alexrj/Slic3r — Issue #129: Slic3r + Pronterface in Mac
Author: ambiguousphoton
Created: 2011-12-21 05:57:37+00:00
State: open

Hi there,
I had two different problems with 0.5.6 slic3r on mac:

1) In interfacing with pronterface, you have us use the following line for the opts command:

slic3r.pl --load config.ini --ignore-nonexistent-config

When I try to run this through pronterface, latest os x version, slic3r crashes. Looking through console gives me an error where it says that "ignore-nonexistent-config" is an unknown option. If I remove that option from the opts command, slicer runs fine.

2) Now that slic3r is configured, I load a *.stl file in pronterface and get the following message:

Slicing /Users/user/Documents/3d Printer Models/20mm-box.stl
['/Applications/Slic3r.app/Contents/MacOS/slic3r', '/Users/user/Documents/3d', 'Printer', 'Models/20mm-box.stl', '--load', '/Users/user/config.ini', '--output', '/Users/user/Documents/3d', 'Printer', 'Models/20mm-box_export.gcode']
Slicing: /Applications/Slic3r.app/Contents/MacOS/slic3r /Users/user/Documents/3d Printer Models/20mm-box.stl --load /Users/user/config.ini --output /Users/user/Documents/3d Printer Models/20mm-box_export.gcode
Input file must have .stl extension

It is weird that it says it needs a stl extension when I am loading a stl file right? Also, If I load slic3r manually create a gcode and then just load it in pronterface, the printer will home all the axis (like it says in the start gcode section of slic3r) but then it never actually starts printing although pronterface thinks it has started from what I can tell.

Thanks for your help!