Thank you for your reply
Just to be more clear
i' am using simplify3D for the makerbot replicator+, becouse i am a novice so i bought this slicer for the "ready to use profile" for makerbot, but now i see that even Cura can export ".makerbot" gcode files so it would be cool to try cura on the makerbot
but there are a lot of parameters to set that i dont know.
So right now it would be cool if i can run a gcode made by cura on the creatbot printer, copying the settings from creatware.
You are saing that there a more or less 100 profiles that are not shown in the cura setup wizard
i already checked the github but i havn't seen one for creatbot f430 😞
but maybe i didn't seach in the right folder
The CAD files to show the printer in the GUI is not important to us, don't worry.
do backup 😉
Yep, i was pretty sure that creatware is based on a older cura version, that is another reason to use the original update Cura instead creatware.
I understand that Printhead settings are for avoid collision but i dont know if the cura negative values correspond to creatware positive values, it's the same writing them in negative?
Ok so let's try the default marling flavor in cura... as simplify3D sets
Yep the creatbot has 2 extruder in the same head, so i measure the distance between the 2 nozzle tips and insert the value here....but why the offset in simplify3D is -20mm and in creatware 72mm ??
both should be correct, i don't think that simplify3D is wrong but it's not clear for me why it's -20mm.
right now i am not planning to do dual extruder prints.
Starting and ending gcode
i dont undestand if it is better to copy that from creatbot or not
i don't have the knowledge to spot the differences from simplify3D start/end gcode from the creatware start/end gcode or Cura ones.
i dont know how much this influence the print
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First I should warn you that there are something like 100 machine settings that aren't shown in these dialogs unfortunately. You can include CAD files of your printer to make it prettier in the GUI for example. But it should be enough to get good prints for most printers. Also document what you did well because sometimes when you upgrade Cura (rarely) you get messed up profiles and the solution is to blow away all user files (like printer settings).
Next, "creatware" is a fork of an older version of Cura. Cura version 15.X I think (15 refers to 2015). Cura 2.X came out that year or the next. Now we are at Cura 4.X. Cura 15.X was an excellent version of Cura so don't think there is anything wrong with it just because it is "old". In fact some people claim it produces nicer looking prints. So it should be easier to convert between creatware and cura settings although some things have changed (and 400 parameters were added - yup - 400).
Printhead settings - yes it looks like you are right and they switched to negative. This is only used when printing in "one at a time mode" where you have multiple STL files and you print one to completion, then put the nozzle back to the glass and print another. It's to avoid the print head hitting earlier completed prints. It's the distance from the nozzle to the 4 "sides" of the print head - the "bounding box" if you will. The other critical value is "gantry height" and cura won't go into "one at a time mode" if any of the STL files are taller than the gantry height (why it doesn't print the shorter parts first - I don't know).
flavor - these are minor changes (usually). reprap printers use Marlin as far as I know so I always thought that was weird. None of this seems to be documented well but I recommend "Marlin" as that I think matches best to Creatware. "volumetric" is where E values are in cubic mm instead of linear mm. That way you can change filaments on the printer without making a new gcode file. That's a rare feature. Ultigcode is for Ultimaker printers only. I don't know the differences of the rest, sorry.
"second extruder offset" is if you have two extruders in the same head. It's the distance between them. Do you have that? You can use a ruler to get it roughly. Are you doing dual extruder prints? Because if so this complicates things a lot. There are many different implementations of dual extruders and I don't know that Cura supports them all.
As far as "start" gcodes this gets a little more complicated. Cura will add more start gcodes automatically like setting the nozzle temp. If you add one of these in the start gcodes then cura will see that you did that and not add the nozzle temp a second time. The brackets thing - the names probably haven't changed from creatware but they might have. In the old cura 15.X (creatware) it was easy because the names of things like bed temp and nozzle temp matched exactly the names in the GUI (except spaces and capitalization I think but it was consistent). Someone published the names of all the Cura 4.X names (like nozzle temp) on this forum. In fact I remember Aldo did it ( I think he has 2 cura names and I forget which he uses - I think this one: @ahoeben )
I would try the default gcodes, slice and save a gcode file and examine it.
Some of the older Makerbot printers don't accept gcode at all - they have some kind of shorthand to save space. I guess this was back when we had to put gcode files on floppies maybe? (I'm kidding - it wasn't that long ago - I don't know why they tried to save a little space - I think that turned out to be a bad decision). I'm not sure if Makerbot accepts normal gcode these days.
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Or maybe "makerbot"?
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