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Compact Remaining Filament Gauge

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This is a simple remaining filament gauge/estimator I designed. There's a ton of these out there, but I wanted to design something that had the features I wanted:• Easy to read• Compact in size• A quick print that doesn't use a lot of filament So this is what I came up with.It's 31x75x3 and only uses 8 g of filament. I did a ton of testing to make sure the text was as readable as possible while not having to be huge, and I also made the gauge lines a bit thinner than those on most other gauges. I decided to add a bit of flair in the form of a tiny filament spool that doubles as the hanging/keychain hole. Making it easy to read was a top priority so instead of numeric markers every other line like a lot of other gauges, I fit all of them on my gauge, and did my best to try to make it as easy as possible to read and understand. It's fairly accurate; within 25 g or so, but keep in mind that this should be used as a rough estimate. If you have a 90 g print and your spool is
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3D Printer Accessories
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MakerWorld
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Printer
FDM / FFF
File format
STL
Material
Min. bed size
50 mm (Small)
Software
Cura, PrusaSlicer, or similar
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