The Formulas to Estimating Time and Cost within the PrintUP 3D Printing Software

When it comes to the PrintUP software, there is a great feature within the program that will help you with time and cost.

Even though It will not auto calculate the results for you, it will be of great value when working with the correct formulas.

Video Transcript

Alrighty guys, in today's video, we're gonna be looking at some basic estimations of time and cost within print up. But before that, let's have a quick intro first. So today's video can be found on softwaretraining.co.za. We make short and easy to watch problem solving videos and we also have daily updates. Now, if we head into the programme here. So, I'm just gonna quickly add a project here. I'm gonna select the 3D model. And then, as you guys can see here, we've got our model selected. And then let's say we wanna work out some basic estimations. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna slice it. So we get an idea and they wanna go preview. Now, once I open the preview with our current setting set, you can see we've got a few different um values in the top left corner here. This is gonna give us information on the actual project, so we can see here we've got the time. It's gonna take and also the filament amount. So now what we can do is do some basic calculations based off the materials and so forth. So, first of all, let's see the um time. So let's say, I'm just gonna round it off. Let's say we're charging about 250 rand an hour. Then we have our time here, so we're gonna make this maybe 48 just to round it off. Then let's open the calculator. I'm gonna cancel all of that. So, let's say, OK, so we're gonna take, we first need a kind of a formula so I can understand the hourly rates. So let's first go, we've got 48 minutes divided by 60 minutes plus an hour. Then we've got a ratio. We've got a 0.8. Then we can do with this ratio, we can simply times this by hourly rate, which is 250. And then you can see it's gonna cost, uh take us, they're gonna cost about 200 rand for that. Obviously, this is, you know, without all your markups and stuff like that. It's just like a base. Then, so we've got a flat 200 there. Another thing we can do then after that is the actual filament. So to do that, we first wanna go look at the actual filament. So, I'm just gonna select anyone here. We can see the base price when it's not on special here is 580. So I'm just gonna go with that cause I can't rely on a special. Then um we can get some more info about it. It's the 1.75 millimetre. And we can get the weight as well. So we can see this is 1 kilogramme. In we And then what we can do, I'm gonna go in there, you can always, if it doesn't show, you can always contact sales to find out the length. These ones are around 350 metres. So, what we have then, we've got the weight and the actual um length, which is gonna be very handy. And then we go a year back in our programme. I'm gonna open the calculator again. So now we're gonna work out how much it's gonna cost us for this filament we're using. So to do that is pretty straightforward. What we wanna do is first add the actual price of it, so we know, OK, the roll is gonna be 580. Then we want to divide that by the roll's length, which is 350 per equal, then we can see, OK, now, we're looking at 1.65 per metre. So you can always round it up to maybe 1.7, but we're just gonna leave it at 1.65 and then what you do is you simply times this now by your actual filament length, but keep in mind, we're currently working in metres, so you want to times it by, we'll round it up to 17. metres and then we should get our results. So 17 metres, we got equals, there we go. We've got about 28. Um, rand of filament. Like I said, keep in mind, this is not your labour, like how intensive it is to click the mouse and those things, and also all the extra costs you wanna add. So that's just basically how you calculate the time and your filament used on a project with this little nice preview area. So just a quick recap, so the time. You can obviously um you times your Your current time on top here, in my case, it will be 48 or not, sorry, divided by um 60, that will give us, so 48 minutes by 60 minutes, that will give us the formula, 0.8 and we times this by your hourly rate, 50, and then we've got that. And then when it comes to the actual filament, what we wanna do there is Divide our actual price uh by 80. By the actual length 360. That will give us our price per metre and then we times that with our metre amount over there. And then that gives us that price. So pretty straightforward, some calculations involved, but the nice thing is you can then uh get nice estimates of what it's gonna cost you in time and actual resources. But yeah, otherwise, in the meanwhile though, if we head here to softwaretraining.co.za. You guys will notice we've got a variety of different softwares we do cover, and you can also isolate your search here on the top right. If you do not, however, find the training videos you're looking for, just simply go here, request the training video, fill in the new form, and then we'll do our best to try and make that for you. But otherwise, thanks guys for watching and cheers.