Ender 3 pro

I just bought an ender 3 pro. And some people say u need a certain computer. Can u use a chrome book? Mac? Or u need a regular laptop. Like a dell. Or something. Im new to this. Thanks for the help

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gadget.iom over 1 year ago in reply to ntewinkel +3

Having lost a few prints to sleeping computers in the past, I would also strongly recommend the printing from SD option.
nowhere2194 over 1 year ago +2

I use cura slicer which is cross platform so it will work on windows, mac and linux. i do not know if there is a slicer for Chromebook though
ntewinkel over 1 year ago +2

I have one and I print from the SD card. As long as you can get the gcode file onto the SD card it really doesn’t matter what kind of computer you have. You’d need a computer to slice the object file into…

nowhere2194 over 1 year ago

I use cura slicer which is cross platform so it will work on windows, mac and linux. i do not know if there is a slicer for Chromebook though
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ntewinkel over 1 year ago

I have one and I print from the SD card. As long as you can get the gcode file onto the SD card it really doesn’t matter what kind of computer you have. You’d need a computer to slice the object file into the gcode file.

I think it’s even possible from a tablet using a web based slicer… but I’m not 100% sure on that…

I’m using a Mac Mini, with Cura slicer.
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nowhere2194 over 1 year ago in reply to nowhere2194

actually there is astroprint which is a web app that can slice print files. that should work on Chromebook
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ntewinkel over 1 year ago in reply to ntewinkel

Looks like Creality has their own Creality Cloud that can do it online: m.crealitycloud.com/software-firmware

edit: but not on my iPhone
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gadget.iom over 1 year ago in reply to nowhere2194

It looks like it may be possible to install Cura on a Chromebook. Haven’t tried it myself though, don’t have a Chromebook.

https://chromeready.com/4992/install-ultimaker-cura-slicer-chromebook/
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gadget.iom over 1 year ago in reply to ntewinkel

Having lost a few prints to sleeping computers in the past, I would also strongly recommend the printing from SD option.
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