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Programs

If you want to use your own computer at home or during exercises, you will necessarily need these programs:

Additionally, you might find these useful:

Installation on Linux

The recommended Linux distribution is Fedora, because it contains all these tools in the repositories (except netfabb and KISSlicer, which are not open-source, but you can find those in the popular RPM Fusion repository).

To control the printer, your user needs to be able to access USB through the serial interface, which in most Linux distributions means adding the user to the dialout group. However, this won’t be necessary during exercises.

Fedora

  • To install all tools and applications: # dnf install openscad-MCAD printrun slic3r admesh-devel admeshgui cloudcompare meshlab cura admeshgui
  • Only the essentials: # dnf install printrun slic3r openscad admesh-devel
  • netfabb Basic and KISSlicer can be found in the RPM Fusion repository as netfabb-basic and kisslicer respectively

Use a supported version of Fedora, otherwise you will have old versions of programs.

Other distributions

There is a certain probability that some of these programs are available through your distribution’s package management system. If you don’t find them in the distribution, follow the instructions on the application’s website.

Installation on macOS

On OS X, we have prepared a pre-compiled version of Pronterface that you just need to download and run (see links below).

Another option is to install (download) and run directly from the application’s source code (links in the Linux section).

ADMesh needs to be compiled the same way as on Linux, or you can use homebrew. The same applies to ADMeshGUI.

Netfabb needs to be downloaded from our GitHub.

Other software always has a macOS version available for download on the program’s website.

Installation on Windows

For Windows, all software, with a few exceptions, is prepared in a pre-compiled version. In most cases, on the program websites listed above.

Exceptions:

Netfabb Basic: You can use the Official Trial version for Windows, which works as Basic after expiration, or an older version of Netfabb Basic from our GitHub.

For connecting some printers, you need to install various drivers. However, this is not necessary during exercises.