{"id":3337,"date":"2019-06-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:49:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T16:49:32","slug":"cura-creawesome-mod-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/justin\/cura-creawesome-mod-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Cura Creawesome mod for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently saw this picture on Facebook – amazing<\/strong> 3D printing results from the Creality Ender 3 using the Ultimaker Cura slicer with the “Creawesome Mod”:<\/p>\n

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This photo shows a “regular” Cura 4.0 print on the left and a Creawesome<\/em> one on the right. Image courtesy of Thirl Thompson from the Creality Ender-3 3d printer user group on Facebook<\/a>. Awesome indeed. Naturally I’d like to see the same results from my prints, but there were no Linux instructions yet, so I set out to figure out how to do this.<\/p>\n

AppImages and mods, wut?<\/h2>\n

The Cura downloads you can get for Linux right from Ultimaker<\/a> are AppImages. Basically bundles of software that can run on their own without having to install anything else. Super easy, just download the file, set it to executable, and run it. But how does the Creawesome mod install?<\/p>\n

The Creawesome mod is a zip file with a folder in it called “resources.” I just needed to figure out where to put it. I tried putting it in ~\/.config\/cura\/4.0<\/code> on my Ubuntu system but that didn’t do anything. The clue that it is working, according to this video, is that I should see a Creawesome mod splash screen.<\/p>\n