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MatterControl is an open-source program designed to control and enhance the desktop 3D printing experience. It's designed to help you get the most out of your 3D printer - making it easy to track, preview, and print your 3D parts. Development of MatterControl is sponsored by MatterHackers and it's partners.

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Features

Integrated slicing engine MatterSlice
Library for managing your STL files
Built in profiles for a plethora of different printers.
Built in editing tools along with plugins for creating text, images, and braille.
Queue of items you are going to print, and history of items you have printed.
2D/3D preview of the sliced object.
Advanced printer controls, including the ability to make adjustments while printing.
Software based print leveling.
Remote monitoring of your printer, along with SMS/email notifications when your print is completed.

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Release Notes

Building from Source

MatterControl is written in C#. It uses the agg-sharp GUI abstraction layer. See this wiki article if you want to contribute code.

Checkout the latest source code and submodules:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/MatterHackers/MatterControl.git
cd MatterControl

Install MonoDevelop and Nuget.
```
sudo apt-get install monodevelop nuget
```
Add Mono SSL Support - Copy in Mozilla Root certificates to enable NuGet and MatterControl SSL requests
```
mozroots --import --sync
```
Restore NuGet packages - On MonoDevelop 4.0 or older you can install NuGet Addin. If you are on Mint, also install libmono-cairo2.0-cil. Alternatively you can run the command line NuGet application to restore the project packages:
```
nuget restore MatterControl.sln
```

Optionally switch to a target branch

git checkout main
git submodule update --init --recursive

As a single command line statement:

targetBranch=main && git checkout $targetBranch && git submodule update --init --recursive

Build MatterControl

mdtool build -c:Release MatterControl.sln

xbuild /p:Configuration=Release MatterControl.sln

Link the StaticData from your source directory to the build directory
```
ln -s ../../StaticData bin/Release/StaticData
```
After MatterControl has been built in MonoDevelop it is recommended that you run the application via command line or via a shell script to invoke mono.
```
mono bin/Release/MatterControl.exe
```
If you'd like to log errors for troubleshooting
```
mono bin/Release/MatterControl.exe > log.txt
```
If you want detailed error logging and tracing
```
MONO_LOG_LEVEL=debug mono bin/Release/MatterControl.exe > log.txt
```
In order for MatterControl to access the serial ports, you will need to give your user the appropriate permissions. On Debian based distros, add yourself to the dialout group. On Arch, add yourself the the uucp and lock groups instead.
```
gpasswd -a $USER dialout
```

Serial Helper

Change to the SerialHelper directory

cd Submodules/agg-sharp/SerialPortCommunication/SerialHelper

Run the build script
```
./build.sh
```
If your receive errors you may need to install libc6-dev-i386 for x86 compilation
```
sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386
```

Help, Bugs, Feedback

For information on using MatterControl, check the MatterControl Wiki. If you have questions or feedback, feel free to post on the MatterHackers Forums or send an email to support@matterhackers.com. To report a bug, file an issue on GitHub.

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