This week Ultimaker released Cura version 4.0. It's been in beta for a
while, I've been playing with it, but now it's officially released. So let's take a
look at version 4.0 of Cura and we'll compare it to version 3.6
on today's Filament Friday. This week's episode is brought to you by these
patreon supporters. And here's Cura version 3.6. I've used this on the
channel many times. I've got my calibration cube loaded. You can see the
settings on the side. This is the standard Cura that we're used to but now
let's look at the New 4.0. And here's the new Cura a 4.0. It just looks cleaner and
more modern than 3.6. And you've got a full-screen view of your 3d print. The
settings on the side. Well they're temporarily gone. And there's more
settings at the top bar. So let's dive in a little deeper and see what the
differences are. Always visible at the top is the profile selected, your layer
height, your infill percentage, your supports on or off and your bed adhesion
on or off. And from there you can click on this bar and you get the full
settings. Everything you want to change just like you had in 3.6. You can scroll
through this, change different settings and then collapse it if you want. Back in
3.6 the printer you selected the filament you selected are all up here at
the top. In 4.0 it's over here to the left in the top bar always visible
always available. In 3.6 you could click on the object and a menu of options
would show up on the left such as resizing it to 150% of its original size.
Same thing in 4.0. You click on it, you have the same menu it's just a little
cleaner looking. In version 3.6 after you slice the model you can go to the top
drop down menu and select layer view. From there you can scroll through the
layers or play an animation. In 4.0 after you slice it you now have a preview mode.
There's a button at the top and one down here next to save to file. Click on that,
get rid of your settings, and it defaults to the layer View mode. So now you have a
full-screen view to scroll through the layers or run an animation. In version
3.6, a color scheme chart to show you different layers and different features
would automatically show up in the layer view.
in 4.0 you have to select it from this top menu here and it'll show you
basically the same features. What I don't like is you can't move it so if you want
to see your model you actually have to move the model to the side. So I hope
they change this so you can move this chart anywhere on the screen.
In version 3.6 you can also select from the drop-down menu the x-ray view and
see inside your model. This can be very handy to see infill or different
features that may not show up in the solid view. In 4.0, x-ray view is under
the view types menu up here at the top. You select x-ray view and then you get
that same x-ray view that you had in 3.6 but now on a full screen. At the top
there's also a monitor button this is for the Cura Connect feature for
Ultimaker printers that have a wireless network capability. In the upper right
hand corner is the marketplace button. Click on that and the menu of plugins
shows up. These are all plugins that you can add to your cura 4.0. There's also a
material selection. These are all the companies that have materials already
set up that you can install in Cura. All the settings and everything else like
matterhackers has for it's a nylon G. In the upper right of that window is the
installed button and here you can scroll through all the plugins that you have
already installed or that were installed by default into cura 4.0. Cura 3.6
time details would show up when you hovered over the estimated print time. In
4.0 there's a little I button you hover over that, and it'll show you the print
specifications. There is one issue I did find one 4.0, could be just a bug, but if
you're moving a profile from cura 3 to cure 4, this works fine. You
could import that profile, say someone gave one to you and you want to use? That
works fine. But once it's in 4.0 and say you make some modifications you want to
send it back to that person that's using 3.6? It'll say it loaded but once you
import it it doesn't show up. It doesn't accept it. So three to four works but
four to three doesn't. Post-processing scripts is something I
showed in a previous video. It's right up here under extensions > post-processing>
modify g-code. And all the same scripts as 3.6 are available in 4.0.
Pause at height and filament change, two very popular ones Filament change, you
just select it, and then you tell it which layer you want to change filaments
at. It'll then remove or retract the filament and then scroll all of it out
so you can make a quick change and pause the printer. So all this is available and
once you select it the little symbol shows up down here next to the slice
button and that'll bring the whole menu up so you don't have to go to that top
menu. That's no different than 3.6. So overall, I like Cura 4.0. It just seems
cleaner and fresher and I like the full screen capability. And they fixed a lot
of bugs according to the release notes. So that's a good thing as well. So going
forward I think I'm gonna start using cura 4.0. If you use cure 4.0
let me know your thoughts in the comments below. March 29th through the
31st I will be at the Midwest RepRap festival. It's one of the biggest 3D
printing conferences in the world and it's in the middle of nowhere, Goshen
Indiana. We move into town and take it over and it's all 3D printing. It's just
awesome. So if you want to attend, stop by and see me. I'll have my $179 Ender 3
that I've highly modified and also my original $179 fabricator mini that I
bought three years ago. Maybe a few other things too. But stop by and say hi. So
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