How Much Filament Do I Have Left
As I approached the end of another roll of filament, I asked myself, "how much filament do I have left?" I was getting ready to leave for work and didn't want the printer sitting idle all day with a half-finished print sitting on the bed, but I also didn't want to just put on a new roll and waste a bunch of perfectly good filament. What to do? Well, the answer was obvious, hit Google! Unfortunately, no answer was readily available. Filament spools do not have standard sizes, so there's no rule-of-thumb like, "the last layer has 10 meters of filament" or the like. Annoyed at my lack of results, I thought more about the problem and eventually reframed it for myself. What I had here wasn't a 3D printing problem, one that might require the epic expertise of a Joel , an Angus , or a Thomas ... what I had here was a simple applied math problem. I got out my calipers and went to work. My filament spool has those helpful little cutouts on the sid
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