- Added articles for new initial layer flow settings in Cura 5.2.
- Added articles for Tree Support Trunk Diameter.
- Updated French translations.
- The Settings Guide no longer alters the width of other pointing rectangles in Cura's interface, only the setting tooltip.
- Added articles for Enable Travel Acceleration and Jerk.
- Updated French translations.
- Updated Czech translations.
- Updated German translations.
This update supports Cura 5.0. The interface is updated to mimic the new look, and articles are updated with Cura's new functionality. Also added a Czech translation.
- The interface when using Cura 5.0 now reflects the new look of the settings list.
- Added a Czech translation.
- The Settings Guide now loads in Cura 5.0.
- Fixed a parsing error when using conditional to conditionally show images.
- No longer use deprecated items in Cura 5.0 (except the category icons).
- Fixed crash if Cura's own QML fails to load.
- Added a lot of new articles for the new settings in Cura 5.0.
- Updated existing articles to reflect the new behaviour in Cura 5.0.
- Added missing replacement keys in the start g-code article.
- Updated almost all layer view renders with renders of Cura 5.0 (also when viewed from older Cura versions).
- Updated French translations.
- Updated German translations.
- The German translations have been completed.
- Added some information on the position of the build plate to the adhesion article.
- Updated name of Maximum Feedrate article.
- New German translations are available for 148 articles.
- Fixed some articles not displaying proper formatting in the setting tooltips.
- Added articles for Lightning Infill settings.
- Expanded shrinkage troubleshooting article.
- Added layer splitting article.
- Added explanation of new combing mode in Cura 4.12
- Added new g-code replacement keys in Cura 4.12.
- Updated French translations.
- Fixed a bunch of broken links between articles.
- Fixed a rare crash if trying to load custom articles for which no English translation exists.
- Added articles for the new Monotonic Order settings.
- Expanded the Alternate Extra Wall article.
- Updated French translations.
A small maintenance update to fix a few bugs and address some pain points.
- A new menu entry under the Extensions menu navigates directly to the preferences.
- The articles are now correctly displayed in the tooltips after switching printer types.
- If Cura's main window doesn't get created for some reason, the Settings Guide won't cause it to also crash any more.
- The diagrams for Slicing Tolerance are made more clear to understand.
- Updated French translations.
In this update, all images have been re-made using an automated method that allows updating the images more easily in the future. Many articles have been expanded with additional details.
- Most screenshots are now automatically generated, making it easier to keep them up to date in the future.
- The guide is now loaded in the setting tooltips by default, allowing users to find it more easily.
- The translation menu of the guide is no longer empty if modified with additional translations (for all of Cura's own languages).
- The Settings Guide no longer creates its own theme, causing mix-ups with the original theme and bugs in Cura's interface if it is outdated.
- Almost all screenshots have been updated to how they look in Cura 4.9.
- Most screenshots have improved resolution. Some are changed to show the result better.
- Added articles for new settings in Cura 4.9.
- Updated dozens of articles with more information and corrections.
- Updated French translations.
- Updated Czech translations.
- Improved linking between different articles.
This is a maintenance update to document the new features of Cura 4.8, with just some minor adjustments.
- If the window was already open but gets opened again, it will now be brought to the foreground and get focus.
- Added a preference to keep the window always in focus (modal).
- Update for new features in Cura 4.8.
- Added a glossary of 3D printing terms and how they're used in Cura.
- Updated French translations.
- Updated Czech translations.
This is a maintenance update to document the new features of Cura 4.7. The articles can now also show different content depending on which version of Cura the user is running.
- Added a syntax to allow articles to display different content in different Cura versions.
- Added a syntax to be able to hide outdated content when viewed on Github.
- Automated tests have been put in place to make it easier for people to contribute articles and translations while ensuring quality.
- Some very short articles weren't displaying paragraphs properly. They are now.
- Added articles about new settings for Cura 4.7.
- Added a Czech translation.
- Updated French translations.
- Another pass over some old articles has been made to add advantages and disadvantages of some settings that were missing them.
- In old versions of Cura, information only relevant to new versions is no longer shown.
- In new versions of Cura and on Github, information only relevant to old versions is no longer shown.
- Notices at the end of the articles are consistently bold now, not italic.
- The contributors page is redesigned to give all contributors an equal position, not highlighting some with a picture but not others.
This release adds translations of the guide, and new articles about the printer ("machine") settings.
- If translations for an article are available, a button in the top right corner of the article allows switching the language.
- Articles will now show their titles when viewed on Github.
- By default, articles will be shown in the language configured for the rest of Cura (if translations are available).
- The guide will no longer cause a (harmless) error to appear in the log upon starting Cura.
- Links to articles in the same category work again on Windows.
- The scroll position is no longer retained when switching articles.
- Added articles for the printer/machine settings.
- Added partial French translations.
- Added partial Russian translations.
- Added partial Dutch translations.
- Fixed inter-article links.
This release adds articles on common forms of print failure, including pictures of the actual print results.
- Support for Cura 4.5.
- Articles can optionally be shown in the setting tooltip in the main setting list, instead of Cura's own setting description.
- Articles can now contain checkboxes, which are stored as preferences for the plug-in.
- All images are now brute-force RLE optimised, improving loading speed and reducing file size.
- The menu entry now appears under the Extensions header in MacOS as well.
- Fixed possible bug where image links would break if another closing bracket appears in the same paragraph.
- Fixed building with CMake if you didn't have Mistune cloned from an earlier build.
