I’ve found the excellent framework from Ultimaker (from which Cura is built) called Uranium, which is specifically for our use case, which is slicing 3D models. Plugins for extended functionality are easy to develop in Python, and I’m wondering if there is any interest in such a project? I’ve noticed that Fusion360 has a Slicer plugin (which won’t work for me in WINE), and read of a few other such projects, but it should be relatively trivial to implement a slicer for engraving and cutting using Uranium, which would take advantage of the very active Cura community.
Yes. This is the store page for Fusion’s Slicer. It is an amazing bit of software. I’ve used it several times to turn a solid object into something that could be cut and fitted together on the GF.
I believe that any STL or other file that fusion360 can handle can be sliced for 3D. I wanted something like that in Linux, but since fusion only runs in windows, and WINE doesn’t like the Slicer plugin . . .
So there is some interest?
@henryhbk I omitted Mac in my statements, sorry, I meant that between windows 10 and linux. That was an omission on my part, you are correct