Rui CarmoI bought a Prusa kit on October 2014, and have been merrily twiddling its various bits over the years with considerable delight, since it’s a nice, slow(ish) hobby.
I’ve since been using quite a few more printers, and this page has a few resources I’ve found useful.
Resources
| Category | Date | Link | Notes |
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| CAD | 2025 | Chili3D | a 3D CAD application for online design |
| Guides | 2014-07 | Troubleshooting Pictorial Guide | |
| Calibration Guide | |||
| Print Quality Troubleshooting Guide | |||
| Management | 2016-07 | OctoPi | My current solution for both submitting jobs and minding the printer remotely using a Raspberry Pi |
| Slicing | 2015-02 | Slic3r | A Perl STL to gcode translator |
| Cura | The nicest slicer software for the Mac. |
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| 2025 | AutoForge | a Python Hueforge helper |
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| S4_Slicer | a generic non-planar slicer that uses the S3 algorithm |
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| Kromacut | an open-source Hueforge alternative |
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| Tools | 2014-07 | RepRap Utilities | A bunch of tools to do useful calculations |
| 2023 | FusionGridfinityGenerator | a Gridfinity plugin for Fusion 360 |
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| 2024 | Spoolman | A spool manager for OctoPrint and Klipper/Moonraker |
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| 2025 | Skapa | generate 3D printable models for IKEA SKADIS pegboards |
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| PrintGuard | a local AI print failure monitoring system that can run on a Raspberry PI 4 |
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| Viewers | 2014-07 | thingiview | JavaScript STL file viewer |