Customizable Calibration swatch

Customizable Calibration Swatch

This is a filament swatch designed to be used as a calibration print as well. It might be a bit beefy for a filament swatch (about 5g of filament, depends on the settings) but hopefully it can save more filament that would be used to print calibration models.

It's features include:

• Header space designed for text that can be easily  customized in OpenSCAD. 

• Overhang test for 45° and 60° overhangs.

• Short and long bridges, lengths about 11mm and 24mm respectively.

• Circular lines in decreasing width for testing linewidth and flow.
• A pattern of hexagons (who doesn't love hexagons) of decreasing height and size  as well as an sphere for testing detail and retraction.

• A hole for putting it on a keyring.

I also made a two part version where the text tag is separate from the swatch. That way the tag can be used as size test, stringing test and negative space test.

The larger cylinder has a diameter of 5mm and the smaller one 3mm. The holes on the watch are offset 0.2mm

Instructions:

Open the Swatch.scad in  OpenSCAD and edit the name and type parameters, optionally letter size and height. The offsets for the text placement should be fine but can be changed too if needed.

If using the two part model, print swatch2part.stl and in OpenSCAD edit the path to file parameter to where your SwatchTag.stl is (remember to change \ into / if there is an error). 

Unfortunately, at the moment of posting this make I have only one spool of filament so I can't show how it would look with different filaments.

Hope You like it and it proves useful!