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Awesome!
I made a survey about 3D printing filaments. I will release the results this week.
If you want to see the first result, look #3dprintingsurvey.
If you are curious about filaments, subscribe to the private beta to discover filaments.directory
Cheers
I think that’s a great idea! It would be very helpful to have a ranking type system, especially as lots of the filaments don’t make it to Australia quite so quickly (if at all) so it would be good to have a list of others you could choose if the one you want isn’t available.
Cheers
Andrew
great idea
Indeed, that’s a bit more complex. Obviously Hubs change filaments/filament suppliers more often than they do printers, so it’d be incredibly hard to keep that data up to date.
On the other hand, it’s quite clear that the filament market is fragmented and there’s no great guide for printer owners to compare and learn about materials.
We’ll think about a smart solution to work this out and fill this void, suggestions are welcome of course:)
It is indeed tricky because the filament market is so fragmented. I guess even the biggest filament producers only have a tiny market share. If you would represent the world’s filament producer on a graph, I guess that it would probably looks like that : 95% other, 5% big producers.
Maybe it would help to present the filament market share depending on the location (Europe, North America, Asia, etc). After all, I’m based in Europe and it is sometimes way too expensive to ship a US based filament to Europe so it would make sense to divide filaments market according to region.
I have a suggestion about the rating of the filament. I’m not a data scientist so bear with me if I don’t use the right terms.
-3D Hubs already knows which kind of filament is used for every print that is made on the platform.
-Customers already rate the prints that they order in order to give a quality rating. They actually rate both the printer and the filament in one rating. Let’s call it the global rating.
Would it be possible to “filter” the data in order to only get the filament rating? In other words, you would study how a filament influences the quality of a 3d printer’s global rating and then “subtract” the printer’s rating from the global rating to only get the filament rating.
For example, a good filament on a bad printer will probably have a better rating than a bad filament on the same bad printer. On the other hand, a bad filament on a good printer will probably have a worse rating than a good filament on the same good printer. If you could find the correlation between a printer quality and a filament quality, you would be able to find a statistically pertinent rating for filaments.
Does it makes sense? What do you think about it?
it will be difficult to let customers rate the filament . because in not only has to do with the printer. It also has a lot to do with settings! You can have a good printer and good filament with a bad result caused by poor settings
You’re right. Bad settings can create noise. On the other hand, a hub owner who has enough experience probably knows his machine and his filament very well.
The results of the survey are on 3D Printing Industry :
http://3dprintingindustry.com/2016/01/21/new-global-filament-directory-builds
