CURAENGINE(1)

✨ CURAENGINE(1) — CuraEngine 🖨️💖

💅 NAME

CuraEngine — slicing engine for Cura 🌸

🦋 DESCRIPTION

okay so the CuraEngine is a C++ console app that generates GCode for 3D printers 🖨️✨ it was built as a better, faster alternative to the old Skeinforge engine. literally an upgrade bestie 👑

this is just the console app for GCode generation, no GUI. if you want the full graphical experience, go check out https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura 💜 that's the graphical frontend for CuraEngine, and it's giving main character energy 🎀

you can use CuraEngine on its own or plug it into other apps. feel free to add it to your project 🫶 but pls take note of the License 🙈

🧚 USAGE

💖 help

CuraEngine help

Shows the help message 🌸

🔌 connect

CuraEngine connect <host>[:<port>] [-j <settings.def.json>]

• --connect <host>[:<port>] — connects to host over a command socket, instead of passing info through the command line 🦋
• -j<settings.def.json> — loads a settings.json file to register all settings and their defaults ✨
• -v — turns up the verbose level so you can see log messages 📣

🍓 slice

CuraEngine slice [-v] [-p] [-j <settings.json>] [-s <settingkey>=<value>] [-g] [-e<extruder_nr>] [-o <output.gcode>] [-l <model.stl>] [--next]

• -v — turns up the verbose level (show log messages) 📣
• -p — logs progress info 📈
• -j — loads a settings.def.json file to register all settings and their defaults 🎀
• -s <setting>=<value> — sets a setting to a value for the last supplied object, extruder train, or general settings 💅
• -l <model_file> — loads an STL model 🧊
• -g — switches setting focus to the current mesh group only. this is used for one-at-a-time printing 🌈
• -e<extruder_nr> — switches setting focus to the extruder train with the given number 🔥
• --next — generates gcode for the previously supplied mesh group and appends it to the gcode of further models for one-at-a-time printing ⭐
• -o <output_file> — specifies a file to write the generated gcode into 💾

the settings get attached to the last supplied object, so it looks like this 👀

CuraEngine slice [general settings]
-g [current group settings]
-e0 [extruder train 0 settings]
-l obj_inheriting_from_last_extruder_train.stl [object settings]
--next [next group settings]
... etc.

⚠️ bestie, if you want to load machine definitions from custom locations, you need to create the environment variable CURA_ENGINE_SEARCH_PATH. it should contain all your search paths, delimited by a (semi-)colon 🫶

👑 COPYRIGHT

Cura_SteamEngine Copyright © 2017 Ultimaker 💜

this program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version 🦋

this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. see the GNU Affero General Public License for more details 🙈

you should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> 🌸

🫶 AUTHORS

this manpage was autogenerated from CuraEngine with the help of help2man 🤖

the opening and closing sections were edited by Gregor Riepl <onitake@gmail.com> 💖

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CuraEngine October 2017 💅✨ bestie, that's a wrap on CURAENGINE(1)! now go slice something iconic 🖨️🌈🦋