Seamlessly integrate Ultimaker Cura into your workflow. Use it with industry-standard CAD software packages such as SolidWorks and Siemens NX, or develop your own custom plugins to meet your specific demands. The following shows a selection of features, improvements and bug fixes in Ultimaker Cura 3.0: UI improvements. One of the benefits of Ultimaker Cura is the ability for users to extend the core functionality of the software to streamline the 3D printing workflow. Users can experiment and deploy modifications to Ultimaker Cura to integrate different software, read custom file formats, add custom menu items, and more.

Website: https://ultimaker.com/software/ultimaker-cura

Cura is 3D slicing software from Ultimaker that prepares a 3D model for printing, suitable for use with students at Upper KS2 and beyond.

Cura is simple but powerful 3D slicing software produced by Ultimaker. The print profiles are optimised for Ultimaker 3D printers, but the softwre will slice 3D files for any 3D printer brand/model. The software supports STL, 3MF and OBJ 3D file formats and also has a function that will import and convert 2D images (.JPG .PNG .BMP and .GIF) to 3D extruded models. The software will allow you to open and place multiple models on the print bed (each with different slicing settings if required). This allows you to print multiple models at a time, making classroom management of the printing process simpler.

Cura is desktop software that can be downloaded free of charge from the Ultimaker website and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

We recommend Cura as the default slicing software for all schools as it is free of charge, powerful, quick to slice and very easy to get started with. Students in upper KS2 and beyond after some instruction can independently use the software to slice using the pre-configured profiles. However although simple to learn, the software contains over 400 expert settings, so more advanced users can tinker with the settings to produce prints of the quality they require.

Learn Cura

Cura For Maceverinsight Painting

There are a number of online resources available to help teachers and students to learn Cura.

The Ultimaker website contains a comprehensive online Cura Manual, containing everything you need to know to use Cura, it also contains downloadable PDF quick start guides. In addition to this, you can access a number of Cura Quick Start Video Guides on the Ultimaker YouTube channel.

Alternatively, you can book a meeting with our Education Specialists to discuss Cura Training and Advanced Cura Training.

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The CREATE Education Project use Cura as the default slicing software as it is free to download, powerful but quick to slice and simple to get started with. As each project may require different slicing settings in Cura, CREATE Education provide detailed slicing settings where required in all our project teacher guides to make learning and using the software even easier for beginners. We also provide a number of Cura specific resources to help you to learn some of the software features.

Cura For Maceverinsight Wood

Note: Please bear in mind that recently the Cura software has developed further and has a new interface. This means that the screenshots in our older resources may not appear to look like the current version – however any functionality described in the resource still exists in the current version.