CubePro FIRMWARE Hacking

[TommyDee]

Understood. These closed systems are a pain. I accepted this because I need a reliable setup. The cost of cartridges quickly had me hoping for a hack. Before that, my Cubify experience was going to be very short lived. The hack for the Cube3 was a blessing and worked wonders. I was part of that effort in the day. The detailed solution in the code was quite elegant with a few limitations. The real limitations came into play when they tried doing this to the CubePro. The process of installing the F/W was the problem which took years to discover.

Then comes Tomuro with another solution. Just update the chips. I really liked this one. However, some soldering skills and a little coding skill will get you there. I knew nothing about this other than how to solder. Everything is now documented in the Tomuro-thread. As a DIY project, this is under $10. I now have a CubePro duo and countless Cube3's.

I like the Cube3 slicer and function. We've made this little printer behave with many modifications. We being the forum. Right now, the Cube3 is the most reliable printer I can think of owning after adding all the modifications. I don't like the CubePro slicer. It is a different animal. It is more geared toward industrial models rather than good looking models. The slicer has some very strange behaviors otherwise. Plus we cannot hack the lastest versions of the CubePro sliced files. We have to downgrade a long way to edit CubePro files or find a way to work with Simplify3D. I rarely run my CubePro.

3D printing is about submitting the right type of part file and understanding how gravity affects printing. The magic is in the making of your designs. That is a different discipline.

[jonb1]

Hi. I would kindly ask for some help. I have been searching on how to use 3rd party slicer and start printing on Cubepro Duo. I have firmware 2.02 on it.
I can't seem to find the encoder/decoder for the new 3DS slicer 2.02 so that I could figure out code structure of .cubepro files and then somehow encode my gcode files.

What would be the easiest way to start printing using 3rd party slicer software (whichever slicer really)?
Also is it possible to start printing with custom temperatures? From what I have read and understood on the web you need to hack firmware to set custom temps.

ps. I have successfully reset the cartridge chips, so I wouldnt neccesseraly need a hacked firmware.

[TommyDee]

First of all you want to be introduced to buddybu's cube3editor.exe here on the forum;
http://www.print3dforum.com/showthre...ht=cube3editor

Simplify3D is the only real compatible slicer with CubePro. It requires a dance with the files but buddy's editor will help a lot there.