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I've been using Cura as a slicer for my Anycubic Kobra since I got it a few months ago. After a few weeks I discovered octoprint which was amazing as it let me start and monitor print jobs whilst out and about.

Cura has been great for me but I'm growing tired of needing to copy my print profiles from machine to machine on different OSes to slice my STL files. Is anyone aware of any self hosted web based slicers I could use to sidestep this problem?

I would be willing to live without an octoprint plugin and manually download and upload the gcode files to my printer if needed, I just want to be able to slice from wherever I am and kick off the print from wherever I am.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't have specific advice, but I am genuinely curious about what your circumstance is that you:

  • are yourself away from the printer so often,
  • have ready access to the STLs you need,
  • have access to a machine with slicing software,
  • and cannot start the print when you return

Legit question, because knowing the situation might prompt better feedback. Or if this is a case of "it would be cool to do so, just because I can..." then carry on and ignore my post lol!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Very fair question and I'll admit that a part of it genuinely is "because I can!" But that's not all of the reason. I work across several machines and soon due to reasons that at the same time both make sense and are somewhat frustrating some of the machines I use most frequently are about to be locked down and my ability to instal software removed, so that is part of it. Web apps allow me to sidestep this issue. I'm a bit of a forgetful person that has to act when inspiration hits me or I forget to deal with it. Sometimes that's probably for the best but other times a moment of inspiration has turned into something wonderful (both in the 3D printing scenario and wider life) Most of my homelab setup is web-based already and I have most of my files synchronised around to allow me easy access no matter where I am or what device I'm on, I also work long days away from home now and then and like the idea of having an idea, processing the stl file and then kicking off a print job so it's complete by the time I get back home. In the end I guess my big motivator here is due to my own personal failings, I'm an impatient and forgetful person that would rather just get stuff done than improve my memory and patience ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So would it not be useful to attack this a different way?

Something that you can upload files to that triggers a job that sends it to a slicing machine, or something like that?

What I mean to say is have you thought of skinning this cat any other way?

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