Hi all !
Welcome to another update.
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Today, I worked with Cura. It won't be installed , but keep reading to the end.
And, at the nights end, I tried Tinkercad.
Cura
I needed to print a piece a bit longer for my bed size, but I knew that with a bit of an angle, it would be possible to print it.
I tried with Slic3r, but, the rotate function is not the best. You can't rotate while previewing the movement. You choose the axis and input the angle. I did put the piece at a 45º angle, but when previewing, it didn't show the supports, so I've decided I needed a new software.
After a bit of a search, I discover this forum post.
There's a package in Raspberry PI OS repositories for Cura. Just install it using
apt-get install cura
After install, you can execute it and it shows the splash screen (although is version 3.3.1 - a bit old)
It never executes. The crash reports appears almost immediately.
That was a bummer.
Reading more and more of the forum post, there's mention of an experimental AppImage of Cura for the Raspberrry PI 4.
We're instructed to go to a Github page for issues and to a Dropbox for the AppImage. The Dropbox has nothing. But in said Github page, there's the releases and our AppImage is there, for the Raspberry PI 4 - armhf file. At the time of this writing, Cura-mb-master-armhf-20210306.AppImage .
Just download it and give it execution permissions
chmod +x Cura-mb-master-armhf-20210306.AppImage
You need to install libgles-dev before executing it or it won't work
sudo apt-get install libgles-dev
And execute it
./Cura-mb-master-armhf-20210306.AppImage
and
And it's version 4.8.0
and here's the piece. It's from Adafruit's RGB Matrix Slot Machine.
Tinkercad
Because the print of the piece didn't go well, I decided that, the best approach for a normal 3D printer bed size, it would be to split the piece and find some way to put it back together using a screw or something.
So, and because I know that Tinkercad STL import is really good, I decided to give it a go.
And it works very well. It's not slow, it really is smooth. I've worked with it in my old computer and on the Big Sur and it behaves the same way. I'm surprised. I'm working with Chromium and it works well. Haven't tried with Firefox, but I expect to behave the same as well.
And this is all for today.
Still keeping "Netflixing", KODI sometimes, SSH and normal stuff. Still haven't tried Arduino IDE . Will try to fix the VPN next friday.