ryebreadsalad
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2 months ago You would need a really precise scale and do some measuring and math - and it's work that is pretty unnecessary. Googling less than 1 minute per filament is much quicker, way more reliable and more accurate. I fail to understand how you can not find the neccessary data sheets, just put in the filament name and hit go.
Basically a lot of vendors and every manufacturer offers this information in the technical datasheet on the product page.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Yes, being able to put accurate information into the required field of "Filament Density" in order to use the software.
Describe the solution you'd like I'd like there to either be detailed documentation or a link to a resource that can help a user find the density of their filaments within the software next to the "Filament Density" field.
Describe alternatives you've considered I've seen a few threads that go over some "Best estimate" numbers to use for generic filaments with a disclaimer that it might not be accurate, as well as a user-edited database of filament information. Both alt solutions could use documentation like what I'm requesting.
Additional context I googled several iterations of "How to find the density of a filament" as well as trying to find a datasheet of my filaments that contained density information, but I couldn't find any reliable results. The only somewhat reliable result I did find is issue #69: "Auto-populate density field," full of people with similar issues, but there were no usable solutions to finding the density from that post.
The lack of relevant results could be because of Google's personalization algorithms that make each person's results different based on their search histories, so it is likely that my google results did not include the information I was looking for.
People have to be calculating the density of their filaments somehow because this software exists and people use it, but my question is how, and if the answer to that question can be documented and linked to next to the field within the software.
Edit: I want to clarify that this is asking about how to find the density when the filament you're using does not have that information attached. Obviously if the manufacturer supplies that information, you can find it that way, but if not provide a tool to or calculation in order to find the density.