Hello everyone,
New Cura user and this is also my first-time posting. I was curious about the behaviour if Cura on my Mac running High Sierra. I attempted to search the forums and only found one or two posts on this forum related to Cura running slow on High Sierra, which is not what I am experiencing.
Cura (latest version as of this post) runs quite fast -and very smoothly- but my slicing preview has become distorted. The first few times I ran Cura, there were no issues and everything was clear and concise (and actually pretty if I may say so), and I even had access to the Extruders under the Line Types menu. Looked just like the previews on the website. After using it several times more however, things have become decidedly worse.
When I launch Cura now, the display is quite different. There are a bunch of stringy blue lines that run between one part of the model to another, and I am no longer able to see the extruder options in the Line Type Colour Scheme menu. It now says it is in Compatibility Mode. I originally thought that the stringy blue lines meant the model was having slicing issues and running filament between open spaces in the model, so I ran a really low quality print to find out. Everything printed wonderfully! I tried a few other models and experienced the same thing: great prints, wretched display, and extruders were still missing from the Colour Schemes menu. (I made sure that my printer was set as the default extruder, and even deleted and added my printer again a few times.) With a little effort -but not too much- I can still make out what is happening at each step with most models, but those lines still persist. After a little googling, I decided to downgrade to the version of Cura that was supposed to be made for High Sierra, and I still had the same issues. Given that the issues were still there, I decided I may as well go back to Cura 4.8.0.
What might be happening here? Please see the screenshots below for an example of what I have been experiencing. There are multiple screenshots so you can see the different menus I have opened. I could really use some advice. ๐
Thanks!
-Kim
Machine Config:
iMac 3.06 GHz Intel Core i3
16GB Memory
ATI Radeon HD 4670
Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6