Check filament length on your Prusament spool
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- čas přidán 9. 01. 2024
- Are you running out of filament on your Prusament spool and unsure if there's enough left for your next print? This video tip helps you check it quickly and easily.
It's important to ensure that you have enough filament for your next print, and making the most of every last meter can help reduce waste. By the way, explore useful designs for printing leftovers on Printables.com in the "Last Meters" contest - www.printables.com/contest/70...
Tips:
1. Estimate. the remaining filament using the inner meter of the Prusament spool*.
2. Check your Prusament length quickly with our online calculator - prusament.com/spool/sample/. Weigh your Prusament spool. Load it using the QR code or ID, or visit the website and select 'check spool.' Enter the measured weight (spool + filament), and the calculator will provide an almost exact length of the remaining filament based on the spool's weight and your filament's density.
3. Confirm the print weight and length in PrusaSlicer to ensure you have enough filament for your next print.
4. You can always scan the QR code or enter the spool ID at prusament.com to view all spool parameters.
*The spool's inner meter tip works for 1 kg Prusament spools. - Věda a technologie
It should be standard practice for filament manufacturers to include the nominal spool weight on the spool.
I would thumbs up this comment more than once if I could.
Why not the spool manufacturers?
How about making your filament more available in North America. It's always hugely marked up, if you can find it.
Sweet! Well, I knew this already. I am hoping that @Prusa3D makes some changes to their filament soon. Here are my thoughts to send to the @Prusament team:
1. Make the spool easily refillable like on a Bambu spool. Using the paper core only to connect the sides is not reliable and makes refilling them a difficult experience.
2. Get rid of the little end clips on the edge. Very often, especially when getting to the end, the filament will catch on the clip and create a jam. I get why they are there, but they produce more of a problem than they solve.
3. Time to start making some new colors and maybe cool off from making new materials. The V0 is nice, but only comes in black or white (no grey...why?) The RPLA is mostly nasty and does not produce very good prints. The Tungsten is a goose that has so little beneficial applications. And most of the time, the majority of Prusament is out of stock. As for variety of colors, one only needs to take a look at Bambu's offerings to see the vast differences in selection. Granted, Bambu is not making their own filament, but still worth noting.
4. The refills are terrible. They are difficult to install on the new spool, have poor winding, and get jammed a lot. Plus, there is little financial gain. Please see #1 above.
5. Please make yellow ASA already (the same yellow as Prusament PETG Mango Yellow, not like Prusament PLA Pineapple Yellow)!
And to even out the pain, here are some compliments for the @Prusament team:
1. Prusament is the best filament you can buy. There is no equal.
2. Galaxy colors are now imitated by other manufacturers. Galaxy Black PLA is by far the best looking metallic-looking black PLA filament available.
3. The winding is perfect, always (except the refills).
4. The aromas are pleasant with the PLA (except RPLA) and non-existent with all other Prusaments. That is huge when your printing room has many printers going at once.
Hi. Thanks for your thoughts. We will take them into consideration.
Have a nice day!
Would be awesome if there was an API so we could read this from octoprint. Additionally it would be great if you could add physical spools to prusaslicer so you could keep track of the usage (preferably while communicating this with octoprint as well). That way prusaslicer could warn you that your filament will run out halfway before you start the print
Or on a machine with multiple extruders or an MMU/AMS system suggest loading a second spool of the same color and it would automatically handle the fallover.
This is available in octoprint with the "spools" plugin
I use the spool manager plugin to track my spools. No, it doesn't read data from the Prusa database, but that would be pointless on a (for example) Jessie spool. When setting up a spool in the manager you provide the nominal diameter, filament density, and spool weight (optionally the tare weight for the spool). The plugin tracks the usage during printing from the extrusion commands in the gcode sent to the printer (thus it doesn't work if printing from the printer's SD card/USB drive). I find that when I pull the filament off the printer that when I weigh the spool it is only a couple grams off. That might be untracked usage (purges, color changes, etc), or due to diameter and density being slightly off throwing the calculations off.
