Cost and material usage

Can anyone give me an Idea on how much it takes to make a part? IE: a small plastic bolt: how long and how much material cost? just a guess is fine.

Say an M5x20 bolt? a couple of pence, 10-15 minutes counting the warmup on mine. But if you're interested in printing small bolts remember that you won't be able to print threads that work below a certain ( fairly large ) size, so you'd have to print it blank and use a die to put the thread on.

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3D Printer Calculator

This will help with estimating material cost of parts.

Thank You. This will help

My cost of materials is $1.63 an ounce (filament & shipping) so when I print a piece I weigh it and I can easily figure the material cost.

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ddseeker
3D Printer Calculator

This will help with estimating material cost of parts.

Avast says this download file has a virus.

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ddseeker
3D Printer Calculator

This will help with estimating material cost of parts.

Avast says this download file has a virus.

Don't believe there is any malicious content and avast is just being cautious, seeing that it is an executable file you download.
I downloaded this at work with no issues and it works fine but I had the same virus warning at my house (where I use avast).

screen shot of it on my pc


But as all things downloaded off the internet, think Safety First.

(heard of this on the filastruder forums, downloaded it on 12-Nov-13 and been running it with no virus issues... yet)

I just look at the volume slic3r indicates 1cm³~1g @ ~0.02€/g for PLA/ABS, Cura can indicate the cost too. (Maybe slic3r should add the feature, its trivial)