Re: need to run the windows version of cura for amd64

[Fred <fred@blakemfg.com>]

On 2/25/21 12:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I may have made a mistake, but I bought a dremel digilab 3d45 FDM
> printer, aka a 3d printer. A better printer in the medium priced
> category at a bit over $1800 from Amazon.
>
> I have the appimage of cura but that version has no knowledge of this
> printer, so it abuses it very noisily. The two major diffs are that the
> dremel apparently considers the right rear of the plate as home, whereas
> the ender3 I also have uses the left front corner as home.
>
> They have an adapted version of cura for a free download, but only in
> Win64 and mac os versions, no appimages in sight.
>
> So, what is the best winderz emulator we have, to run this:
>
> Dremel3DSlicer-1.2.3-win64.exe
>
> Which file says is a:
>
> Dremel3DSlicer-1.2.3-win64.exe: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS
> Windows, Nullsoft Installer self-extracting archive
>
> I have no experience wrangling wine or whatever.
>
> Thanks all;
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
Hi Gene,

Several years ago I needed a Windows emulator to run a pal programmer. 
I found that the application program would run fine with wine but it 
expected to load a custom hardware driver which Linux would not allow. 
I think you are going to run into the same problem with your printer.  I 
believe wine will work with serial and parallel ports if the application 
goes through Linux but a custom driver won't work.

There is a commercial version of wine called Crossover which is not 
unreasonably expensive.  I suggest you check with them on the state of 
application program drivers. www.codeweavers.com

Best regards,
Fred