How to Design Custom PronterFace UI

I designed this for Mike Kelly's dual Bowden extruder. This uses a new image.png, map.png, and script.py. If you want to design your own I will have a video on my YouTube channel soon, but if you want to have a 2nd extruder in your Cura User Interface download this .ZIP file. Unzip the folder and move image.png, map.png, and script.py into the PronterFace UI folder in C:/Programs/Cura/plugins/PronterfaceUI.

If everything goes well your interface changes from this


To this


The new interface has an addition for controlling the secondary extruder and controlling the temperature. EXT. OFF will turn both extruder 0 and extruder 1 to 0 degrees, and BED OFF turns the bed temperature to 0 degrees. All movement commands are the same as they were before.

 

You're my hero.

Are you going to dual extruders?

 

Of course! Not anytime soon but I did just make a dual extruder interface, how could I not XD

 

Let me know what route you decide to go. I've been working on a new modular carriage design that's a little easier to work on with better fan mounting. Right now I only have a cyclops/chimera mount but it's easy to adapt to the other hot ends

 

Videos Uploaded
Part 1 (Images)

Part 2 (Coding)

Part 3 (Interface)

 

how do you add the extruder off button and bed off button?

 

the zip fileyou uploaded only has image.png nothing else. where can i get it

 

i think i figured it out???
addButton(180, 0, 120, 'EXT. OFF', sendGCode, "M104 S0")
addButton(180, 0, 60, 'BED OFF', sendGCode, "M140 S0")

 

Perfect! Happy to see you did it. I actually have no idea how that happened, but I'll make a new Map.png and upload it soon.

 

thank you. keep up the excellent work

 

Never had a chance to get around to fixing the attachment in the thread till now. image, map, and script all updated.

 

I've had issues updating the firmware. Even the stock Robo Firmware creates an end error code in Arduino without modifying anything

 

@3DDP your issue has been answer here http://community.robo3d.com/index.php?threads/dual-extruder-firmware-arduino.16715/#post-95616

 

Hi, I have the windows Feb 2015 version of pronterface, and am not finding the PronterfaceUI folder anywhere, and don't have a cura folder in my Program files folder.

Do you know if there is a different name for where the UI files are stored?

 

Dear Marquis,

I would like to manage my robot arm with your custom interface. I have an arduino with reprap 1.4 and TB6560 stepper driver.
The connection working fine and the x,z,y axis moving. Unfortuantely the two extruder driver is not Just give some sound.
Would you please be so kind to help me?
Thanks in advance,
Regards
Istvan

 

This is nice. I liked the videos. Good Job ! I am using smoothie board v1.0 . Where to add these files ? I am not using Cura. Should I download it? I have done changes in configuration file. Just dont know how to add second extruder in pronterface. Please help .Thanks in advance...