[Alec Richter] had a good idea on how he could convert the leftover filament spindles from his 3D printer into multi-compartment storage. An empty spindle is fitted with several trays that rotate ...

It will be a lot of extra work to pull filament off the spool, which needs to turn inside a bag, inside a box, and that extra work will be done by the 3D printer’s extruder, a part that should ...

But one of our test samples (the CubeX) used a filament spool that costs $100 and weighs about 1.36 pounds. Each 3D printer comes with software that prepares your 3D design for printing.