Machines

The Machines module is where you track your equipment: the 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC routers, and other machines you own. It's a record of what you have, not a way to drive them. Driving them is Digital fabrication.

What it tracks

A machine has identifying details like manufacturer, family, and type, its state, and whatever fields matter for it, such as firmware or nozzle size. Because Machines can be instanced, each kind gets its own area: a 3D Printers area with printer fields, a Lasers area with laser fields, and so on, all still machines underneath.

This works entirely on its own, with nothing connected. It's a good equipment log whether or not Cobblr ever talks to the machines.

Each machine's own page

A machine type with its own tab (3D Printers, Laser Cutters, CNC Machines) opens a full machine page, not a name-only stub. Set every field, edit it, attach files, and, for a 3D printer, connect it to its print manager (FDM Monster, OctoPrint, or Bambu) right from the page or from the New 3D printer dialog. The detail view opens wide, with the photo on the left and fields on the right, and stacks to one column on a phone.

Saved views

Every Machines instance carries saved views as chips, so switching perspective is one click instead of re-checking a filter. A shipped Printer fleet by state view groups your printers by state; hit Save view to name your own (which states to include, an optional grouping) and pin it as a reusable tab.

Usage and maintenance

Once a machine is linked to print jobs, each completed print bumps its lifetime print count, and its hours too when the manager reports a duration. Pair that with a maintenance threshold and Cobblr reminds you by real use, "nozzle due at 500 prints", instead of by a guessed date.

To actually send files and run jobs, see Digital fabrication.