Hey guys, I know some of you make and sell filament.

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Hey guys, I know some of you make and sell filament. Some of you are aware of UFID, if not check out the G+ community. I want to rewrite this script to make it easy for you to implement and attach ID tags to your spools. Right now we are focusing on making it useful for the end user, but i think it is important to understand how to make this work in the manufacturing environment. (if this excites you please jump over to our community and help us shape the future of this)

Ideas i have (feel free to recommend new ones):
1: a print tag button, that sends only the tag to the printer, and a database of tags that you make often.

2: Make a flat file that stores all of the tags you use regularly, then render the tags on a page as defined by you (IE you define tag size and page size, then you would select how many of each tag you want to print, and the software would make you a file)

3: An API that would make the codes and return them (to me this seem like a bad idea but hey you never know)

We do plan on adding benefits to the filament maker, some ideas that are floating around include: a button that would take you to the filament makers product page for reorder, a page of vendors that currently support the standard, a way for people to review filament that they have purchased, etc.

If you make it this far, please tell me how to help you. I want to make your life as easy as possible
http://ufids.org/

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While we’re at it, i’d like to point out some inaccuracies on the QR generator:
a) Filament diameter is always written 0.01mm too small
b) Spool volume is written incorrectly
c) Mixture code is written incorrectly
EDIT: Scratch those two - i just figured out those were 8 bit values, which still need to be bumped to (at least) 14 bit.

Now the QRs would typically be printed out onto stickers, so having the page output a pre-tiled layout would make printing them one step easier.

And if i ever manage to make filament that i feel is good enough to sell, i’ll definitely be sticking UFID tags on it :smiley:

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Sorry about the errors, they are fixed now. Mistake with the mod Function, and not enough bits were allocated for the volume/ error checking was not properly working