3 This page is in the table of contents.
6 Cura is a AGPL tool chain to generate a GCode path for 3D printing. Older versions of Cura where based on Skeinforge.
7 Versions up from 13.05 are based on a C++ engine called CuraEngine.
9 __copyright__ = "Copyright (C) 2013 David Braam - Released under terms of the AGPLv3 License"
11 from optparse import OptionParser
13 from Cura.util import profile
16 parser = OptionParser(usage="usage: %prog [options] <filename>.stl")
17 parser.add_option("-i", "--ini", action="store", type="string", dest="profileini",
18 help="Load settings from a profile ini file")
19 parser.add_option("-r", "--print", action="store", type="string", dest="printfile",
20 help="Open the printing interface, instead of the normal cura interface.")
21 parser.add_option("-p", "--profile", action="store", type="string", dest="profile",
22 help="Internal option, do not use!")
23 parser.add_option("-s", "--slice", action="store_true", dest="slice",
24 help="Slice the given files instead of opening them in Cura")
25 parser.add_option("-o", "--output", action="store", type="string", dest="output",
26 help="path to write sliced file to")
28 (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
30 print "load preferences from " + profile.getPreferencePath()
31 profile.loadPreferences(profile.getPreferencePath())
33 if options.profile is not None:
34 profile.setProfileFromString(options.profile)
35 elif options.profileini is not None:
36 profile.loadProfile(options.profileini)
38 profile.loadProfile(profile.getDefaultProfilePath())
40 if options.printfile is not None:
41 from Cura.gui import printWindow
42 printWindow.startPrintInterface(options.printfile)
43 elif options.slice is not None:
44 from Cura.util import sliceEngine
45 from Cura.util import objectScene
46 from Cura.util import meshLoader
49 def commandlineProgressCallback(progress, ready):
50 if progress >= 0 and not ready:
51 print 'Preparing: %d%%' % (progress * 100)
52 scene = objectScene.Scene()
53 scene.updateMachineDimensions()
54 slicer = sliceEngine.Slicer(commandlineProgressCallback)
55 for m in meshLoader.loadMeshes(args[0]):
57 slicer.runSlicer(scene)
59 profile.replaceGCodeTagsFromSlicer(slicer.getGCodeFilename(), slicer)
62 shutil.copyfile(slicer.getGCodeFilename(), options.output)
63 print 'GCode file saved : %s' % options.output
65 shutil.copyfile(slicer.getGCodeFilename(), args[0] + '.gcode')
66 print 'GCode file saved as: %s' % (args[0] + '.gcode')
70 from Cura.gui import app
71 app.CuraApp(args).MainLoop()
73 if __name__ == '__main__':