Not everyone is keen on their devices being controlled by the Internet. I’m certainly not.
@Neil_Darlow It’s one thing to download them. It’s a different thing to have the machine RELIANT on it, and its yet another thing to Stream (?) the designs. Usually with no control over buffer size.
I live in America, in a reasonably good town. I have ATT uverse, and due to various reasons (lightning and support not doing their jobs) I was out of service for 5 days recently. It was completely miserable.
I know how reliant we are on the internet. Which is why I’m not keen to Increase my reliance.
I’m sorry it’s off topic again. My bad.
Do we need a new file format or better drivers? or new machines? or newer faster processors in those machines, or all of the above.
Can we start taking steps in the direction of a better slicer, and or a slicer that knows what the user and the machine needs better?
I don’t think it’s an off-topic thing, it’s pertinent to the slicing question since that’s part of the chain. I question the need for reliance on the Internet to untether 3D printers from computers. My 2D printers don’t rely on the internet to operate and my 2D printers are not directly attached to my computers either. Going ‘cloud’ is basically tethering the machines to a remote server farm more than anything else.