OctoPrintPlugin

Cura plugin which enables printing directly to OctoPrint and monitoring the progress

This plugin started out as a fork of the UM3NetworkPrinting plugin: https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/tree/2.4/plugins/UM3NetworkPrinting

Installation

• Marketplace (recommended): The plugin is available through the Cura Marketplace as the OctoPrint Connection plugin
• Manually: Download or clone the repository into [Cura configuration folder]/plugins/OctoPrintPlugin The configuration folder can be found via Help -> Show Configuration Folder inside Cura.

How to use

• Make sure OctoPrint is up and running, and the discovery plugin is not disabled
• In Cura, add a Printer matching the 3d printer you have connected to OctoPrint
• Select "Connect to OctoPrint" on the Printers pane of the preferences.
• Select your OctoPrint instance from the list and enter the API key which is available in the OctoPrint settings.
• From this point on, the print monitor should be functional and you should be able to switch to "Print to Octoprint" on the bottom of the sidebar.

Notes on UltiGCode (Ultimaker 2/Ultimaker 2+)

The Ultimaker 2(+) family uses a flavor of GCode named UltiGCode. Unfortunately printing using UltiGCode flavor does not work when printing over the USB connection. That is why using OctoPrint does not work with UltiGCode flavor.

zeroconf

This plugin contains a submodule/copy of the python zeroconf module as maintained by jstasiak. Python-zeroconf is licensed under the LGPL-2.1: https://github.com/jstasiak/python-zeroconf The module is included in the OctoPrintPlugin to replace the version that ships with older versions of Cura because that version has bugs.

ifaddr

This plugin contains a submodule/copy of the python ifaddr module as maintained by pydron. ifaddr is licensed under the MIT license: https://github.com/pydron/ifaddr The module is included in the OctoPrintPlugin because it is a dependency of python-zeroconf and it is not included with older versions of Cura