diff --git a/plugins/CuraEngineBackend/ProcessSlicedObjectListJob.py b/plugins/CuraEngineBackend/ProcessSlicedObjectListJob.py
index b150222489..02dcecb80b 100644
--- a/plugins/CuraEngineBackend/ProcessSlicedObjectListJob.py
+++ b/plugins/CuraEngineBackend/ProcessSlicedObjectListJob.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class ProcessSlicedObjectListJob(Job):
 
     def run(self):
         if Application.getInstance().getController().getActiveView().getPluginId() == "LayerView":
-            self._progress = Message(catalog.i18nc("@info:status", "Processing Layers"), 0, False, 0)
+            self._progress = Message(catalog.i18nc("@info:status", "Processing Layers"), 0, False, -1)
             self._progress.show()
 
         Application.getInstance().getController().activeViewChanged.connect(self._onActiveViewChanged)
@@ -52,9 +52,6 @@ class ProcessSlicedObjectListJob(Job):
         else:
             center = numpy.array([0.0, 0.0, 0.0])
 
-        if self._progress:
-            self._progress.setProgress(2)
-
         mesh = MeshData()
         layer_data = LayerData.LayerData()
         for object in self._message.objects:
@@ -80,14 +77,10 @@ class ProcessSlicedObjectListJob(Job):
 
                     layer_data.addPolygon(layer.id, polygon.type, points, polygon.line_width)
 
-        if self._progress:
-            self._progress.setProgress(50)
 
         # We are done processing all the layers we got from the engine, now create a mesh out of the data
         layer_data.build()
 
-        if self._progress:
-            self._progress.setProgress(100)
         
         #Add layerdata decorator to scene node to indicate that the node has layerdata
         decorator = LayerDataDecorator.LayerDataDecorator()