Hi, I’m going to join up soon in order to 3d print and assemble a thing.
I’ve worked out I’ll need about 500gm of filament, but I don’t know how this works.
Do I supply filament?
Do I drop cash in for what I’ve used?
Should I alert everyone that this thing is printing so the printer is “booked”?
We don’t have any formal systems for this at the moment. The filament in the space was bought as a group and is at this point is used as if it were communal. My expectation being that when the filament runs out the folk who’re most invested in buying more will be the people who have been using it the most or expect to be using it a lot. There is a lot of filament available in the space if you like undyed or red ABS, I don’t see us running out of either of those for a while yet so its not an immediate problem.
With the interest in 3D printing ticking up, announcing your intention to use a printer is probably going to be useful, I’m not sure which medium is going to be most effective for that. Happy to continue with informal systems and refining them as we go.
Simplest option would be to tack the printer “booking” onto the space opening announcement.
If you want to use the printers the space has to be open anyway.