Cura 3D Slicer For Beginners! In Depth Tutorial

hey what's up guys welcome back to three now my name is jack and in this video i'm gonna show you how to install set up and use the curious place for software [Applause] [Music] so hopping right into the video I know I made a video about cure a few months ago but it's a new and updated version of Keira and also I want to show you guys some more features and a whole in-depth process from installing having a finished g-code file so the Cure slicing software is one of the most popular sites or software's for 3d printers because first of all it's free second is super easy to use and third gets too great slicer I've been using cure for the past two years now and I had zero problems so far so cure is actually made but one of the bigger 3d printer companies called Ultimaker so the file that here our software online you can either search cure a software or cure Ultimaker so you'll see here says Ultimaker cure 3d printing software you can just click that and the page should show up so you can see here it says download for free this is cure version 3.1 you can see here all the different features it has and we can go ahead and click download for free and wants you to pick what you're going to use it for but you can just click I want straight to share any information and go ahead and download that straight away so hero works for Mac or Windows and as you can see here it downloads really fast you can click the install file all you do is simply drag ultimate guru Keira to the Applications folder or on Windows it should just show up with a box on how to install it we can go into our launcher and you can see here it says Ultimaker cure so we'll go ahead and click that and it'll open for the first time it may take a few seconds to verify on Mac but if this shows up you just click open and on the windows might be a little bit different might be a few extra boxes or buttons to click but just follow the directions and it should be pretty straightforward alright so here we go now is opening care of 3.1 should show this start up screen and it should take a little bit longer load for the first time but after that should load pretty quickly so when you open up a cure there's gonna be a little disclaimer and you can read it if you want and click I understand and agree there you go and this just shows you what has changed and all the different updates that they have done so you just click close and here's the newest version of Keira as you can see here I already have my two printers loaded but for the sake of it I wanna show you had add a new printer so it'll either ask you right away when you install here to make a new printer or you can go up here to the right and click Add Printer or you can go up to here preferences renders and add a new printer so I'm gonna go ahead and add your printer and if you have and ultimately if you select it here or you can go to a custom printer which is what I use for my CR 10 so I'm gonna go ahead and name my new printer and that's are you gonna just name this Prusa i3 and click Add Printer alright so there we go we have our new printer whose I 3 s gonna show up with this settings box so this is where you insert all your settings for your specific 3d printer so here we have the build sighs this is your build plate the X and y of your build plate so I'm gonna go 180 millimeters by a hundred eighty millimeters that the desta size your bed and this is Z is the size of how tall you can frame your printer I'm gonna go with 190 and the bow place and the build plate shape this is this is the shape of your build plate so you can do either a circle or a rectangle or square it depends on what your measurements are right here for x and y under here you can say the origin is at the center which means it'll think the center of the XY coordinate grid is at the center of your bow plate or you can put it in the corner which is what most people do so if you have a heated bed you can click the heated bed button and this is your g-code flavor would you only have to touch if you're just using a regular printer it should be Marlin but they're different g-code flavors here for different printers and I'll just leave this normal if your printer manufacturer doesn't tell you otherwise so printhead settings you can just leave this the same for now gantry height just leave up the same number of extruders you can change this to however many you have nozzle size and material diameter this is important if your printer takes two point eight five or three millimeter of filament you can use this one or you change it to 1.75 dollars your filament the nozzle size is the size of your extruder nozzle which extrudes the filament out onto the build plate point four is the most common so I'm gonna leave mine as point four when you're all done you can click finish and it'll save your printer here and there we go I have my Prusa i3 printer let's click close and there we go I'm now slicing on mypos i3 printer if you have more than one printer you can switch between each printer or super easily and Keira so you can zoom in and out on this pill plate you can right click and orbit where you can hold shift and right click and drag actually move up down left and right in the build area so this is a representation of your build places exactly where you can print as you can see over here on the right we have all of our printer settings over here and if you want to add more settings so you don't see a setting that you want to change for more advanced users you can go up here to the top and click Ultimaker Kyra collect preferences and you can go into settings and you can see here these are all the settings that here can allow you to change if you want to add one of these to your side toolbar here you can just click it and it'll show up on the side so here we have prepare which is pretty much the main home screen you can go to monitor and this is for connecting your printer to your computer and seeing live stats about it but I can talk about that in this video so I'm gonna go back to the prepare tab so again on the Left I'll show you what these do once we import a model and I appear we can click solid view x-ray view or layer view which I'll talk about once more when we insert a model so to insert a 3d model to slice there are a few ways you can either click open file up over here on the left file open file over here or you can simply just drag it in so I'm just gonna simply drag this into the build plate let go it'll load and it's gonna pop up right here in the middle of the build plate alright so there we go now our model is on our build plate so you can rotate it around this in 3d space and see exactly what our objects is gonna look like