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Hey all,

So I had a print that consumed (according to S3D) about 100 grams of material and S3D is telling me it used 35268.0 mm of filament. I kind of doubt it used 35 meters of filament. Is the S3D algorithm borked?

We've done plenty to testing internally on a wide variety of printers, and typically the filament length calculations are almost exact to what is used during the print.

Can you post the factory file for your print? It's hard to give any suggestions without being able to see the file.

SoLongSidekick wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 1:12 am So I had a print that consumed (according to S3D) about 100 grams of material and S3D is telling me it used 35268.0 mm of filament. I kind of doubt it used 35 meters of filament. Is the S3D algorithm borked?

Why do you doubt this?

As there's not really much information to work with, a rough calculation:

PLA, 1.75mm diameter, 1.24g/cm³

1.75mm = 2.405mm² area
2.405mm² * 1000mm length = 2.405cm³ volume
2.405cm³ * 1.24g = 2.9822g

Roughly 3g/meter

35m * 2.9822g = 105g

1000g spools of filament (PLA) usually are around ~300-330m in length.