[Cura 4.8 on macOS 11 Big Sur; cannot click (or in any other way interact with) objects.]

Incidentally; the Arachne Alpha does not have this problem.

[Cura 4.8 on macOS 11 Big Sur; preview pane empty.]

Incidentally; the Arachne Alpha does not have this problem.

[Cura 4.8 on macOS 11 Big Sur; preview pane empty.]

Using 4.8 on macOS 11 Big Sur, after slicing a model, the preview pane is empty.

Other details work, like number of layers, also the gcode produced is valid, so it is just a display error.

 

Please advice what you need from me to start investigating.

 

Thank you 🙂

[Cura 4.8 on macOS 11 Big Sur; cannot click (or in any other way interact with) objects.]

Using Cura 4.8 on macOS 11 Big Sur, I cannot select or interact with objects placed in the software.

I can select using CMD A, but then, trying to click the "move" arrows, the selection is undone.

 

Please advice what you need from me to get the investigation underway.

 

Thank you 🙂

[Question: how to prevent settings changing when switching to a different printer?]

Hmmm ... now why didn't I think of that ...

[Question: how to prevent settings changing when switching to a different printer?]

I see what you mean. But perhaps take a lesson from Slic3r? 

Material settings: everything material related, to tackle things like over- or under extrusion , as you said.

Printer settings: every setting that is printer related; resonance would be tackled by setting the infill speed, and, of course, the printer would know its own jerk and acceleration settings.

And finally; print settings; everything that is not printer or material dependant. Like number of wall lines, infill percentage, things like that.

 

Again, I get what you are saying, I understand it's not as black and white, but I'm just stating an inconvenience 🙂 and perhaps with this insight, we can make Cura better.

 

So once again; thank you. I appreciate the time you took to respond.

 

"Not carrying over ANY settings at least makes that predictable."

True, it IS very predictable, because there is just "one" settings library. It's all on one pile. If it were split into a few sections, one section carried over, one or more others not, it would still be predictable. I've lost quite some time discovering my second printer was printing in .1 layer height, 70% infill, while I intended to have 2 identical prints running at .2 with 25% infill.

 

Anyway. I'm going in circles 🙂

Sorry.

[Question: how to prevent settings changing when switching to a different printer?]

Thank you for your reply and although it makes sense for some of the settings, it most certainly does not make sense for many others. But I'll accept it, and will have to be careful when switching printers.

 

"Cura does not "know" which settings are safe to copy between printers and which are not."

 

Maybe it is time that Cura be taught this 😉 . 

[Question: how to prevent settings changing when switching to a different printer?]

I often balance my print jobs over two printers and when switching from one to the other in Cura, all my settings change. How can I prevent that? It is quote annoying to have to recheck every setting, like infill%, number of walls, wall alternating etc just because I switched to a different printer. It's not like those settings are printer dependent, but Cura treats them as such.