if we zoom in a little bit the red here is the overhang so if you have a lot of red or overhang you don't want to add support to your 3d model which I'll show you in a second so in default cura has the most used settings on the right toolbar automatically so we can go ahead and start changing these the layer height this is the height of each individual layer that your printer will print the point one is a really thin layer which will allow for high quality prints but I usually print at point two layer height and this is a combination between speed and good quality but the next option of change is shell so these are the walls that your printer prints that make up the outer layer of your object so the wall thickness you can see here is point 8 millimeters our nozzle and my printer is 0.4 so two of those is point eight so that means that the shell is going to be two layers around the top and bottom thickness this means the thickness of those layers are going to be two times our nozzle height that means two layers so top layers I'm just going to put two and bottom layers I'm gonna put two as well so we're going to open up the infill tab here and this is the percentage of plastic that uses to fill in your model as default it's going to fill it in with sort of a crisscross pattern you can change that in settings if you want so I'm going to change mine from 20% to let's go 15% scrolling down we can see a material this is this is probably one of the most important things you see here printing temperature this is the temperature of your nozzle so you're gonna want to look at the temperature that your plastic tells you to print at I'm gonna change mine to 195 degrees Celsius and I'm gonna leave my bill a actually at sixty degrees Celsius which is about normal for PLA plastics diameter here is the diameter of the plastic I'm gonna changes to 1.75 flow rate is how much plastic the printer pushes out so I always leave us at a hundred percent for now and I would definitely enable retraction this allows your printer to take out the plastic and push it back in your hot end to allow for a more clean print moving down the speed that this is how fast or slow your printers gonna print the object so right now have it set at 60 millimeters per second that's a pretty fast speed I'm gonna bump it down to 50 and that's pretty much normal now travel speed is how fast it'll travel between when it's not printing under 20 millimeters is fine moving down maple print cooling this allows your fan to constantly be calling the print they'll definitely leave that on as you will get better results so as I said before if the object has read underneath of it like right here you might want to consider adding support so I would add support on this model because there's a lot of overhang and I'll just click generate support and you'll see here support placement everywhere means everywhere in the model that there's overhang it'll put support or you can change that to touching build plate and this will only add support for places where the model is touching the build plate and from the build plate to the chin moving down we have build plate adhesion this is how the model will stick to the bed so right here we have a brim which is just a few layers around the model itself we have skirt which is what I'll use is just a few layers that go around the model just a prime the nozzle and get it ready to print or you can click raft which prints a small sheet of plastic below the object but to ensure that it sticks to the bed once you're done you can just peel that raft off the model once you finish printing so special modes is nothing for now you can just leave that so these were the custom settings these were more of the advanced settings that you can change to dial under print perfectly but if you don't want to use these custom settings and you're more of a beginner you can go into the recommended tab you can just adjust these basic settings here to get me a decent print so this we can see here a layer height begin to eat the print speed and the infill percentage support and boat plate adhesion these are just a few quick little options that if you're beginner and want to start printing right away you can use these in Kira but I like to use a custom settings you guys get to control your printer more and you'll get a better print over here on the left we can see our object and we can click on it and right now we are in the move tool so we can move our object around the bed by just dragging or we can change the x y&z position right here if we right click and you wear the build space we can Center the model we can delete it or we can multiply it furthermore on the left we can click scale and this allows us to make our object bigger or smaller so you can grab one of these and make it smaller or larger so I think right about there is a good size that looks good and and also you want to click a uniform scaling which which means all the x y&z are going to scale together so it's so stay is the same shape as make it bigger or smaller over here on the Left we have rotate which allows us to move our model we can grab one of these rings and twist it there we go over here we have Mir we can you can mirror model in it in a direction or we can click per model settings and it allows you to change the settings for different models if you're printing more than one once you're done with all these settings we can see over here in the right bottom corner it's going to take approximately an hour and 31 minutes to print use 5.63 metres of filament which is 16 grams and up you're in the right we can see we're looking at the solid view alright so we can go up here to x-ray view now you can see the our model for one of the most useful tools and cure we can click lair view this will show you exactly every single layer and move that the printer will make so you can either click play it'll go through exactly how the printer will print or we can drag the slider bar and we can see a layer by layer how the printer is going to print our object so here we can just drag up to the infill the perimeter and the support being built up and we can see it building our Yoda head so once we're done with slicing we can go back to solid view and we can click save to file and then save it to our SD card so as you can see here is pretty simple and it's a very powerful tool for slicing 3d models so a big guys like the video and learn something if you did please give a thumbs up subscribe to more 3d printing videos comment down below if you have any questions and I'll see you guys in the next video [Music]

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Length: 14min 58sec (898 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 02 2018