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Lee Labarre
(@lee-labarre)
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Cura profile for Prusa MK4

I print rc planes with my 3d printer. RC planes from Planeprint, Eclipson, and others use Cura as a slicer and provide specific profiles to print pieces of their planes. Unfortunately the MK4 is not included as one of the machines supported by Cura. As a result, Cura gcode leaves the MK4 in an unstable state after printing where it loses knowledge of the z-axis zero value. The only ways to recover is to perform a full hardware reset or print a gcode file produced by prusaslicer using an MK4 profile.

Any Cura experts out there willing to produce a Cura Prusa MK4 machine profiles and begin/end gcodes, as has been done for other Prusa printers?

Posted : 27/10/2023 12:31 am
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JeanPierre
(@jeanpierre)
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RE: Cura profile for Prusa MK4

Would love this as well.

Posted : 28/10/2023 9:50 pm
Scott
(@scott-23)
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RE: Cura profile for Prusa MK4

Yes please if anyone knows how to do this.  I can't stand prusaslice.

Posted : 09/11/2023 12:03 pm
Hunter25
(@hunter25)
Active Member
RE: Cura profile for Prusa MK4

Ive found that Cura is my Go To slicer !  It always just seems to work.  I want to use Prusa Slicer, but it doesn't seem to be reliable.  Ive used several slicers, but only Prusa slicer has crashed on several occasions during a print.  This just happened recently. It's is fully updated.  Is that the problem ?  Anyway I'm printing a project with Cura and it is working beautifully !!!

Posted : 26/11/2023 2:24 pm
Freddy
(@freddy-5)
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RE:

Hi,

I have just got a new mk 4 and looking to Cura for slicing , has there been a solution for this yet? Its the universities go to slicer and I would like to use just one slicer

 

This post was modified 5 months ago by Freddy
Posted : 08/12/2023 4:11 pm
karl-herbert
(@karl-herbert)
Illustrious Member
RE:

maybe this page can help you: https://help.prusa3d.com/guide/how-to-import-profiles-to-cura-4-x-windows-macos_17848

wbr,

Karl

Statt zu klagen, dass wir nicht alles haben, was wir wollen, sollten wir lieber dankbar sein, dass wir nicht alles bekommen, was wir verdienen.

Posted : 08/12/2023 5:46 pm
Hunter25
(@hunter25)
Active Member
RE: Cura profile for Prusa MK4

I've discovered that by downgrading my printers firmware my alleged prusa slicers issues have been resolved. I guess its not the slicer, but the printers firmware !!

Posted : 09/12/2023 9:17 pm
jon-whit
(@jon-whit)
Member
RE: Cura profile for Prusa MK4

+1 to this. I use Cura 4.12 for 3D printed Eclipson airplanes and it would be nice to have a profile for the MK4.

Posted : 13/12/2023 5:01 am
Conor D
(@conor-d)
Active Member
RE: Cura profile for Prusa MK4

I'm having this same problem. Planeprint files can only be sliced in Cura so I can't print them on my MK4. Used Cura occasionally with my Mk3s, so I'm surprised I cant do the same with the MK4.

Posted : 10/03/2024 1:17 pm
Lee Labarre
(@lee-labarre)
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Topic starter answered:
RE: Cura profile for Prusa MK4

I posted a solution months ago.  See https://www.facebook.com/groups/planeprintpilots/permalink/1356968871625501/?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/titandynamics3d/permalink/1391537825069579/?

Posted : 10/03/2024 3:29 pm
JeanPierre
(@jeanpierre)
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RE: Cura profile for Prusa MK4

 

Posted by: @lee-labarre

I posted a solution months ago.  See https://www.facebook.com/groups/planeprintpilots/permalink/1356968871625501/?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/titandynamics3d/permalink/1391537825069579/?

 

Any chance you could post a solution here as well for those of us that try to avoid Meta?

Posted : 11/03/2024 1:21 pm
Conor D
(@conor-d)
Active Member
RE: Cura profile for Prusa MK4

 

Posted by: @lee-labarre

I posted a solution months ago.  See https://www.facebook.com/groups/planeprintpilots/permalink/1356968871625501/?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/titandynamics3d/permalink/1391537825069579/?

 

Great, thanks! 

How did that profile work for you? Any issues? 

Posted : 11/03/2024 6:11 pm
Lee Labarre
(@lee-labarre)
New Member
Topic starter answered:
RE: Cura profile for Prusa MK4

Profile enabled the Prusa MK4 to run the cura gcode without problems, and recover ready for the next print.  It is just a machine profile enabling cura produced gcode to print on the MK4 without problems.  The quality of the gcode is an independent issue.  I was able to print gcode produced by Planeprint and Titan Dynamics provided cura profiles without issue.

Posted : 11/03/2024 11:35 pm
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