at the top would have been supported. So am I doing this wrong, and if so, what do I do to make it happen? Or is this a bug and if so where would I report it?

One suggestion I think I would like to see is to make the settings panel a fly-out from the side, and that I could adjust the width of the panel. Or at the least, I think the settings panel could be narrower. Wayne

One thing that has been an irritation for me for quite a while is the printer prefix. When are we going to be able to specify our own prefix?

This is close. I have already de-selected the option to send the data, and gone to the More Information dialog and checked the box "I don't want to send these data", and yet I get the nag every time I start Cura 3.6.0. The 4.0 beta does the same. Besides, I looked through the info collected and some of it is just wrong. Ex: it says Cura 3.3 instead of 3.6. And OS is Linux 16.04. The machine I am looking at this info on is a Windows machine. I do have an Ubuntu Linux machine, but it hasn't had 16.04 on it for a year. (I know it says this is an example).

Is the new version going to stop nagging about sending anonymous data?

I saw that, and I intend to look into it in the next day or two. Thanks, Wayne

ahoeben - Sorry about not recognizing the icons. I have been using Cura for a while now and never noticed them before. So much for my observational skills. But I think the rest of my post is still valid.

I didn't read through all the posts, but in my opinion, this new interface takes up more space to show less information. For example, at the top there is space taken up with basically two full lines to show what could be condensed to one. That takes up space in the model display area. The settings panel is wider and shows fewer lines of settings. On a laptop, that is just too much space taken up unnecessarily. Just above the settings is a line showing your filament profile, infill %, and two more icons. What are they? One looks like a combination of custom supports and scaling, and the other one looks like maybe Z-offset? At any rate, they always show "Off" Wayne

I just got the update to upgrade Cura on my Ubuntu 16.04 desktop machine through the normal update process. No errors . . . and no Cura. When I launch Cura I get the splash screen (and it shows Cura 2.7 PPA) for about 3 seconds and then it goes away. That's it. No crash notification, no error message, no nothing. Any Ideas how I can fix this? Thanks, Wayne