June 28, 2017 at 11:53AM

Reddit scan:This is a re-post of a post I made in Ultimaker's forum. I'm somewhat fresh with 3D printing. I was hoping someone can provide me with some guidance as to creating a printer profile in Cura.I'm supporting a makerspace that is part of our community library. We deployed 3D printing with Tinkerine DittoPros. Although these were good machines, it was obvious that they were missing some integral features. We recently purchased an Ultimaker 2 in hopes to move in this direction.It would be very beneficial for us if we were able to streamline the software that we use with our two printer models. We offer workshops on how to use our printers and if we could get away from having to use the Tinkerine Suite for our DittoPro and Cura for our ultimaker I believe it will be a big plus for us.The QuestionI'm having difficulty creating a printer profile in Cura. I'm pretty sure my issue stems from the Start and end GCodes.I tried the profiles provided by tinkerine's support, but they didn't seem to work. I also went into the Tinkerine Suite program file and found a preferences file with start and end gcodes and used those and they also did not work.The start and end gcodes I obtained from the preference file are located below.Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can start to define my printer profile? At this point I'm not even sure what information I should be providing.Thanks!start.gcode = ;Sliced {filename} at: {day} {date} {time};Basic settings:; Layer height: {layer_height} ; Walls: {wall_thickness} ; Fill: {fill_density} ; Speed: {print_speed} ; Temperature: {print_temperature} ; Filament Diameter: {filament_diameter} ; Support Structures: {support} ; Support Angle: {support_angle};Print time: {print_time};Print weight: {filament_weight}gG1 Z0.2 E0 F2000G1 X65 E7 F1500G1 X12 Y2 E14 F1500G92 E0;G1 E-3 F1000end.gcode = ;End GCodeM104 S0 ;extruder heater offM140 S0 ;heated bed heater off (if you have it)G91 ;relative positioning;G1 E-1 F300 ;retract the filament a bit before lifting the nozzle, to release some of the pressure;G1 Z+0.5 E-5 X-20 Y-20 F{travel_speed} ;move Z up a bit and retract filament even moreG1 Z0.2 E-4 F2000 ;move Z up a bit and retract filament even moreG4 P600 ; dwell time of 900 msG28 X0 Y0 ;move X/Y to min endstops, so the head is out of the wayG91; use relativeG1 Z80 F3000; drop 80mmM106 S0; turn off fanM84 ;steppers offG90 ;absolute positioningpreswitchextruder.gcode =postswitchextruder.gcode =replace.csv = ;LAYER:1 ;LAYER:1 M104 S220 http://ift.tt/2uiy0es by Towson Makerspace