Skeinforge Width over Thickness Calculator

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I'm the kind to mess with W/T parameters, not feedrate or flowrate. I don't know why, maybe because I like the standard 30mm/s speed and can't break away from old-style sounds and printing. So I just mess with W/T until it's perfect... Until now. I'm sick of all them stupid calibration cubes. My mom is amused at the number of ubiquitous calibration cubes I have made. So I made this program that takes values and spits out w/t values. It's windows only because it's written in C++. The source is packed inside the Zip folder. Color coded by category and to make it all colorful to remind you that Skeinforge is your friend. The calculations are based off of the thing that this is a derivative of. Instructions Install: Place EXE file somewhere on computer. Uninstall: Nuke EXE file. Run: Open EXE file. Use: Enter your system parameters and chosen Layer Height and Feedrate values. Click "Calculate" to make W/T number. If it seems strange, please let me know so I can try to correct the equations. If it makes your printer put down too much plastic, try increasing the W/T Fudge Factor. If it puts down too little, lower that parameter. This will end up being your "manual calibration" factor since reality will always be a bit different. This is what you'll be playing with if you want nice infill. It'll probably be higher for lower layer heights were excess plastic is not tolerated.