Ultimaker Cura 4.11 arrives with interface improvements and more

The release of the new version of Ultimaker Cura 4.11 in which the user interface has received improvements, as well as new modeling models, library integration improvements and much more.

If you do not know about Ultimaker Cura, let me tell you that this is an application designed for 3D printers, in which you can modify the printing parameters and then transform them to code G. It was created by David Braan, who after a while would work for Ultimaker, a company dedicated to the design and manufacture of 3D printers.

Ultimaker Cure It is characterized by providing a graphical interface to prepare models for 3D printing, which It is adjusted according to the model and the program determines the scenario of the 3D printer during the sequential application of each layer.

Main news in Ultimaker Cura 4.11

In this new version of the application we can find that a new Monotonic Top and Bottom surface modeling mode to settings to achieve smoother and more uniform printed surfaces, for example to create more aesthetically pleasing demo prototypes or to achieve closer contact with other parts if necessary.

In addition to this, we can also find that the user interface has been updated, Well, in this new version of Ultimaker Cura 4.11 more than 100 new icons have been added to simplify the identification of various operations, as well as the scaling of icons according to the size of the window. Redesign of the design of notifications and notices.

Another related improvement is the improved integration with the digital Library and collaboration on shared projects was facilitated. A new library search feature has been added, allowing you to search by project name, tags, and description.

Also when searching the visibility settings, the content of the setting descriptions is taken into account.

Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:

• Fixed a large number of bugs
• Fixed issues generated in builds with Python 3.8
• Added ability to write all 3rd party material profiles to USB drive for manual BOM update on XNUMXD printers.
• Descriptions for new printers and materials have been added.
• Added an option to show notifications when new versions of plugins and beta versions of Ultimaker Cura are released.
• The information content of the registry has been improved with information about authentication failures.

Finally If you are interested in knowing more about it, you can check the details In the following link.

How to install Ultimaker Cura on Linux?

For those who are interested in being able to install this application on their system, they can do so by following the instructions that we share below.

Generally for Linux, the developers of Cura offer us an AppImage file which we can obtain from the official website of the application. The link is this.

Or for those who prefer to use the terminal, they can get the package by typing the following command:

wget https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/releases/download/4.11.0/Ultimaker_Cura-4.11.0.AppImage 

After downloading the package we are going to give you execution permissions. We can do this by secondary clicking on the package and in the context menu we go to the properties option. In the window that was opened, we position ourselves on the permissions tab or in the "permissions" section (this varies a bit between desktop environments) and we will click on the "execution" box.

Or from the terminal we can give the permissions by executing the following command:

sudo chmod x+a Ultimaker_Cura-4.11.0.AppImage

And voila, now we can run the installer by double clicking on the file or from the terminal with the command:

./Ultimaker_Cura-4.11.0.AppImage

Finally, in the case of Arch Linux or derivatives, We can install the application directly from the Arch Linux repositories (even though the version is an older one). To do this we just have to type:

sudo pacman -S cura