Small commandline tool to calculate how much it costs to print a plastic model
note that this just calculates the price of the filament, electricity, printer wear and labor time is not included
have a recent version of elixir installed
clone and run mix escript.build this will create a binary called filament
~> ./filament
No command provided
usage: Filament <command> [<args>]
Commands
list Lists configured filaments
color [code] [color] Adds extra colors for an existing filament
materials Lists densities and temperatures for commonly used materials
calculate [code] [length in cm] Calculates the price for a length of filament described by its code
add [code] [manufacturer] [name] [color] [diameter in mm] [density in g/cm^3] [price of spool in €] [net weight of spool in g] Adds a filament to the list
delete [code] the code of the filament you want to delete
if you dont want to install elixir on your system, you can run it inside a docker container
clone and run docker build -t filament_image .
then you can run it by passing the arguments you would normally pass to the app to the docker container
~> docker run -it -v ~/.filament.json:/root/.filament.json filament_image materials
┌─────────────┬──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
│ "Type" │ "Density (g/cm^3)" │ "Extruder Temp (°C)" │ "Bed Temp (°C)" │
├─────────────┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│ "ABS" │ "1.04 g/cm^3" │ "220-250" │ "95-110" │
│ "PLA" │ "1.24 g/cm^3" │ "190-220" │ "45-60" │
│ "PETG" │ "1.23 g/cm^3" │ "230-250" │ "75-90" │
│ "HIPS" │ "1.03 - 1.04 g/cm^3" │ "230-245" │ "100-115" │
│ "FLEX" │ "1.19 - 1.23 g/cm^3" │ "225-245" │ "45-60" │
│ "Nylon" │ "1.06 - 1.14 g/cm^3" │ "220-270" │ "70-90" │
└─────────────┴──────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
~> ./filament list
┌───────────────┬────────────────────┬────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬────────────────────────┬─────────────────┬──────────────────┐
│ "Code" │ "Manufacturer" │ "Name" │ "Color" │ "Diameter (mm)" │ "Density (g/cm^3)" │ "Price (€)" │ "Weight (g)" │
├───────────────┼────────────────────┼────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ "PPLA" │ "Prusa" │ "PLA" │ ["Purple", "Copper", "Metallic Green", "Black"] │ 1.75 │ 1.24 │ 25 │ 1000 │
│ "PPETG" │ "Prusa" │ "PETG" │ ["Transparent Green", "Transparent Red", "Black"] │ 1.75 │ 1.27 │ 23 │ 1000 │
│ "PMPF" │ "Polymaker" │ "Polyflex" │ ["White"] │ 1.75 │ 1.18 │ 50.0 │ 750 │
│ "CFCFPLA" │ "Colorfabb" │ "Corkfill PLA" │ ["Brown"] │ 1.75 │ 1.18 │ 40.0 │ 650 │
│ "FMPLA" │ "Fiberlogy" │ "Mineral PLA" │ ["White"] │ 1.75 │ 1.24 │ 50 │ 850 │
│ "PABS" │ "Prusa" │ "ABS" │ ["Silvergrey"] │ 1.75 │ 1.03 │ 23 │ 1000 │
└───────────────┴────────────────────┴────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴────────────────────────┴─────────────────┴──────────────────┘
~> ./filament add CFBF Colorfabb "Bronzefill PLA" Bronze 1.75 3.9 50 750
┌──────────────────┐
│ :result │
├──────────────────┤
│ "Added CFBF" │
└──────────────────┘
~> ./filament list
┌───────────────┬────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬────────────────────────┬─────────────────┬──────────────────┐
│ "Code" │ "Manufacturer" │ "Name" │ "Color" │ "Diameter (mm)" │ "Density (g/cm^3)" │ "Price (€)" │ "Weight (g)" │
├───────────────┼────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ "CFBF" │ "Colorfabb" │ "Bronzefill PLA" │ "Bronze" │ 1.75 │ 3.9 │ 50.0 │ 750 │
│ "PPLA" │ "Prusa" │ "PLA" │ ["Purple", "Copper", "Metallic Green", "Black"] │ 1.75 │ 1.24 │ 25 │ 1000 │
│ "PPETG" │ "Prusa" │ "PETG" │ ["Transparent Green", "Transparent Red", "Black"] │ 1.75 │ 1.27 │ 23 │ 1000 │
│ "PMPF" │ "Polymaker" │ "Polyflex" │ ["White"] │ 1.75 │ 1.18 │ 50.0 │ 750 │
│ "CFCFPLA" │ "Colorfabb" │ "Corkfill PLA" │ ["Brown"] │ 1.75 │ 1.18 │ 40.0 │ 650 │
│ "FMPLA" │ "Fiberlogy" │ "Mineral PLA" │ ["White"] │ 1.75 │ 1.24 │ 50 │ 850 │
│ "PABS" │ "Prusa" │ "ABS" │ ["Silvergrey"] │ 1.75 │ 1.03 │ 23 │ 1000 │
└───────────────┴────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴────────────────────────┴─────────────────┴──────────────────┘
~> ./filament calculate CFBF 874
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ :success │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ "Printing 874 cm of Bronzefill PLA (Colorfabb) will cost you around €5.47" │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
~> ./filament delete CFBF
┌────────────────────┐
│ :success │
├────────────────────┤
│ "Deleted CFBF" │
└────────────────────┘