What 3d printer to get?

[themountain]

Originally Posted by HumboldtEF

I just threw that up as an example, but it is just a mock up part anyway

I use 100% infill on almost everything that ends up on an rig

aah...I see

[k7zpj]

Originally Posted by nightcrawler48

I was curious about how much filament on a 1 KG roll so did a little math with the "Sliced Info" shown at the bottom right of the slicing screen. Based on the amount of filament estimated to be used in M (meters) and the estimated weight in G (grams), I figure there is about 1,100 meters on a 1 KG roll (that's over 3,300 feet for the metric challenged out there).

Here is a link to a calculator for determining the length of filament for different types of plastic and diameters of filament.
https://rigid.ink/blogs/news/how-man...ent-on-a-spool

A typical roll of 1.75mm diameter pla is 335.3 meters / Kg.

[nightcrawler48]

Originally Posted by k7zpj

Here is a link to a calculator for determining the length of filament for different types of plastic and diameters of filament.
https://rigid.ink/blogs/news/how-man...ent-on-a-spool

A typical roll of 1.75mm diameter pla is 335.3 meters / Kg.

Interesting, my math is way out to lunch.

I did a random check of different gcode files and re-calculating I got a huge difference using the length vs weight calculation on each file. The number that seems to be consistent is the grams/cubic centimeter. It would seem Prusa has that calculated pretty good but needs to work on the length of material used per print. Thanks for getting me sorted out k7zpj .

I'll see if I can edit my previous post so I'm not leading anyone astray with my goofed up numbers.