Linux version

New Cura should be out by the end of the month, it will be built on top of the regular Ultimaker Cura so should work fine with Linux and the latest MacOS.

Hi guys, any update on getting the Proforge 2S profile to the original CURA to have a more updated software? Thanks

https://github.com/snatella/makertech-cura-linux is available now with a release of Ultimaker Cura 3.6.0 for Linux with the Makertech Cura 3.6.2 resources.

Ultimaker Cura on Linux is either AppImage or Docker based (new with 4.X I believe). The Docker setup is more complex, so for now I'm repacking the AppImage. As it stands the Makertech Cura 3.6.2 resources don't work with Cura 4.X so the repacker I've made is sufficient _at this time_.

Great! no worries, glad to have you back.

@Adrián Chacón Ordóñez @Molotov Apologies for not being active on the forum guys, it's been a very busy past couple of weeks (we're working on a new project that should be released very soon).

Thanks for letting me know about the MAC link for CURA - it's been updated now.

As for the modifications to CURA feel free to use/edit anything you like (including our logo/artwork), it's all opensource. Everything that's integral should be in the resources folder.

Simplify3D profiles are on our to do list - just very busy at the moment!!

In the meantime you should be able to setup Simplify3D with the build volume (20x30x30cm for single and 20x30x25 for DSE) and default print values, the DSE doesn't need any special gcode from the slicer (switching is handled by firmware). It's just the nozzle offsets for tuning - but these will be unique for everyone.

So we don't have a word, then we should proceed and ask for forgiveness after!

There should be no problem as they are only configurations of cura, the rights are of cura, as long as we keep the makertech and Proforge name but declaring that it is not yours. The only part that could a conflict will be the images but you said you will not include that, as they aren't necessary. I don't know if there is a separate configuration for the printer and for the materials used.

@Molotov can your contact help us with this? getting this to be an official configuration? or giving us some light about the changes made to cura so we can apply this to newer version of Cura or even other softwares. Getting a PR will be the best for the future.

Thats great Molotov!!! Lets wait for @Makertech word.

@Makertech I've got a repacker that takes the official Cura AppImage and repackages it with the Makertech resources for the ProForge(s). I've taken them from the Windows 3.6.2 release.

Works nicely and gives a Linux AppImage with ProForge goodness.

Would you be OK if I included the Makertech custom resources in a github repository with the repacker script? Are the Makertech custom resources under any license I need to note? Happy to accept PRs for any other needed changes too :)

Edit: the Makertech resources are just the printer/nozzle/material/etc definitions - none of your logo work or imagery.

I got good news! the cura version you made for windows works perfectly great using wine hahaha xD. Also is impossible to download a installer for Mac from your webpage(both download links point to the same windows .exe)

I gave it a try to docker to compile cura but somethings seems wrong, I think i couldn't make the image run after configuring it. Why you choose cura version 3.6 instead of ?

Anyways, I'm back to melting plastic! but I will like to have an update about the pull request progress, and for the simplify 3d profiles @Makertech

@Makertech also what happen with the simplify 3d profiles?

Hello, @Makertech how is the work going with the pull request? I no longer have the Mac from work I was using to slice =S. So I'm wondering if you got some news about, I want to go back to my slicing & printing days! I really liked this software.

I have been playing around with cura build environment repository this days but still no luck. It a dependencies hell in ubuntu. I have been trying with the last 3 LTS releases (as appimagetool supposedly has a hard requirement of using really old packages) using virtual machines but still no luck and I got different results in each release. Appimage tools keep being a problem and a blank in my knowledge.

Now I'm learning docker and trying this way, probably the smartest move.

Whoever write all this guide is probably not using an debian based Linux, probably using CentOs as the docker image. Also someone updated the linux instructions some days ago in cura-build repo for ubuntu https://github.com/Ultimaker/cura-build/commit/254f8435c049ac4dc08ccb558fd51a6d80e5bc12 and in cura-build-environment https://github.com/Ultimaker/cura-build-environment/commit/dd910d83e98fd2fe02c1d441c4671726bcfe5757 in case someone wanna try.

Nice to hear that you are behind it. So they gave me an apple computer at work so I'm slicing with that computer now, finally got my first print =D. But definitely waiting to do it in Linux hehe.

@Adrián Chacón Ordóñez I also got stuck after trying to compile with the Appimage executable after many tries. The Cura pull request is definitely on the to do list, at the moment we're working on fine tuning further the profiles and there's also a material bug for the Dual profile that needs to be fixed, we know what's wrong just need to get round to fixing it, should be up in a week or so.