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Hello,

If it already exists please let me know and we can close this, but I am wondering if there is a way to have added or if there is already something I can use to see the part volume per cm3. I know that it should already be calculated as a cost and shown on the Material Cost line of the Build Statistics in the print preview, but is there a way to see the volume itself quickly? Wondering due to working on 3DHubs and feel the cost doesn't quite reflect the amount of filament used unless the proper infill was calculated in. The Part Volume on 3DHubs can be changed to reflect this, but I don't know where I can see this as calculated in S3D.

Any help or any ability to add this feature would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Quantum3D wrote:Hello,

If it already exists please let me know and we can close this, but I am wondering if there is a way to have added or if there is already something I can use to see the part volume per cm3. I know that it should already be calculated as a cost and shown on the Material Cost line of the Build Statistics in the print preview, but is there a way to see the volume itself quickly? Wondering due to working on 3DHubs and feel the cost doesn't quite reflect the amount of filament used unless the proper infill was calculated in. The Part Volume on 3DHubs can be changed to reflect this, but I don't know where I can see this as calculated in S3D.

Any help or any ability to add this feature would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

If you slice a model and open the Gcode with a text editor, then scroll to the bottom it has the volume of plastic used at the end of the file:

; Build Summary
; Build time: 0 hours 47 minutes
; Filament length: 5007.1 mm (5.01 m)
; Plastic volume: 12043.45 mm^3 (12.04 cc)
; Plastic weight: 15.05 g (0.03 lb)
; Material cost: 0.69

True, I could slice the file, take the GCode and drop it in a text editor, proceed to the bottom, and use that. It would be nice if it it was just displayed along with the other information in the Build Statistics dialog box. Perhaps in the future it will be added. Thanks for the tip!

It displays weight in the UI right now. If you want to show volume instead of weight, here's a little trick. Weight is just volume*density. So if you want the volume to be displayed instead of weight, set your filament density to 1.0.

Now when you slice the weight number that is displayed will equal the volume of the part in cm^3