On Friday 29 May 2020 17:46:09 andy pugh wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 22:14, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > wrote: > > if the stl file is carried to the printer, then cura or similar is > > > running on the printer. > > No, sorry, I forgot a stage. > > In my case Fusion360 and Cura both run on my Mac. Cura know how to > send the G-code to Octoprint. It can probably also send the g-code to > your printer, but it can certainly put it on an SD card. > > You can (sometimes) slice on the printer. And you can slice in > Octoprint, bit it probably isn't worth doing. Cura on the CAD Desktop > is the way to go. See Cura as a specialised CAM package.
unforch, neither Cura nor Octoprint can be found in the debian stretch repo's. What would that be called on linux? Thanks Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
