Add your own printing platform to Cura!

As I previously pointed out in the german part of this forum, it is easily possible to add your own printing platform to Curas GUI so that it looks like this:

except that it is your own printers platform of course. All you need is an STL-File of your platform.

Go on as follows:

1. Save the STL of your platform in \Cura_15.02.1\resources\meshes or whatever version of Cura you have.

2. Open sceneView.py in \Cura_15.02.1\Cura\gui\sceneView.py with Editor

3. Change line 1327 from "filename = None"to "filename = resources.getPathForMesh('DATEINAME.stl'), with DATEINAME being your STL-Files name

4.Experiment with "offset = [0,0,0]" in Line 1330 to get the offset of your platform right. If your platform needs to be rotated, rotate it with Cura and save it again in \Cura_15.02.1\resources\meshes

It should now look similar to this

Greetings
Marco

Edit: Credits for this clearly go to the programmers of Cura, who designed sceneView.py in a way, that this can be done easily.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/25/2015 07:43AM by Marco R.