3D Printer Software
1.23 Printrun
Website: http://www.github.com/kliment/Printrun The host software,
Printrun, can be used to start up and control your 3D printer (Figure 1.19,
page 44). The host controls include: setting the extruder and print surface
Figure 1.18: Printrun application for 3D printer control
temperatures, manual control of each axis, and manual extrusion. The host
is also where you can push print files (.gcode) to the 3D printer or load
print files from the SD card for printing out model designs.
Installing Printrun
Printrun contains several different applications that can be used to con-
trol the Mini 3D printer. It can be installed on Windows, Mac OSX
and Linux based computers. Pronterface is the graphical user interface
for Printrun. Pronsole allows printing from the command line, and
can be used for scripting and some automation. Plater allows you
to arrange and combine several STL files into one. More information
on the other programs within the Printrun package can be found at
https://github.com/kliment/Printrun. Printrun can be downloaded
from LulzBot.com/support/downloads. Download the version for your
operating system and extract. You will need an archive manager to extract
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