I created a filament properties visualizer : totally free
I had a hard time mentally keeping track of how different filament parameters relate to each other, so I built a small visualization tool for myself with data pulled from the USA store for Prusa, Polymaker, and Bambu.
It lets you plot filament properties against each other in 2 or 3 dimensions, filter by property or material type, and compare things like strength, temperature resistance, price/kg, print settings, etc. Click any data-point and it takes you to the PDF data sheet. It turned out useful enough that I figured others here might be interested too.
For example, you could try plotting tensile strength vs impact strength vs deflection temperature with a price cap of $50 and you would find out PC is an interesting high performer.
Free, no account needed, no ads, and currently Prusa, Polymaker and Bambu Lab filament only.
Feedback welcome.
https://filament-plotter.vercel.app/
RE: I created a filament properties visualizer : totally free
Any chance of getting the actual temperatures and strengths instead of the manufacturer's paper?
People can print the materials, and send in their test results?
Can we use this to figure out who Bambu's filament supplier is?!
RE: I created a filament properties visualizer : totally free
By the way I tested Bambu PLA Tough+ a while ago and I noticed a consistent 20% difference in strengths across the different colors.
RE: I created a filament properties visualizer : totally free
Crowd sourcing sounds cool, but there are too many uncontrolled variables (different printers, different temps, different nozzles, different ambient temps, enclosed, open, etc) to allow crowd sourcing. To say nothing of how test rigs. I don't want to end up like 3dfilamentprofiles where they have 26000 filaments in their db and none of it is trustworthy or makes any sense and lots of the profiles are incomplete or with errors. The manufacter data isn't perfect, but it is fairly consistent, and they tell us in detail how they test, and they have the same tests run the same way for most materials.
I think it is well known that Bambu's supplier is Sunlu. The open question is whether they use the same recipes and specifications or not.
RE: I created a filament properties visualizer : totally free
Thats interesting. What colors were better, which were worse?
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It's a nice tool but I don't trust TDS reports. In a lot of cases I've found them to exaggerate properties of the material or tensile strength and young's modulus etc is derived from an injection molded part. The My Tech Fun channel on Youtube has done an awesome job calling out these discrepancies between the TDS and actual testing of 3D printed parts.
The point about colors is accurate and other variables such as nozzle size and print temp also need to be included.