Installing MatterControl 3D Printing Software

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Hi @Bioethical,
I’ve just tested my 3D printer in Linux and it’s very to configure, you just need to follow the steps on the MatterControl support page.

I did the following steps (I have Linux Mint 20):

I installed mono’s latest version:

sudo apt install gnupg ca-certificates
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF
echo "deb https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu stable-focal main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

With the 3d printer disconnected from USB, I ran ls /dev/tty* to get a list of all tty but the printer

before
before1108×169 201 KB

I connected the usb to the 3D printer and listed again all tty to find which one is the printer

after
after1108×173 209 KB

In my case, the printer port is /dev/ttyACM0

I ran the command below to know the serial number of the USB device:

udevadm info --attribute-walk -n /dev/ttyACM0 | grep "serial"

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Found what was the serial port’s group:

ls -l /dev/ttyACM*

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In my case, the printer’s group is dialout

I added my username to the printer’s group:

sudo gpasswd -a $USER dialout

Next, I created the file 97-3dprinters.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/:

sudo touch /etc/udev/rules.d/97-3dprinters.rules

and I added the following code to the file, in my case using nano (sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/97-3dprinters.rules):

SUBSYSTEM=="tty", ATTRS{serial}=="YOUR_NUMBER", GROUP="YOUR_GROUP", MODE="0660", SYMLINK+="tty-YOUR_PRINTER_NAME"

NOTE:

  • replace the ATTRS{serial} number with your USB device serial number
  • replace the GROUP name with your serial port group name
  • replace SYMLINK name with the name you’d like your printer to have. Keep in mind it has to start with tty, for example “tty-3DPrinter”

I saved the file, remove the USB form printer and reconnect USB to printer.