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Fdm materials

FDM Material database

From Ultimaker·Updated June 3, 2026·View on GitHub·

fdm_materials is released under terms of the CC0-1.0 License. Terms of the license can be found in the LICENSE file. Or at https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ The project is written primarily in Shell, distributed under the Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal license, first published in 2015. Key topics include: cura, filament, profiles, ultimaker.

Latest release: v0.549.2-dev
September 26, 2025View Changelog →

fdm_materials

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FDM material database, used in Cura.

License

License
fdm_materials is released under terms of the CC0-1.0 License. Terms of the license can be found in the LICENSE file. Or at
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

But in general it boils down to:
We waive all rights to the extend of the law. You can copy, modify, distribute as you like, even for commercial purposes

System Requirements

Windows

  • Python 3.6 or higher

MacOs

  • Python 3.6 or higher

Linux

  • Python 3.6 or higher

How To Build

Note:
We are currently in the process of switch our builds and pipelines to an approach which uses Conan
and pip to manage our dependencies, which are stored on our JFrog Artifactory server and in the pypi.org.
At the moment not everything is fully ported yet, so bare with us.

If you want to develop Cura with fdm_materials see the Cura Wiki: Running Cura from source

If you have never used Conan read their documentation
which is quite extensive and well maintained. Conan is a Python program and can be installed using pip

1. Configure Conan

bash
pip install conan --upgrade conan config install https://github.com/ultimaker/conan-config.git conan profile new default --detect --force

Community developers would have to remove the Conan cura repository because it requires credentials.

Ultimaker developers need to request an account for our JFrog Artifactory server at IT

bash
conan remote remove cura

2. Clone fdm_materials

bash
git clone https://github.com/Ultimaker/fdm_materials.git cd fdm_materials

Creating a new fdm_materials Conan package

To create a new fdm_materials Conan package such that it can be used in Cura and Uranium, run the following command:

shell
conan create . fdm_materials/<version>@<username>/<channel> --build=missing --update

This package will be stored in the local Conan cache (~/.conan/data or C:\Users\username\.conan\data ) and can be used in downstream
projects, such as Cura and Uranium by adding it as a requirement in the conanfile.py or in conandata.yml.

Note: Make sure that the used <version> is present in the conandata.yml in the fdm_materials root

You can also specify the override at the commandline, to use the newly created package, when you execute the conan install
command in the root of the consuming project, with:

shell
conan install . -build=missing --update --require-override=fdm_materials/<version>@<username>/<channel>

Developing fdm_materials In Editable Mode

You can use your local development repository downsteam by adding it as an editable mode package.
This means you can test this in a consuming project without creating a new package for this project every time.

bash
conan editable add . fdm_materials/<version>@<username>/<channel>

Then in your downsteam projects (Cura) root directory override the package with your editable mode package.

shell
conan install . -build=missing --update --require-override=fdm_materials/<version>@<username>/<channel>

Contributors

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This article is auto-generated from Ultimaker/fdm_materials via the GitHub API.Last fetched: 6/29/2026