Flushing Volume Measurement Plate by ZiggyP

ZiggyP

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X1 Carbon

P1S

P1P

X1E

As required for flushing volume test.

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16 min

1 plate

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Description

Fast and efficient flushing volume measurement plate.

This plate can measure the required flushing volume for up to 4 color transitions using less than 3g of filament and 9 minutes of print time (excluding prepare time).

The plate contains 5 objects: prime, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th which are printed in that order from the middle to top left then clockwise. The color transitions are between prime and 1st, 1st and 2nd etc. Choose your filaments and assign them to the objects in the Process Objects list. In the posted plate the objects are assigned black, white, black, red, white.

The project flushing volumes need to be zero and should be having a multiplier of 0.0 set.

The 4 test objects consume 10 mm^3 of filament per mm of length so simply measure in mm how far up the object the color becomes pure and multiply by 10 to get the required flushing volume.

The test objects are 50mm long giving a range of 500 mm^3. If that is too little or consistently too much you can scale the objects up or down in the Y axis. If you need less than 4 color transitions simply delete the unused later objects.

WARNING: Loading this project sets the flushing volume multiplier to zero. I am not sure, but, it seems to get saved as part of the slicer configuration so make sure you check and reset it when you create another project.

Update: Changing filament with zero flushing volume tends to leave a bit of oozed filament on the nozzle which sometimes doesn't get wiped off. Dragging a bit of filament onto the print doesn't really cause any problem, however, a work around would be to set all flushing volumes to say 50 mm^3 and remember to add 50 to what you measure.

Comment & Rating (20)

@bollekeil

Print Profile

As required for flushing volume test.

so easy, quick and effective! The few minutes saved me more than half of the cleaning volume. and the result was perfect. Thank you :)

@Code_Craft

Simple print that helped me cut down 50% of my waste! Picture is with 0 flushing multiplier.

@briannampatton

Squares printed great! I only printed 2 so that I could see the black/white/black flush, but they were simple enough! I am currently printing a test print with the new flushing volumes (210 black > white and 130 White > black) to see how it goes. This will save me over 160g of filament in just one multi-colored project! thank you!

The designer has replied

@ZiggyP

Pleased someone is finding it useful. Did the test come out as expected?

@briannampatton

Replying to @ZiggyP :

I loved it! The 2 color print came out beautifully, and I have a 3 color dragon on the plate now that I managed to reduce the flushed values enough to save over an hour of printing time. I love the easy math that you've come up with, as well as an explanation on how to change it to save even more time/filament. I did notice per your note above that I had some filament ooze out between changes, but it's nothing I can't work around, it doesn't make the calculations any less correct. Thanks again!

@clovis879

Thank you ! Is there anything to know if i want to use this for 0.2mm nozzle ?

The designer has replied

@ZiggyP

The measurement range and calculations will change if the initial (only) layer height is not 0.2mm. If you use a 0.2mm nozzle printer profile make sure the initial layer height is 0.2mm. You can probably just use the posted 0.4mm profile with a 0.2mm nozzle.

@Carlos_Gwn

Print Profile

As required for flushing volume test.

works great, only one word of caution to fellow 0.6mm nozzle users: unless you decrease the layer height in your settings, you will end up printing a 0.3mm layer (up from 0.2mm). The actual volume is 750mm³ if you don't change anything 😨 0.6mm nozzle users should shrink the models accordingly to be 30x50 or decrease the layer height to 0.2mm like the model intended.

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