How to Measure a 3D Printer's Production Capacity
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Basics
- This page aims to find and/or develop metrics for measuring how many parts a printer can produce per unit of time
- This will not be 100% accurate, but a general unit for comparing printers etc will be useful
- Also units such as print bed, and extrusion speed etc, may not tell the whole story
- Also perhaps develop a tool in the future (manual, or perhaps automatic) for convertign specsheets of printers and printfarms into the value
Base Units
- Nozzle Size
- Maximum Quality Extrusion Speed
- Maximum Quality Printhead Speed
- Maximum Printhead Speed
- Maximum Printhead Acceleration
- 3D Printer Rigidity
- Breaking? of the motors (ie how fast can it "stop" or does it need a portion of "slow down/coast/break" space)
- Maximum Print Volume
- Number of Independant Printheads Per Machine
- Filament Width
- Print Cooling Rate
Proposed Final Units
- 3D Benchys Per Hour (Given that the benchy nearly tests everything, printing a quality one could be applied to nearly any type of print?)
- 10mm Cubes Per Hour (May be better for working with vary basic shapes (gears etc, just 2d stacks with little bridging/changes between layers etc and thus faster?)
- Lattice Cubes Per Hour (May be better for working with VERY complex shapes (Printing airless tires, art, etc)