Kai at 2017-03-18T08:12:59

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[https://ultimaker.com/en/products/cura-software Ultimaker's Cura] is a 3D printing software application that includes a 3D model slicer for generating Ultimaker Gcode.
 
 
=== Installation ===
Starting with version 2.4.0, Cura for Linux can be downloaded from Ultimaker as an [http://appimage.org AppImage] file, which fixes previous installation problems due to missing dependencies.
 
 
For Ubuntu 16.04, instead of downloading the Debian package from the Ultimaker site, you should use the [https://launchpad.net/%7Ethopiekar/+archive/ubuntu/cura PPA from Thomas Karl Pietrowski]:
<pre class="terminal">
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thopiekar/cura
sudo apt-get update
</pre>
 
After installing Cura through the PPA I encountered a problem in the Qt interface definition file
''/usr/share/cura/resources/qml/AddMachineDialog.qml'' and had to disable text validator on line 199 as follows:
<pre class="code">
186 TextField
187 {
188 id: machineName
189 text: getMachineName()
190 implicitWidth: UM.Theme.getSize("standard_list_input").width
191 maximumLength: 40
192 //validator: Cura.MachineNameValidator { } //TODO: Gives a segfault in PyQt5.6. For now, we must use a signal on text changed.
193 validator: RegExpValidator
194 {
195 regExp: {
196 machineName.machine_name_validator.machineNameRegex
197 }
198 }
199 //property var machine_name_validator: Cura.MachineNameValidator { }
200 }
</pre>
 
=== Profiles And Custom Materials ===
In Cura open the Materials section in the Preferences window. You can define custom materials and their print properties like nozzle temperatur and build plate temperature.
 
 
On Linux, the custom material settings are stored in ''~/.local/share/cura/materials''.

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