Sometimes I wish Cura would only support Ultimaker printers. Such discussions are tedious and annoying.
No one is forced to use Cura and if there are so many alternatives that support USB perfectly, then I personally would use this software. No one is sad about it, not even Ultimaker, since they have nothing to gain from whether you use Cura or not.
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chumlee
I would like to be able to print directly from my pc to my 3d printer
treereaver
Dreadedhill. If you are trying to connect to something as complex as a printer using a Mac I suggest you get a Windows PC. But, kidding aside, Why do you say :- "You do not
tinkergnome
Unfortunatly that's not the way how USB printing on those printers work. Those printers are driven by an 8 bit microcontroller that stores only a few lines of gcode at a time in a small buffer. Printi
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You answered yourself what it will do: it will stop the print for 30 seconds. 🙂 Doesn't sound to me a s huge problem over "not unusual 24 hours job", isn't it? Not to say that PC that does things like you've described requires a fix, regardless of what it is used for.
Sure, nobody wants. That's why people invented installers, which address 99% percents of type of problems you described as a very first step of software use.
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