README.md

MatterControl

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MatterControl is an open-source program designed to control and enhance the desktop 3D printing experience. It's designed to help you get the most out of your 3D printer - making it easy to track, preview, and print your 3D parts. Development of MatterControl is sponsored by MatterHackers and it's partners.

Features

• Integrated slicing engine MatterSlice
• Library for managing your STL files
• Built in profiles for a plethora of different printers.
• Built in editing tools along with plugins for creating text, images, and braille.
• Queue of items you are going to print, and history of items you have printed.
• 2D/3D preview of the sliced object.
• Advanced printer controls, including the ability to make adjustments while printing.
• Software based print leveling.
• Remote monitoring of your printer, along with SMS/email notifications when your print is completed.

Download

• Windows
• Mac
• Linux

Release Notes

Building from Source

MatterControl is written in C#. It uses the agg-sharp GUI abstraction layer. See this wiki article if you want to contribute code.

1. Checkout the latest source code and submodules:

    git clone --recursive https://github.com/MatterHackers/MatterControl.git
    cd MatterControl
   

2. Install MonoDevelop and Nuget.

    sudo apt-get install monodevelop nuget
   

3. Add Mono SSL Support - Copy in Mozilla Root certificates to enable NuGet and MatterControl SSL requests

    mozroots --import --sync
   

4. Restore NuGet packages - On MonoDevelop 4.0 or older you can install NuGet Addin. If you are on Mint, also install libmono-cairo2.0-cil. Alternatively you can run the command line NuGet application to restore the project packages:

    nuget restore MatterControl.sln
   

5. Optionally switch to a target branch

    git checkout main
    git submodule update --init --recursive
   

   As a single command line statement:

    targetBranch=main && git checkout $targetBranch && git submodule update --init --recursive
   

6. Build MatterControl

    mdtool build -c:Release MatterControl.sln
   

   or

    xbuild /p:Configuration=Release MatterControl.sln
   

7. Link the StaticData from your source directory to the build directory

    ln -s ../../StaticData bin/Release/StaticData
   

8. After MatterControl has been built in MonoDevelop it is recommended that you run the application via command line or via a shell script to invoke mono.

    mono bin/Release/MatterControl.exe
   

   If you'd like to log errors for troubleshooting

    mono bin/Release/MatterControl.exe > log.txt
   

   If you want detailed error logging and tracing

    MONO_LOG_LEVEL=debug mono bin/Release/MatterControl.exe > log.txt
   

9. In order for MatterControl to access the serial ports, you will need to give your user the appropriate permissions. On Debian based distros, add yourself to the dialout group. On Arch, add yourself the the uucp and lock groups instead.

    gpasswd -a $USER dialout
   

Serial Helper

1. Change to the SerialHelper directory

    cd Submodules/agg-sharp/SerialPortCommunication/SerialHelper
   

2. Run the build script

    ./build.sh
   

3. If your receive errors you may need to install libc6-dev-i386 for x86 compilation

    sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386
   

Help, Bugs, Feedback

For information on using MatterControl, check the MatterControl Wiki. If you have questions or feedback, feel free to post on the MatterHackers Forums or send an email to [email protected]. To report a bug, file an issue on GitHub.