Has someone ever tried to control Cura directly from an iPad (with touch gestures and Apple Pencil) extending the Mac display wirelessly thanks to Sidecar?
Has someone ever tried to control Cura directly from an iPad (with touch gestures and Apple Pencil) extending the Mac display wirelessly thanks to Sidecar?
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ahoeben 1,981
Chances are unchanged.
Cura 5.0 on M1 Macs still runs using "Rosetta", not as a native application. But even if it all ran natively on M1 chips, that does not mean that it is just a push of the button to also have it run on Ipad OS. For example, Cura is built using Python, and Python is not available on Ipad OS. The same is true for other pieces of software Cura depends on. Running Cura on an Ipad would still require a full rewrite of the application unfortunately.
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dank13 1
Fair enough, I still would pay money for a cura ipad app.
Maybe a cloud/ web base cura could be an alternative. I've seen a couple around but they are not as good as Cura.
I just want to be able to go from shapr3d to ipad sd card reader without having to fire up the computer to do the slicing.
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ahoeben 1,981
Maybe it could, but that would still be a completely new Cura frontend.
Personally, I dread the day that Ultimaker decides to go that route, because it is just about the only way they can stop developing Cura as open source (and in the process stop supporting 3rd party printers).
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