Smoothieboard Z motors wrong direction in cura

When I got my printer mostly built and all the steppers hooked up I used pronterface to test them. When I pushed the up button in pronterface for the z steppers, they went down, so I inverted the pins in the config by adding " ! " . That fixed the direction .I'm using a smoothieboard by the way. I got ready to test everything to see how I need to set up the machine and used the cura that came with the smoothieboard. When I'm trying to calibrate the z to hotend gap the motors turn reverse. I push the "up 0.2mm" and they go down. I push the "down 0.2mm" and they go up. Do I need to re invert those pins in config to use with cura? I don't know why it works backwards from pronterface.

I´ve read that pronterface has it´s own settings to change stepper direction. When these are set AND you use the "!" in config, it turns out right ONLY in pronterface.

I guess, when you reverse the setting in pronterface and undo the "!" in config, the directions in pronterface and Cura are the same.
-Olaf

Ok that makes sense. I'm finding out now the dumbest part of this whole build is the software. I got the motors to turn correct, now I can't get the extruder to turn while trying a test print in cura. I downloaded slicer or whatever it's called and I dont see a print button nowhere. I guess it only .... I have no idea. I was able to resize a test cube in slicer.... Is cura the only software that actually prints something?

The extruder won´t turn until your hotend temperature passed a certain threshold ( 180°C?). But you can test the extruder stepper, when you plug it in a different port and don´t use filament.

I can´t say anything about slic3r, but Cura works fine for me.

The extruder works fine in pronterface, so I know it's not the stepper. The temp is reading 235c in cura.

I think because my z steppers, I have 2 , is on the bottom side of my printer and my bed raises up is the problem. That's backwards from most of the printers out. But there is no machine in setup like mine in Cura.

If they simply run the wrong way but otherwise xyz-orientation and homing is OK, then turn around the connectors of the z-steppers.

Prusa i3 has the same way of z-movement
-Olaf