Full Plate Print:Any way to get accurate time from S3d?

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jcspball13
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Full Plate Print:Any way to get accurate time from S3d?

Post by jcspball13 » Mon Aug 01, 2016 6:35 pm

Got my second job to quote; is there any way at all to get an accurate time it will take to print?

My last job, I was off by about 33%! Any suggestions would be great!

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Jules
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Re: Full Plate Print:Any way to get accurate time from S3d?

Post by Jules » Mon Aug 01, 2016 6:48 pm

Yep. Add 33% to the printing time quoted for prints under 3 hours. (I'm not kidding, that's what I do. :lol: ) 40% for 5 hours+. 50% for 8 hours+.

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Re: Full Plate Print:Any way to get accurate time from S3d?

Post by jsc » Tue Aug 02, 2016 9:08 pm

You can try a Marlin based gcode estimator: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2785

It runs your gcode file through the Marlin firmware to get a more accurate estimate. It does not account for the warmup time, and if you have changed your acceleration settings and saved them to your EEPROM, it will be off. But it is probably the best you're going to be able to do.

I've fired up the web interface mentioned in that thread again, so give it a try if you like.

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