Using CuraEngine to slice with Botqueue?

[crispy1]

I'm not a fan of slic3r, would it be possible to integrate CuraEngine/Cura instead of slic3r to slice files?  I've been able to get this working nicely with Octoprint on my Raspberry Pi, but Botqueue is more the functionality I am after.

[Zach 'Hoeken' Smith]

absolutely!  if cura can be called from the command line, then we can integrate it.  even better would be if you can export a slice configuration file as text.  i'm not familiar with cura, so i dont know how hard/easy this is.

if you are willing to get your hands dirty, take a look at bumblebee/ginsu.py - this is the file that has all the slice engine stuff in it.  you'll notice the generic ginsu class that handles slicing a file.  if you look at the Slic3r module, you can see how it sends all the info to slicer to get sliced.

the easiest way to do this would be to copy the slic3r module and create one called cura in this file.  i'll need to create an entry on the botqueue website with info on the new slice engine as well.  let me know if you want to do this and which what version of cura and i'll help you set it up.

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On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:06 AM, crispy1 <chris.pad...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm not a fan of slic3r, would it be possible to integrate CuraEngine/Cura instead of slic3r to slice files?  I've been able to get this working nicely with Octoprint on my Raspberry Pi, but Botqueue is more the functionality I am after.

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[crispy1]

Hi Zach,

Doesn't sound too bad!  I know that Cura can be called from the command line, and that it uses a single text file to hold its settings.

I'm not sure if this is something I will be able to do on my own.  I'm a mechanical guy, not a software guy.  So I know just enough to be dangerous ;-)  But if no one else beats me to it I will take a stab at this soon.