Programmatically send a CAD file to Cura via JSON push

[Sven_Hinrichs 0]

Hi All, 

 

Is there a way (such as a plugin) to send a CAD file to CURA and open it automatically?
I can provide a JSON using Post, and it will contain a URL to the CAD file

"modelUrl": "https://[mylinktothecadfile]",

 

Thanks, All!

[MariMakes 198]

Hey @Sven_Hinrichs,

 

Welcome to the Ultimaker Community 🎉
This looks like something that the ThingiBrowser does. 
You can read more about it here: https://github.com/ChrisTerBeke/CuraThingiBrowserPlugin

It get's more trickier if you try to load a file format that is not supported 
This is a list of supported file types https://support.makerbot.com/s/article/1667411286871

Can you help me understand, what problem are you trying to solve? 

[Sven_Hinrichs 0]

Hi Mari, 

 

Apologies, I didn't see your reply!

Essentially, I'm trying to automate a process where designs are stored centrally and I can "order" them from a central system. I want to avoid having to go into CURA and opening cad files individually (pull), but I'd rather have them pushed into CURA. 

I have the following components:

• A library of CAD designs, hosted on AWS
  • My S3 bucket is mounted as a local drive (via rclone)
  • I have access control, so I can pass a URL from where the files can be downloaded
• Fusion360, 
  • This exports the CAD file directly to the S3 bucket
  • Today, I'm exporting it to the mounted drive
  • Once this all works, I'll get the JSON exporter plug-in to save files automatrically
• A slicer, such as CURA
• A tool to post JSONs; I use make.com
  • I can easily query my S3 bucket by file name and retrieve the CAD file URL
  • I can then pass that URL to {hopefully} CURA
  • The CAD file should then automatically load

Hope this makes sense?

[gr5 2,167]

You can have Cura slice from the command line.  Does that help?  It's not trivial as there are many configuration files (machine config, profile, overrides, material config, per-nozzle config) but many people use this technique to automate slicing.

 

google "cura engine command line" and read both the github and forum articles.