Is it possible to load gcode in cura 14.07 that was generated with slic3r 1.1.x? All I want to do is use cura to send the gcode to my printrbot to print the object, nothing more. It looks like it should be possible but I haven’t had any success when I try. Any guidance or tips are greatly appreciated.
Cura is not meant to be a host. It’s a slicer. You wouldn’t want to load gcode from one slicer into another slicer because…there’s nothing you can do with it. If you want to send gcode to the printrbot, you need to use a host. RepetierHost, OctoPrint, Pronterface, etc.
Technically speaking, Cura is a host, and loading, visualizing and printing gcode (which was previously generated with Cura) works just fine.
@Thomas_Sanladerer , as far as hosts go - that functionality is only there so that Cura is a one-stop solution for printing. There’s no jog controls, there’s none of the typical controls that would be available in a normal host application.
@ThantiK well, but it is a host. 
Fine! You win…
But I win too.
Being a Cura noob myself, the internet just told me this:
There is a way to access full controls in Cura, you just need to enable it in the settings. Go File -> Preferences and change the printing window type to the Pronterface UI.
This changes the print dialog from the simple one-line popup to a full Pronterface-style interface.
Though the print window is still only accessible when you have a file loaded up (by design, but i disagree with the design choice here. Manual controls should always be visible.)
Cura does have the pronterface UI with basic manual control options and a terminal console for inputing Gcode. That is really helpful. It also lets you load a model file with a .g or .gcode extension, but in my experience is only works gocde that was previously generated by cura. I was hoping this wouldn’t be the case but the answers seem to confirm that. (As an aside, I thought that Cura was the host software and CuraEngine was the slicer. I could be wrong, though, so feel free to correct me)
I switched to Cura because I run Linux and had a few instances where the mono runtime required by Repetier Host crashed, costing me hours of wasted print time and many meters of PLA. I would like to have the ability to use slic3r and cura as slicers, but not have to use mono to run the host program.
Cura is the plater/front end. CuraEngine is the slicing/logic behind it.