UltiMaker Cura is an open-source slicing application for 3D printers. Cura has been a go-to slicer for millions of people for nearly a decade. It’s used worldwide by makers, hobbyists, professionals, and educators, to make amazing creations on the spot. And if you see this, it’s a safe guess that you use Cura for your 3D printing needs as well 😉.

Our in-house team is focused on the professional engineer, who is the main customer of UltiMaker, but because of the LGPLv3 license, a thriving community has been introducing new 3D printers, translations, plugins, features, and bug fixes on a regular basis. These volunteers come from all over the world to help make our software better by reporting bugs or even contributing code. In 2017, we started with a small userbase, but we now have over 5 million weekly slices and growing. 📈

We believe that software should be free to be used by anyone, and we want to ensure that it is kept that way, independent of the profit of our 3D printer-manufacturing company. The team that develops Cura consists of engineers, designers, testers, and more collaborators, located in an office between cherry trees in the Netherlands. Your donation empowers their work. 💪

With your donations, we can continue to:

• Develop new features, and provide the build and download infrastructure. 🧑‍💻
• Fixing bugs, reviewing and implementing contributions submitted from the community. 🪲
• Improving documentation and writing instructions that can help anyone to get started to contribute 📄
• Pay it forward to our volunteers and give donations to libraries we depend on 💐
• Spend more time interacting with the community on GitHub 👋
• Set out a plate of cookies for the developers in the office to increase their efficiency 🍪

If you like UltiMaker Cura, you can show your support with whatever you can miss. Every little bit helps. 🤗