blog/data/2017-10-09-reprap-cura.txt

   1 Title: Generating 3D prints in Debian using Cura and Slic3r(-prusa)
   2 Tags: english, 3d-printer, debian
   3 Date: 2017-10-09 10:50
   4
   5 <p>At my nearby maker space,
   6 <a href="http://sonen.ifi.uio.no/">Sonen</a>, I heard the story that it
   7 was easier to generate gcode files for theyr 3D printers (Ultimake 2+)
   8 on Windows and MacOS X than Linux, because the software involved had
   9 to be manually compiled and set up on Linux while premade packages
  10 worked out of the box on Windows and MacOS X.  I found this annoying,
  11 as the software involved,
  12 <a href="https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura">Cura</a>, is free software
  13 and should be trivial to get up and running on Linux if someone took
  14 the time to package it for the relevant distributions.  I even found
  15 <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/706656">a request for adding into
  16 Debian</a> from 2013, which had seem some activity over the years but
  17 never resulted in the software showing up in Debian.  So a few days
  18 ago I offered my help to try to improve the situation.</p>
  19
  20 <p>Now I am very happy to see that all the packages required by a
  21 working Cura in Debian are uploaded into Debian and waiting in the NEW
  22 queue for the ftpmasters to have a look.  You can track the progress
  23 on
  24 <a href="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=3dprinter-general%40lists.alioth.debian.org">the
  25 status page for the 3D printer team</a>.</p>
  26
  27 <p>The uploaded packages are a bit behind upstream, and was uploaded
  28 now to get slots in <a href="https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">the NEW
  29 queue</a> while we work up updating the packages to the latest
  30 upstream version.</p>
  31
  32 <p>On a related note, two competitors for Cura, which I found harder
  33 to use and was unable to configure correctly for Ultimaker 2+ in the
  34 short time I spent on it, are already in Debian.  If you are looking
  35 for 3D printer "slicers" and want something already available in
  36 Debian, check out
  37 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/slic3r">slic3r</a> and
  38 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/slic3r-prusa">slic3r-prusa</a>.
  39 The latter is a fork of the former.</p>
  40
  41 <p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  42 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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