At the moment there seems to be the option to either make the entire printer offline or delete the material. I’ve got supply issues with one material (a good example of when JIT goes wrong) that means I would have to decline orders until such time as it’s back in stock.
Have I missed anything?
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You should email support a few times and ask them to “do something, anything at all, to make managing materials easier for hubs”. In your case the ability to turn a material on or off just makes sense. It’s common sense. It’s not even a lot of work to add that feature. I’ve found in general customers are understanding, patient and flexible. Obviously there has to be exceptions. Most customers are willing to switch colors if a color goes out of stock or wait a few business days for new stock to come in. If your stock issue is going to be a week or more or it is an entire material type that is unavailable you may want to delete the material.
Your wording makes me think you’ve been down that route before…
Obviously I can recreate the data fairly quickly as it’s all documented but it does seem somewhat daft.
One of the resins I use has a 3 week lead time, the majority of them are 2 week. Got some en route, but I could well run out of one of them tomorrow (very large print, unexpected quite so soon after setting up my hub - let that be a lesson!).
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I typically have 9+ printers with 3-10 material types with 12-20 colors each. Adjusting anything on the printers and pricing page is impossible so I list 3 printers with 3 layer heights and whatever the months most popular colors are. It’s just not worth the ridiculously bad setup which results in less accuracy and less customer choices.
I’ve got it comparatively easy by only using a few materials on one printer (got FDM on hand as well, but I feel the market is oversaturated in that area).
Still trying to work out the best way to price an increase in layer resolution - the material costs remain the same, but when your print time jumps from 12.5 hours @ 100u to over 50 @ 25u for a print then fixed cost + volume used isn’t an adequate way to capture the wear on the printer.
Hey guys, thanks for bringing this up again.
We do definitely have this feature in mind on the roadmap and I’ll bring it up again to see if we can push it to be made sooner. We totally agree that this has to be improved ,especially when you have so many materials added to your Hub.
I have the same question any idea ?
Shall I create one printer/one material ?