- Added articles about print problems, their causes and how to fix them with Cura settings.
- Added pictures of print results for settings where layer view doesn't adequately show the result.
- Added articles for the new settings in Cura 4.5.
- A new "article" has been added for Settings Guide preferences.
- The article files are now subdivided by category, so that they can more easily be found with a browser.
- Fixed a dozen broken links in various articles.
- Added pictures for fuzzy skin articles.
In this release the aim was to complete the articles for all of Cura's settings. No more missing links.
- Support for Cura 4.4.
- Added keyboard navigation with the arrow keys (once focus is in the article list).
- If an article is missing in a future release of Cura because the plug-in hasn't been updated yet, the setting description is now shown.
- Links to different articles now also work when viewed on Github.
- Images now also work when viewed on Github.
- The selection highlight in the article list is now animating when a different article is shown.
- The article font is a little bigger than before, for readability.
- SVG images are now rendered at the correct size, improving performance and image quality.
- Links are now coloured according to the theme, making them easier to read in dark themes.
- Italic text is now rendered properly.
- Fixed QML errors in the log when no article is selected.
- Improved performance of the search bar.
- The lazy-loading of articles is no longer triggered when the guide opens for the first time, but when opening an article, further reducing performance impact on start-up.
- Added 247 new articles about settings, doubling the amount of articles. This completes the entire settings list.
- The About page is renamed to Contributors and lists all contributors.
- Categories are now always expanded while a search is active.
- Fix packaging script.
- Fix loading the settings list in Cura 4.3 and newer.
In this release all setting articles were completely rewritten, and most images re-made in higher resolution.
- Articles are now stored in Markdown format, allowing greater flexibility in their layout and structure.
- Support for Cura version 4.2.
- Articles can now link to each other.
- Articles can now link to the internet.
- Each image can now have its own subtext.
- Articles can now be added about other things than settings.
- The plug-in will not load all articles any more during the loading screen, which would slow down Cura's boot sequence.
- All articles are rewritten. They now contain much more information on their behaviour and how you'd use them. On average the articles have about 2.5 times as much information.
- Almost all images have been re-made in a higher resolution, with better compression techniques to limit installation size.
- All diagrams have been converted to SVG for better picture quality and easier maintainability.
- An about category is added with information about the plug-in itself.
- Many corrections have been made to various articles.
This release adds many tiny quality-of-life features and improves the quality of images while further reducing download size.
- Improved performance of switching selected settings.
- The dialogue can now be resized.
- The dialogue is no longer modal, allowing you to use Cura while the dialogue is open.
- The image thumbnails grid has been reworked. It uses more of the page width if available and should be more reliable.
- The zoomed image is now always 2/3rds of the window size regardless of window size and screen resolution.
- All image thumbnails and zoomed images now have a white background, in order to improve usability in dark themes.
- Quality of image downscaling is improved, producing softer borders and fewer Moiré patterns.
- All layer view screenshots have their colour depth slightly reduced. The difference is imperceptible, but the file size of the download is reduced significantly.
- Improved installation instructions in the Readme.
- Removed slight transparency of zoomed images.
- Removed slight transparency of the logo.
- The categories are now properly hidden if necessary while searching for settings.
- Fixed a typo in the entry in the Extensions menu of Cura.
- The dialogue now scales properly on high DPI screens such as Apple's Retina displays.
- The theme of the Settings Guide should match the active theme of Cura itself more closely, if it changes any sizes or colours.
- Prefer Retract: Added description.
- Connect Top/Bottom Polygons: Added description and preview image.
- Minimum Wall Flow: Added description and preview image.
- Layer Height: Rewritten description and hints.
- Enable Acceleration Control: Corrected graph depicting relation of jerk, acceleration and speed. Improved description and added hints.
- Print Acceleration: Corrected graph depicting relation of jerk, acceleration and speed. Improved description and added hints.
- Initial Layer Bottom Pattern: Added hints and improved description.
- Display the correct setting when starting the settings guide from the context menu of a setting.
- Minor performance increases when changing selected setting.
- Updated the readme.
This update, Ghostkeeper has taken over development and made it compatible with Cura 4.0.
- Now works with Cura's own dark theme. Some images still show a white-ish border around the image though.
- Improved performance of settings list. It should now load an order of magnitude faster.
- CMake support allows developers to install their work to their local Cura installation more easily.
- Optimised images for smaller file size.
- Now works in Cura 4.0. No longer works in Cura 3.6 though, so please refer to the original author's plug-in for that.
- Images are no longer reduced in quality in order to reduce file size of the plug-in download.
This release fixes some bugs in order to make the plug-in more appropriate for public release. It is the first release to make its way to the built-in plug-in browser in Cura.
- Added a dark theme.
- Colours and sizes no longer adjust with the main theme file from Cura.
- The selected setting now correctly updates when changing the selection after opening the dialogue via right-clicking a setting.
This release is the original version by AlekseiSasin. It starts as a research project at Ultimaker B.V.
- An entry gets added to the Extensions menu that opens a dialogue.
- The dialogue shows the list of all settings in Cura on the right. Clicking on one of these settings displays a more extensive explanation of the setting. Some settings show pictures which can be magnified.
- Right-clicking on a setting in the main Cura window allows you to open the Settings Guide for that setting.
- Added more extensive descriptions for 244 settings, thanks to ElleCross!
- Added 143 images to explain some of the settings better.
- A landing page shows the first time that the Settings Guide is opened.
- A hidden page is added that shows the authors of the plug-in.
- Added support for PNG and GIF images.