I'm not sure about the integrations between spool manager and PrusaSlicer. I know it doesn't exist now, and would take cooperation between Prusa and the Spool Manager maintainer to define API and communication method.
@@SembazuruI'm currently doing the same, but there are times when I forget to select the correct spool in octoprint so this would be a very useful addition for me. Even better if we could somehow connect a scale to the spool manager, perhaps with object recognition so it auto-detects the spool brand/type for default tare weights.
Ah... one can dream
The empty weight of the spools should be on the side of each spool, then you can work out easily with a scales yourself what is left
Just weighed and empty prusament spool and its 206g. I know this isn't exactly what you're after, and I agree with your point entirely but if you wanted to know now you do
@@Tangent. Thanks for that, I'll use that. I have sunlu, giantarm, esun as well as prusament too, all with different spool designs & different spool weights. It should be a standard to have the weights of the full & empty spool on there. & even the spool design should be standardised, so all spools can be used with accessories like ams etc.
For Prusament, look up the spool data with the QR code. The empty spool weight (tare weight) is there. I agree that more manufacturers should do the same. I do remember seeing on one of my many spools the tare weight printed on the spool's label, but unfortunately I don't remember the manufacturer. I've tried asking manufacturers this question with their customer service lines, and often they act as if it is an unreasonable information request... >:-(
@@robcaseyire I just looked on the side of a Polymaker ABS spool and it listed the spool weight at 140g
Wow! That's as good as the belt tension app.
Finally! Is there also an app that tells us when the MMU3 for MK4 is ready to ship?
Would love a quick web aplet to do just this, on my iPhone. One that can scan the QR on the spool
This video appeared only a few days after I figured it out on my own. Where was it when I needed to know? BTW, I am planning to start checking but so far the two spools I have weighed (from different sources) were within 5g of each other and were both just under 200g.
Ya on my x1c I dont have to worry about how much I have left. When it runs out I just load a new spool and it keeps going...
In most cases you can't see how many rows of windings are still on the spool to calculate by diameter, so weight estimates are one solution when you know the tare. Most manufacturers don't care for it.
How long does Prusa hold onto the spool information in their database?
I have some old spools of Prusament that can no longer be looked up in the website using the ID number etched into the spool. I don't remember how old these spools are, but I think a couple years wouldn't be too far off. They still print fine, are stored sealed with desiccant, and they are dried as needed.
I'm not prusa, but I digged through my discard pile, found one empty roll from 28.02.2019 and I had no problems accessing it. So at (almost) 4 years in database. I would assume that they never delete anything, just because how tiny, memory wise, each entry is.
Hi Christopher. All the spools should be in the database. The issue can be anywhere: typo, etc.
We would like to get the spool ID to check it. Can you please email it to info@prusa3d.com?
Have a nice day!
@@Prusa3D I'll try to remember to do that tonight when I finally get home. (I might forget since I don't expect to get home until after 10PM today... Too many after-work activities.)
@@Prusa3D I'll try to remember to do that tonight when I finally get home. (I might forget since I don't expect to get home until after 10PM today... Too many after-work activities.)
@@Prusa3D I finally got around to double checking all my Prusa filaments (including some spools that are empty) and all of them came up in the database without issue. I tried both keying in the spool ID into the webpage on my printer laptop as well as scanning the QR code on the box (if I still had it) and on the spool with my phone (Android). No issues with any of them. The problems I had been having must have been a data-entry error on my part. My apologies for any anxiety I caused by claiming there was an issue when there wasn't one.
Would be very nice to see a spool holder with integrated weight sensor, like the creality one but with real-time measurements in an app like the Bambu Handy. That would be very innovative
I measure everything in grams
can we have that option as well?
Yes, you can! Choose between grams or pounds, whichever you prefer.
The example in the video is even in grams.
@@lordcarloshere Wonder if they meant remaining weight on the spool (0:19)
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