Setting Up Bambu Studio in Ubuntu 24

I like 3D printing. I recently started dual booting Windows and Linux again. As I was setting up my new Ubuntu installation I remembered that I needed a slicer for my 3D printing.

Thankfully, Bambu Studio has a Linux application that I can utilize. I downloaded the 2.3.1 release for my setup. It runs, it sees my printer, it slices and it sends to my printer to print.

BUT!

I need a little more. Here is a quick guide of how to set up Bambu Studio and create file affiliations in Ubuntu.

# Create an application directory and make the file executable

mkdir ~/Applications
mv <yourApp>.appimage ~/Applications
cd mkdir ~/Applications
chmod +x <yourApp>.appimage

# You can now launch the app. Lets make some file associations

touch ~/.local/share/applications/your-app.desktop

# add the following to the above file. Edit as needed
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Your App Name
Exec=/home/yourusername/Applications/your-app.AppImage %f
Icon=/path/to/icon.png
Type=Application
Categories=Graphics;3DGraphics;
MimeType=model/3mf;application/x-3mf;

# Update things:
update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/

# Create the associations
xdg-mime default your-app.desktop model/3mf
xdg-mime default your-app.desktop application/x-3mf

This should now launch Bambu Studio or your other application when you try and open a 3MF file!