klipper VS Cura

There is _a lot_ wrong with Marlin. It is a complex codebase, full with ancient artefacts, litterred with preprocessor ifdefs every 2-3 lines of code, dynamic includes in the middle of CPP files, etc[1]. It's about as unreadable as C++ code gets--well, I guess it's not template metaprogramming.

Klipper by contrast is a breeze to read through[2].

I am very grateful for Marlin, for all of reprap, and everyone who has contributed to it. But saying there is nothing wrong with it is straight up misguided.

[1]: https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin/blob/bugfix-2.1.x/M...

[2]: https://github.com/Klipper3d/klipper/blob/master/src/lcd_hd4...

If you have (like me) problems getting the auto reconnect solution mentioned on klipper https://github.com/Klipper3d/klipper/issues/835 running.

You mention you're OK with tweaking and just need a baseline config, so is there something wrong with the official Ender 6 config from the Klipper github ?

I have no clue about these specific TMC settings and/or the TMC5160s, but it looks like the PR was never finished, only partially without much testing. Also, for people not wanting to read the Reddit post, the PR is here.

Oh i was talking to the guys on the discord and they found this new PR by the same guy. Basically for the same things i think maybe just reworked. https://github.com/Klipper3d/klipper/pull/6139 It implements coolstep and dcstep. From the looks of it, its also sorta done just needs testing and cleaning up from the author? Im not really familiar with the process of merging pull requests at klipper.

But in GitHub we have commit names with 7 symbols - on this page https://github.com/Klipper3d/klipper/commits/master you can use search with 38e79df

How would you find which commit? There's heaps: https://github.com/Klipper3d/klipper/commits/master

Also what version of Cura? there was one version a few releases ago that produced gcode with really small moves on curves that lead to artifacts like this when using klipper. Here's the bug report version 5.3, it may have been still present in 5.4.

Are you using Cura?

As UltiMaker employees we focus on the motion controllers UltiMaker Printers uses and we are less exposed to the finer details of Klipper. But we are interested and want Cura and Klipper to work smoothly together. If you have any feedback on how we can do that, we are collecting input here: https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/discussions/16012

Full release notes and new Cura downloads can be found here https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/releases/tag/5.4.0

Quick update: Yesterday's Mac builds were indeed not properly signed. 🫠 It should now be properly resolved. 🎉 New signed Mac builds became available an hour ago. https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/releases/tag/5.4.0

This reminds me of this known issue we mentioned in the changelog: Support Brim is missing if the Buildplate Adhesion is set to None. We are tracking reports here.

We have 27 Creality printers available, but the K1 is not available yet. Since Cura is open source, you or anyone else is more than welcome to work on adding this 3d printer and create a pull request yourself. You can find instructions on how to add a new 3D printer definition here: https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/wiki/Adding-new-machine-profiles-to-Cura

Here’s the link CURA 5.4.0-beta.1

Okay, you are going to want to go to the link I gave above and scroll down to assets and click on the UltiMaker-Cura-5.4.0-beta.1-win64.exe link in blue. Or this link will should download it for you UltiMaker-Cura-5.4.0-beta.1-win64.exe