Hi,
Great news! Today we have officially launched our new Cura software ‘Cura 13.03′, which is now in our Download section. We have integrated several icons in the screen for easy access of the core functions, we have made more ‘screen-a-state’ available to make viewing easier, we have made a feature that makes it easier to handle bottoms that are uneven and lots more, but since a picture says more than a thousand words we figured that making a screen-cast would be worth at least a gazillion.That’s a real number, right? Anyway, check out our screen cast:
WOOT WOOT! Nice!
A great update!
Its a lot faster in drawing the layer preview, and the new rotate, scale and mirror functions work well even on larger model files.
Great work, Daid and the development team!
Love this machine. Have it a month and a half and its printing without a single glitch so far. With the new CURA, it will be even better.
Go Daid, go Ultimaking! Very nice update.
Like the new user interface. The “cut bottom off” feature is also very usable. Rock on!
Just received my ultimaker in the process of putting it together. Had looked at the features of the new cura update it looks fantastic and I’m sure it will impress many alike love it keep up the good work
Great, but is it always limited at 2gb on windows system ?
It’s still limited to 2GB on windows. This limitation is currently imposed by the http://pypy.org/ project, which does not provide a 64bit windows version.
New development is being done to get rid of this limitation and improve Cura even more with a faster preparation process.
Thank you for this complete answer Daid
Nice! Good job Daid!
The only thing I don’t like is the navigating through the layers.
It’s very hard to view layer by layer working on a laptop without mouse.
Also going straight to a specific layer is harder.
Buy à mouse
Buy a mouse
It has been noted, and improvements for this are on the update list for the 13.04 bugfix release. (Which will address all the small easy to fix issues that people are having with the 13.03 release)
It will add keyboard up/down control for the layers.
Neat !
I’ll show tonight during our 3D printing workshop !
Layers aren’t showing.
Does it work out of the box on 64bit Linux? Anybody tried?
Seams like it does not
. Were trying on XUbuntu 12.10 64bit.
Installation with dpkg works well. However, can not slice with error message in log “/usr/bin/pypy: No module named Cura”
Unpacked tar archive in home directory. Attempt to run Cura/cura.py gives an error that Cura package was not found. Copy and run cura.py from /usr/share/cura/ installed by .deb where package pathes are set. Can run Cura and slice the model. However, can not connect to the printer:
Changing monitoring state from ‘Offline’ to ‘Opening serial port’
Connecting to: /dev/ttyACM0
Connected to: Serial(port=’/dev/ttyACM0′, baudrate=115200, bytesize=8, parity=’N', stopbits=1, timeout=0.1, xonxoff=False, rtscts=False, dsrdtr=False), starting monitor
Changing monitoring state from ‘Opening serial port’ to ‘Detecting baudrate’
Recv: XB
Unexpected error while setting baudrate: 250000 ValueError: ‘Failed to set custom baud rate: 250000′ @ machineCom.py:_monitor:358
Trying baudrate: 230400
Send: M105
Baudrate test retry: 4
Send: M105
Baudrate test retry: 3
Send: M105
Baudrate test retry: 2
Send: M105
Baudrate test retry: 1
Send: M105
Baudrate test retry: 0
Send: M105
Trying baudrate: 115200
Send: M105
Baudrate test retry: 4
. . . And so on
Tried to set baud rate manually to 115200. Does not work either:
Changing monitoring state from ‘Offline’ to ‘Opening serial port’
Connecting to: /dev/ttyACM0
Connected to: Serial(port=’/dev/ttyACM0′, baudrate=115200, bytesize=8, parity=’N', stopbits=1, timeout=2, xonxoff=False, rtscts=False, dsrdtr=False), starting monitor
Changing monitoring state from ‘Opening serial port’ to ‘Connecting’
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Send: M105
Send: M105
Send: M105
Send: M105
Send: M105
Changing monitoring state from ‘Connecting’ to ‘Closed’
Connection closed, closing down monitor
I know that printer works because I can print with prontinterface on the same system.
… forget to say – in order to make slicing working with unpacked tar file I removed pypy directory (have pypy installed on my system).
Hi Andrey,
I’m sad to report that a few issues got into the new Linux deb package. Luckily for all of us, they where quickly identified by users and a new bugfix release will be out that resolves these issues.
The tar.gz release contains a 32bit pypy version, which doesn’t work on 64bit systems. So that’s a bit of a mess. Which is why I packaged the .deb version.
Small note of warning, some debian based distributions still package pypy 1.8, which contains some nasty bugs which makes Cura crash.
Finally, there are still some connection problems on Linux. Be sure to install a firmware from linux (else you have a 250000 baudrate firmware on your machine, which doesn’t work with linux). And make sure you have enough rights on the /dev/ttyACM0 device (depending on the distro you need to add yourself to a group)
Dear Daid,
Have been playing around with several versions of Cura – also with the latest beta-version 13.03.
So, I have a few questions regarding …BETA-13.03 ( with the remark that the version ‘only’ works in a command window)
Q1: the BETA version doen’t seem to use current_profile.ini and preferences.ini located in the same directory where steamengine.exe and file.stl are located? Which *.ini files uses SteamEngine.exe then?
Q2: would be nice is there would be a 64bit version of …BETA-13.03
Q3: using the BETA-version I noticed that there are a lot ( realy a lot) of ‘double’ X-Y coordinates in every ‘wall-inner’ and ‘wall-outer’ set. How come?
Q4: Also, the BETA-version ‘fills’ the model completely ( which was not asked for…. ) only a bottom layer was asked for/ hoped for …..
Could you comment on these questions?
best regards
van den Rul Sylvain
belgie
It failed on linux but I managed to fix it:
– download and install the debian package
– if it works bail out
Else I managed to make it work by also getting and unzipping the master zip file from github. It is certainly not the cleanest way though (and it may be unstable), but it could help a few linux users!
cd /wherever/you/want
curl https://github.com/daid/Cura/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd Cura-master
cp -a /usr/share/cura/power/ .
cp scripts/linux/cura.py .
./cura.py
Then I guess that I could delete+remove the debian package.
To be complete here is my pypy version:
apt-show-versions |grep pypy
# pypy/quantal uptodate 1.9+dfsg-1
# pypy-lib/quantal uptodate 1.9+dfsg-1
A good job
Thank you