Crua 3.0.3 loads, displays drawing platform, then quits.

[lahines100 0]

I am trying to use Cura 3.0.3 on a Windows 7 platform. When Cura is selected, it goes through setup,loading software and machines. When I select "Other" and then select "FABtotum" the drawing platform loads, waits a couple of seconds, then the program quits. I have a fast video processor and 32 GB of computer memory.

[kmanstudios 1,120]

What is your video processor though? Driver updated? Etc. Also, 32GB of ram is not necessarily video ram.

[lahines100 0]

Agreed, which is why I said the computer has 32 GB of memory.

Video card is a GEForce GTX-960 with 9/16/17 drivers and 2 GB DDR5 memory.

[kmanstudios 1,120]

OK, the video chip is not the issue. Usually people seem to have an issue with the intel video chips.

Definitely would seem to not be a VRAM issue. Just for kicks, have you tried to select a 'standard' machine to see if there is an issue with your selection of printers?

[tinkergnome 927]

one idea that i read here recently...: take a look at the log file: "%APPDATA%\cura\3.0\cura.log", if it reports a problem in "grid.shader", try to replace the file in the program folder (....Cura\resources\shaders) with the newer version from the GitHub repository: https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/tree/master/resources/shaders

[lahines100 0]

Thanks for your help. I have copied the last few lines from the log file with latest grid shader installed (still fails):

2017-10-22 01:32:18,399 - INFO - FirmwareUpdateChecker.FirmwareUpdateChecker._onContainerAdded [38]: You have a 'FABtotum Personal Fabricator' in printer list. Let's check the firmware!

2017-10-22 01:32:18,515 - WARNING - cura.Settings.ContainerManager.getContainerMetaDataEntry [184]: Could not get metadata of container because it was not found.

2017-10-22 01:32:18,718 - WARNING - UM.Qt.Bindings.Theme.getIcon [109]: No icon tool_icon.svg defined in Theme

2017-10-22 01:32:18,753 - WARNING - UM.Qt.Bindings.Theme.getIcon [109]: No icon tool_icon.svg defined in Theme

2017-10-22 01:32:18,888 - DEBUG - UM.Mesh.MeshData.calculateNormalsFromVertices [425]: Calculating normals took 0.0009999275207519531 seconds

2017-10-22 01:32:18,958 - DEBUG - STLReader.STLReader.read [79]: Loaded a mesh with 21378 vertices

2017-10-22 01:32:19,334 - WARNING - cura.Settings.ContainerManager.getContainerMetaDataEntry [184]: Could not get metadata of container because it was not found.

2017-10-22 01:32:19,661 - DEBUG - UM.View.GL.ShaderProgram.load [55]: Loading shader file [C:\Program Files\Cura 3.0\resources\shaders\default.shader]...

2017-10-22 01:32:19,717 - DEBUG - UM.View.GL.ShaderProgram.load [55]: Loading shader file [C:\Program Files\Cura 3.0\resources\shaders\grid.shader]...

2017-10-22 01:32:36,469 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [39]: An uncaught exception has occurred!

2017-10-22 01:32:36,592 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: Traceback (most recent call last):

2017-10-22 01:32:36,628 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: File "X:\3.0\build\inst\lib\python3.5\site-packages\UM\Qt\Bindings\MainWindow.py", line 183, in _render

2017-10-22 01:32:36,661 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: File "C:\Program Files\Cura 3.0\plugins\SolidView\SolidView.py", line 76, in beginRendering

2017-10-22 01:32:36,695 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: if not node.render(renderer):

2017-10-22 01:32:36,729 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: File "X:\3.0\build\inst\lib\python3.5\site-packages\cura\BuildVolume.py", line 179, in render

2017-10-22 01:32:36,763 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: File "X:\3.0\build\inst\lib\python3.5\site-packages\UM\View\GL\OpenGL.py", line 141, in createShaderProgram

2017-10-22 01:32:36,797 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: File "X:\3.0\build\inst\lib\python3.5\site-packages\UM\View\GL\ShaderProgram.py", line 64, in load

2017-10-22 01:32:36,830 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: File "configparser.py", line 696, in read

2017-10-22 01:32:36,864 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: File "configparser.py", line 1063, in _read

2017-10-22 01:32:36,897 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: configparser.DuplicateSectionError: While reading from 'C:\\Program Files\\Cura 3.0\\resources\\shaders\\grid.shader' [line 171]: section 'defaults' already exists

2017-10-22 01:32:36,998 - DEBUG - UM.Mesh.MeshData.approximateConvexHull [392]: approximateConvexHull(target_count=1024) Calculating 3D convex hull took 0.06400346755981445 seconds. 78 input vertices. 78 output vertices.

2017-10-22 01:32:37,253 - DEBUG - AutoSave.AutoSave._onTimeout [48]: Autosaving preferences, instances and profiles

2017-10-22 01:32:37,512 - DEBUG - CuraEngineBackend.CuraEngineBackend._terminate [232]: Attempting to kill the engine process

2017-10-22 01:32:37,530 - DEBUG - CuraEngineBackend.CuraEngineBackend._terminate [238]: Killing engine process

2017-10-22 01:32:37,559 - DEBUG - CuraEngineBackend.CuraEngineBackend._terminate [241]: Engine process is killed. Received return code 1

2017-10-22 01:32:37,608 - DEBUG - UM.Backend.Backend._createSocket [214]: Previous socket existed. Closing that first.

2017-10-22 01:32:37,764 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [39]: An uncaught exception has occurred!

2017-10-22 01:32:37,891 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: Traceback (most recent call last):

2017-10-22 01:32:37,929 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: File "X:\3.0\build\inst\lib\python3.5\site-packages\UM\Qt\Bindings\MainWindow.py", line 184, in _render

2017-10-22 01:32:37,966 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: File "X:\3.0\build\inst\lib\python3.5\site-packages\UM\Qt\QtRenderer.py", line 138, in render

2017-10-22 01:32:38,007 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: File "X:\3.0\build\inst\lib\python3.5\site-packages\UM\View\DefaultPass.py", line 23, in render

2017-10-22 01:32:38,042 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: File "X:\3.0\build\inst\lib\python3.5\site-packages\UM\View\RenderBatch.py", line 164, in render

2017-10-22 01:32:38,080 - CRITICAL - cura.CrashHandler.show [42]: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'bind'

2017-10-22 01:32:38,419 - DEBUG - UM.Backend.Backend._logSocketState [174]: Socket state changed to

[tinkergnome 927]

@lahines100 - You should report this as an issue at the GitHub repository (including the lines from the log file). Than there are much better chances that the developers get notice of it.