No layer view after slicing

[th31nfamous 0]

Hi guys, i'm new to the 3d world, i just did my first prints with my ender 3v2 and results are awesome, i did the cat and dog from the card that came with the printer.. now i've download the lastest Cura software,

 

Now here's my problem.. i want to make a temp tower so i load the .stl file in cura, then i slice the tower. i go in preview mode but i only have the xray view, i don't have any layer view and the layer scrollbar on the right doesn't appear.

 

-I tried so far to: uninstall the cura 4.11 version and went with the 4.9 which doesnt help, 

-I tried to enable force layer view compatibility mode ( my selection won't stay enabled, as soon i close the windows and go back the choice is not enabled.. (still i restarted cura after and didn't change anything)

 

Here's my computer spec:

 

Windows 7 pro

4gb ram

Inter pentium dual cpu e2160  @1.80ghz 1.80ghz

Geforce GTX 550 Ti

[gr5 2,210]

cura uses openGL.  openGL won't support certain functions if the video driver doesn't have that ability.  Cura knows this and reduces the feature set automatically.  That's the problem.

 

Try to see if there is an upgrade to the GTX 550 driver you are using.  That usually fixes the issue where features are missing.  Possibly you can also install a newer version of openGL?  I'm not sure if that's a thing or how to do that buy you can google.

[th31nfamous 0]

1 hour ago, gr5 said:

cura uses openGL.  openGL won't support certain functions if the video driver doesn't have that ability.  Cura knows this and reduces the feature set automatically.  That's the problem.

 

Try to see if there is an upgrade to the GTX 550 driver you are using.  That usually fixes the issue where features are missing.  Possibly you can also install a newer version of openGL?  I'm not sure if that's a thing or how to do that buy you can google.

I just did an update for my graphic card, didn't help tho.. Ill try to search more on that openGL thing..

 

Thanks for your help, it gives me some direction from where to search

[nallath 1,124]

Please post your log files. We can see if it detected the right opengl version with those.

[th31nfamous 0]

On 11/1/2021 at 10:28 AM, nallath said:

Please post your log files. We can see if it detected the right opengl version with those.

 

 

I was actually googling and stumb onto my own thread to found out i had a reply i never saw yet..

 

Thx for the reply, here's a log from my cura app.. hope it works..

 

 

cura.log

[nallath 1,124]

You disabled the simulation plugin, which provides the layer view. Enable it again to get it back.

[ahoeben 1,968]

In the version after Cura 4.13, the Simulation View plugin will have a better description, so it is more clear to the end-user what "Simulation View" is and that you should not disable it.

 

In general though, most of Cura is implemented as a "plugin". It is not advisable to just disable plugins that you don't immediately recognize. Chances are you need the functionality provided by the plugin.

[th31nfamous 0]

On 12/28/2021 at 11:08 AM, nallath said:

You disabled the simulation plugin, which provides the layer view. Enable it again to get it back.

Brilliant!! it is now working.. thanks so much man

[th31nfamous 0]

On 12/28/2021 at 11:20 AM, ahoeben said:

In the version after Cura 4.13, the Simulation View plugin will have a better description, so it is more clear to the end-user what "Simulation View" is and that you should not disable it.

 

In general though, most of Cura is implemented as a "plugin". It is not advisable to just disable plugins that you don't immediately recognize. Chances are you need the functionality provided by the plugin.

I will try it for sure.. thanks for the help! !

[Danilo1910 0]

On 03/01/2022 at 01:20, th31nfamous said:

Brilhante!! agora está funcionando.. muito obrigado cara

what is the simulation plugin? here in Cura it's only in compatibility mode