The Ultimate Filament Swatch Card

Description:

This filament swatch is designed to help makers keep track of their filament colors and finishes in a neat, organized way. Each card is compact, easy to print, and perfect for labeling and comparing different materials in your collection.

Purpose:

Print one swatch per filament roll to create a physical reference library of your colors. Helps you quickly match filament colors to projects without guessing from online product photos. And it has a couple of tests/nice features included in the design. Full list down bellow. You can either use pins to attach them to the cardboard filament boxes, or simply stack them into a tower, as I’m currently doing.

List of features: 

• Layer height/Transparency (0.1 mm, 0.2 mm, 0.4 mm, 0.6 mm, 0.8 mm, 1.0 mm, 1.5 mm, 2.0 mm)

• Overhangs (25°, 35°, 45°, 60°)

• Layer lines/Smooth surface

• Sharp angles (45°, 90°)

• Gap thickness (0.2 mm, 0.4 mm, 0.6 mm, 0.8 mm, 1.0 mm)

• Wall thickness (0.5 mm, 1.0 mm, 1.5 mm, 2.0 mm, 2.5 mm)

• Stringing

• Bridges (2 mm, 4 mm, 6 mm, 8 mm, 10 mm, 12 mm)

• Circular holes (1 mm, 2 mm, 3 mm)

• Cylinders (1 mm, 2 mm, 3 mm, 4 mm)

• M3 nut hole to see the tolerances

• And a handy hole for a strap or a key ring

Customization:

Includes space for writing filament details such as brand, color name, material type (PLA, PETG, ABS, etc.), and print temperatures. Either you modify the text using your Slicer or there is a version with a blank area 40 mm x 20 mm for the sticker from the box of the filament. Alternatively, there are premade ones with just the material type and rough print temperatures available as well.

Compatibility:

Works with any filament type and printer setup.

Print time:

22 min (CoreOne)

Print settings:

• First layer height 0.1 mm

• Layer height 0.1 mm

• Disable supports

• Infill 15%

• No Brim needed

• Perimeters 1

Wait untill the print is fully cold before removing it from the buildplate, otherwise the 0.1 mm thick layer will get stretched and it won't look nice.

Dimensions: 

67.5 mm x 42.5 mm x 2.0 mm

Used filament: 

≈ 5 g

Backstory:

This project started out as a quick and easy idea for myself. But it quickly snowballed into roughly 100 hours of tweeking every tiny detail. Now that I'm happy with the result, I'm sharing it with the world. I'm open to iterating it based on the feedback.

TheUltimateFilamentBox coming soon? :D