Length and/or mass of support material used

[YellowZealot]

Hi,

I've been using this software a lot recently and I never seem to know exactly how much support material I need. I almost exclusively use Aquasolve PVA as my support material and PLA as my main build material. Due to the cost of aquasolve It is always a bad day when I plow through a roll only to have my print fail because I've run out and don't have more on hand. When I'm doing large builds that require a lot of support It gives me the total amount of material used. Unfortunately I've had to scrub builds because I started a print that did not start with enough support material.

Would it be possible to add a feature that allows you to see how much support is used as well as cost of support? As of the most recent update it only displays the amount and cost of build material used.

Thanks

[CompoundCarl]

I think the current number if gives you is the weight and amount of ALL plastic that is used for the print (includes both support material and build material). So if you want to get a quick estimate of the support material alone, just set the extrusion multiplier for the build material extruder to the smallest value you can (that was 0.02 for me). Leave the extrusion multiplier for the build material at it's normal value (likely somewhere between 0.9-1.1).

Then slice again and the total filament length and weight will be for the support material only.

[YellowZealot]

Thanks. that seems tedious, especially for large scale prototyping where everyone has to know to do it. It would just be easier if an added feature figured out how much material was flowing through each nozzle, which would be easy. They obviously know how much is going through each nozzle already, but they're adding it together, And assuming I'm using the same support material as build material.