Looks to me like they just want a quality slicer regardless of printer, and if other folks are willing to do the work for other printers they're happy to take it onboard. I got my change into the project pretty quickly, and even had feedback on changes they thought were reasonable (and I agreed with), so there was some back and forth and further development along the way. The only difficulty comes when the project maintainers nix or delay accepting changes that don't necessarily benefit the printers their benefactor company makes. Sure and I get where you're coming from, but that's the beauty of being an open source project. And from their point I would also agree that there is no financial incentive for them to assist users of other printer brands. I think the point I was trying to make is that Cura is designed to be used with one particular make of printer and the comments I have seen on their forums regarding other printer makers seem to imply that the devs there have no interest in the interaction with those other makes. I think it's worth testing out and exploring further. I may even get time to do it myself.Īs we say in the open source world, patches welcome □ sure! I mean, anyone is welcome to make an issue to suggest a change, or fork and make a pull-request with the material files to add. If you're just suggesting that we start adding materials to the github repo so they can be dropped in as configs as well. Aside from retraction defaults, it's one of the few material defaults it makes sense to set in the printer definition, in my opinion. I'm not 100% sure what you're meaning here it kind of sounds like you're saying the default material diameter being set was bad or wrong somehow, but that is indeed the default material diameter. Maybe we should add materials among the configurations? I've tried something like this with success: Then you can run G1 Z5, G1 Z0.15, etc, to move up and down and confirm that it is in fact moving as expected. If your host program has a terminal, you can test this pretty easily yourself while the hotend is cold and not extruding anything, just do the homing (G28 W), leveling (G80), then look at your LCD at the Z height (top right corner) or run M114 to get the current XYZ position the printer thinks it's at. You shouldn't need to home the axes again (G28), either. Adding a Z0.15 argument to a G1 move should, indeed, move the nozzle to 0.15mm above the bed, assuming the MBL has completed successfully.