3D printer manufacturerUltimaker已经启动了其新的开源切片软件的Beta版本，库拉5.0。
根据Ultimaker的说法，最新的Cura具有增强的引擎，使用户可以在切片过程中部署可变的线路宽度，并达到“更精细，更快的3D打印的新阈值”。该更新还带来了其他许多升级（包括更大的M1芯片支持）之间的个人资料和用户界面（UI）的改进，因此它应带来采用者苹果最新机器是更好的用户体验。
Ultimaker的首席技术官Miguel Calvo说：“我们相信，即使是那些以前看过3D打印并得出结论的人，可能还没有准备好使用它们，今天是时候让他们再次看。”“到目前为止，您必须使设计工作用于3D打印。是时候转到桌子了……从设计3D打印到设计的3D打印。”
“ Ultimaker Cura 5.0代表了该软件有史以来最大的印刷质量飞跃。这是3D打印技术的真正革命的开始。”
Ultimaker’s software portfolio
自2011年成立以来，Ultimaker建立了一系列开放物质融合灯丝制造（FFF）3D打印机，旨在加快其描述为“灵活，增强和可持续性”生产的全球转变。
公司试图朝着这一目标努力的方式之一是通过引入自己的软件投资组合（包括其）学院，，，，数字工厂和库拉offerings. While the former are geared towards helping users upskill, and those with multiple systems streamline print management in addition to data gathering and part digitization, the latter is a modelling software designed for simplified slicing.
Available free of charge, as well as in the upgradedEssentials，，，，专业的和卓越包裹，Cura基于开源切片引擎。Built over years of in-house R&D and user input, the slicer provides adopters with the ability to either rapidly prepare prints via pre-configured profiles, or dive deep into its more than 400 settings in ‘custom mode,’ which offers granular process control.
库拉还提供与其他几个领先的CAD计划的集成，包括SolidWorks，，，，西门子NX和Autodesk发明家， 一个nd Ultimaker continues to roll-out add-ons that bring new functionality to the software, one of which has seenTeton Simulationlaunch SmartSlice for Cura，使用户在打印之前可以评估零件性能的插件。
库拉5.0的精密切片
Unveiled at the recentUltimaker展示柜on April 21, 2022, the latest Cura is packed with features designed to allow users to print with greater precision, and potentially even address new applications. Chief among these additions is the software’s upgraded engine, which now allows for the use of a variable line width when slicing a part model.
在以前的Cura版本中，线宽是由打印机喷嘴和所使用的设置的直径决定的。尽管这使得在给定的构建中可以实现一致的线宽度，但这也意味着，如果打印厚度为两个半线，则仅使用两个线，它们之间会留下很小的差距。与此同时，如果细节较小，较小的细节，则可能是无法打印的。
To overcome what Ultimaker calls a “common shortfall for FFF 3D printing,” Cura 5.0 instead increases and decreases line widths to create the most efficient tool patch. In doing so, the software is said to allow adopters to create parts with fewer gaps on the inside and improve their build quality, particularly in those objects with ultra-thin walls and fine surface details.
“Fine detail and small features are critical to how architectural designers accurately communicate design decisions,” explains architectural designer and Cura 5.0 adopter Carlos Castillo. “While much can be done by hand, it’s much better for the speed of the process when you can draw on software to deliver what you need.”
“I’ve been putting the new Cura 5.0 through the paces in my recent projects, and have been surprised by the features that my 3D printers can now achieve. This is a big development for the entire architecture industry.”
通过提供更高水平的填充零件，该程序还有效地使其更加稳定。用《终极制造商》的话说，这种强度的改善是在打印固定线宽度以前会导致“内部间隙”以及在极端情况下的固定线宽度的薄壁时，将是最有益的。一点都。”
Thanks to its new slicing engine, the program’s print profiles have received a further update as well, making them faster than ever before, and Ultimaker says that users of its machines can expect to see print time reductions of as much as 20%.
在其他地方，Cura 5.0具有改进的UI和改进的市场集成，这意味着现在应该更容易查找和安装插件和材料配置文件。Ultimaker还设法修复了影响Apple M1芯片计算机用户的各种视觉错误，使他们能够加入那些部署Cura的人，以解决新的设计，架构和工程应用程序。
那些有兴趣访问该程序的Beta的人可以download Ultimaker’s Cura 5.0 software现在通过github。
争夺切片至高无上
Ultimaker is far from the only 3D printer manufacturer to have launched its own slicing program, and plenty of others have now moved to establish their own software portfolio.rish3d有它的Ideamaker切片软件，构建的平台允许用户通过“一单击”参数优化算法跳过冗长的CAD处理步骤。
Prusa另一方面，提供了Prusaslicer 3D打印程序，另一个免费的开源切片软件。该平台先前称为“ SLIC3R”，具有清晰的UI，自定义支持功能和数量不断增加的材料配置文件预设。
除了机器制造商内部创建的软件外，专门的软件开发人员还提出了几个程序，旨在帮助用户优化其切片工作流程。其中之一是Helio Additive， 一个聚合物- 后面的初创企业，该公司最近发布了计划推出的计划输出和提高可靠性切片机，能够调整参数以防止打印故障。
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Featured image shows a Cura 3D printing software user. Image via Ultimaker.
