it would be a nice feuture if you also showing the Gram/Kilo Amount of the
Build additionla to the cost. So its much easyer to see if the filament on the roll is enough for
the print
Now i have set the price for 1 kilo to 100$ so i see how much it will use.
Simplify3D makes a material cost ESTIMATE based on the cost per kg that we supply in the editor, which is not very accurate, because we don't tell Simplify3D how many CCs of filament it takes to make 1 kg of filament. Simplify3D has some fixed value for this that its using to estimate the cost which is probably based on ABS.
Not all filament weighs the same per CC. Simplify3D only knows how many CCs of filament it used for a print, it doesn't know the weight. To get a somewhat accurate cost estimate, the algorithm needs to know the weight per CC of filament for the current filament type. This can vary by quite a lot.
For example 1.75 mm PLA is about 330 meters per kg (1.25 g/CC). While 1.75 mm ABS is about 400 meters per kg (1.04 g/CC). ABS is lighter, so if a cost estimate was based on ABS, but you were printing PLA, your cost estimate would be wrong.
Some of this kind of information is in the gcode generated by Simplify3D. I don't know why it's not all shown in the editor. It gives CCs (same as milliliters), but doesn't give kg.
Look at the end of your gcode made by Simplify3D. You'll see something like this:
; Build Summary
; Build time: 140.37 min (2.34 hr)
; Plastic volume: 49496.90 mm^3 (49.50 cc)
; Filament length: 29974.5 mm
; Material cost: $5.12 (€3.79)
