FILAMENT LENGTH-WEIGHT CALCULATOR FOR 3D-PRINTING
If you do a lot of 3d-prints, you know the problem, that you want to run a job, but you don’t know, if you have enough filament loaded to the printer.
All the slicer’s I know, add a comment line to the gCode-File, where they calculated the usage in meter or millimeter. But I usually order my filament in kilogramms.
To weight the loaded spool on the printer is a very easy way which is doable. Most time you have an empty spool from the same vendor. If you subtract the empty spool from the weight of the loaded spool you get the weight of the filament.
To get from the weight of the filament to the lenght of the filament I built this little calculator.
Ben learnt the mechanical craft from scratch in the workshop and then as a technical merchant. He then worked for a few years as a database programmer.
Then he studied mechanical engineering.
And he has completed some CAS trainings in Data Science.
Today he develops special machines for a special machine construction company in Switzerland.
In 2014 he founded the FabLab at Winterthur, Switzerland.
He's main hobbies are his girlfriend, inventing new things, testing new gadgets, the FabLab Winti, 3d-Printing, geocaching, playing floorball, take some photos (www.belichtet.ch) and mountain biking.
