Because Cura 2.1 is in beta it is to be expected that there are going to be a lot of small updates and tweaks in the coming months as users and community members discover bugs and glitches. Naturally, it wouldn’t be a beta if otherwise, often times these updates will end up triggering a new set of glitches and bugs. Last week Ultimaker released the first of their beta updates, Cura 2.1.1 and it was mostly minor fixes and glitches that most users probably didn’t notice. You can see all of the changes that have been made since 2.1 was released over on Github.
You know how your cat will avoid everything in your house unless it’s something that you need to use at that very moment? Like deciding that the day of your big interview is when it’s going to take a nap on your suit coat and cover it with clumps of cat hair, despite having ignored the coat for three days prior. I swear, I can go days or weeks and never have any problems 3D printing anything no matter how complicated or tricky, but the minute that I’m trying to print something on a deadline is when I end up with a frizzy ball of wasted filament that looks like something my cat puked up. It’s obvious to me now that 3D printers are just the robot world’s version of cats. We invite them into our homes willingly and spend seemingly endless amounts of money on things to make them happy, all for the promise of a small sign of affection that ends with physical wounds as often as not.
Anyways, don’t get scratched by your 3D printer: before you update your Cura 2.1 make sure that you backup all of your profiles first. In fact you should be backing up anything during a beta anyways, but I know how easy it is to get complacent about these things. If you already updated, and lost all of your profiles, then you’re going to have to try and replicate all of them, sorry. Although a user on Reddit mentioned that he was able to recover his profiles by loading some gcode files that he had saved. Make sure that you stop by the Ultimaker community thread where the Cura 2.1 beta is being discussed, there are bound to be plenty of tips and tricks to working round any glitches and bugs that you may run into. Discuss further in the Cura 3D Software Update Issues forum over at 3DPB.com.