Got my Printrbot up and running with its new firmware, did a PID tune,

Got my Printrbot up and running with its new firmware, did a PID tune, and am now calibrating filament temp with this cooling tower. Looking pretty good! Had no idea cura allowed you to change temps at different heights, very usefull infošŸ‘

Glad to see you got your printer up and running :slight_smile:

You can change temps in cura? I had to change manually in the gcode file.

@Geoffrey_Forest you go to the plugins tab, then it should have one called TweakAtZ, gives you the ability to change alot of settings depending on z height, its really usefull only found it today

I just downloaded the new Cura, haven’t used Cura in like a year but I was impressed with the settings available. Lots of things I want to try out so I may be switching over for a while.

@AlohaMilton the new one as in 2.x?

3.0.4 is the one I downloaded yesterday, no idea what is different.

@AlohaMilton oh, I belive im using 1.5.6 (could be 2.5.6, I honestly dont know), do they still only have the preloaded configs with no way to load your own? I know that was a problem when I tried to upgrade, that and their really limited contols on the new version led me to stay with the old one

@Matthew_Del_Rosso they allow you to kind of make your own configs without bullshit XML files again. For the longest time they claimed that they ā€˜couldn’t’ support Deltas – I think Ultimaker is trying their best to push everyone out of the game and make Cura a ultimaker-only thing.

I found I could set up a custom printer easily, delta fully supported. Last time I tried it there was no delta support so they fixed that mistake. There are a bunch of pre configs still, in 3 sections. Ultimaker has a section for all its printers, then there is another with Custom FDM printer, you can add your own there. it seems to support the basics needed, home location and axis type and location. Toolhead geometry offsets for multiple prints clearance etc. The third section is 3rd party cheap to midrange desktop printers, Creality CR-10 etc.

@ThantiK I typed then deleted a few rants about capital investment hurting products, using acquisitions as leverage in marketplaces. Ultimaker seems to have at first tried to leverage hardware sales by limiting the software.

The software that had widespread use, that people just looked at, alot…

Sort of like some other things that are downloaded, looked at and used, and are valued for the ability through them to create a brand that does little other than connect one thing to another yet is worth billions.

Hardware centric had a go, but the software being used by everyone that is buying cheap printers makes a huge pervasive middle brand in the market. this is more valuable long run. hopefully it means the company is actually going to try and provide services in both markets long term and isn’t trying to own the next 15 months of hype and let basicly anyone less a dick takeover after that.

It’s a slicer, not magic, there are other options, the hardware sales leverage was just rediculous, doubt it moved the dial at all.

Argh, ThantiK has inspired another rant out of me, what else is new :stuck_out_tongue:

@ThantiK how does the GCode differ on a delta- should be the same or?

@ThantiK ya, which is why I kept the old version. Im going to take a look at the new version on my laptop and see whats up

This plugin works only with legacy Cura (up to Cura 15.04). That is according to the developer’s description.

@Ulrich_Baer , I was given some excuse…as to the new code base not being compatible or some such nonsense. After I made a fuss about it, about a week later they added delta support again.