Whether your material runs is decided by your customer today. Their experience. And which template they happen to get.
Your profile.
Ready at the customer's.
Your reputation now depends on how well a stranger knows their way around slicers.
Whoever builds printers and slicers puts their own filament profiles in from the factory. As a pure material manufacturer, you never had that path before. FilamentPilot creates it — for every common slicer.
The starting point
Your filament is up against the house brand.
Bambu Lab, Prusa, QIDI and Creality build printers, sell filament and ship the slicer to match. Their spools already sit there as a ready-made profile. The customer picks it, prints, done.
Manufacturers with their own slicer
- ✓ Profile is built in from the factory
- ✓ The customer picks it from a list
- ✓ The first print succeeds
- ✓ Next purchase, they reach for the house brand again
Pure material manufacturers — until now
- ✗ No profile in your customer's slicer
- ✗ The customer dials it in themselves — or searches a forum
- ✗ The first spool becomes an experiment
- ✗ If the print fails, the material takes the blame
And the consequence
In the end, you develop material for someone else's profiles.
This isn't an unfair trick — the big players earned that advantage. But it steers your development: if your customers work with someone else's factory profiles, your filament has to fit exactly that. You end up developing to match someone else's settings instead of your own material — and everything becomes more alike. Your material was never the problem — the missing settings were.
The last few percent
Your slicer profile gives the starting point. Your knowledge delivers the rest.
At your customer today · if all goes well
- 1
You stay in your slicer.You maintain your filaments there as before. FilamentPilot reads them in with one click.
- 2
You add what you know.From your lab and your support team: build plate, adhesive, drying, support material. Plus the questions your customers keep asking.
- 3
You send the package to your customers.One file in a neutral format.Each of them uses it in the slicer they prefer: Bambu StudioOrcaSlicerPrusaSlicer+ 7 more
Until now, every slicer needs its own profile.
And your knowledge stays in the datasheet.
With the FilamentPilot file · neutral format
One package. Every slicer.
You maintain only your own slicer. Profile and knowledge travel in one file. Your customer uses it in ten slicers. This clearly lowers the risk of a failed print.
Engineering materials, a rule of thumb from the workshop. Your customer does the fine-tuning on their own printer.
With FilamentPilot
You get the same path — without your own printer and without your own slicer.
One file your customer loads. One click, and your profile sits in their slicer — with the values you've tested. Your customer doesn't have to figure anything out. The first spool runs — and the second is bought from you again.
Maintain once, usable everywhere
One profile. Every slicer.
You're not building anything from scratch. What's already in your slicer profile is filled in the moment you import it — you only add what you already know. And your customers don't change how they work at all. They keep slicing in their usual program. Your profile simply shows up in the list there — with everything you know about your material.
- 1 once · 2 min.
Install
No account, no server, no setup.
- 2 one click
Import your filaments
Temperatures, flow rate, cooling appear on the card right away.
- 3 2–3 min. per filament
Enter tested values
What your tests found: build plate, adhesive, drying, support distance per nozzle. Add the datasheet as a PDF. Material types, rating levels and tags all use your own terminology — fifteen lists are freely editable.
- 4 one click
Hand it out
As a file in your shop, on the product page, or by email.
You do steps 1 and 2 once. After that it's two to three minutes per filament. No editorial system, no training, no ongoing maintenance.
Maintain it once. Every customer can print.
At your end
FilamentPilot · Printer-series mode
Your tested values
for one printer series
One file
Your filament
FilamentPilot
to FilamentPilot
At the customer's
FilamentPilot
Import the file —
assign it to their printer
Your customer can write the profile into their slicer in every version.
You maintain per printer series
Not per device, not per slicer. Your customer assigns the profile to their printer when they import it.
The first print works
Your customer starts with your tested values instead of a table in a PDF.
Fewer support tickets
What gets reported as a material fault is often a settings problem.
Do your customers use a slicer that's missing here? Many are variants of the ones listed — FilamentPilot searches for them itself at the press of a button and adds them in. Your customers don't need a paid licence: the Free version reads your file and writes it into their slicer.
Exactly how your customer opens the file and assigns it to their slicer — step by step, with pictures from the app — is covered on /funktionen.
Workshop licence
Material and settings in one bundle
For customers who print on your machines. You hand over not just the material values, but your print settings too.
At your end
FilamentPilot
packs both together
Filament profile
Your tested material values
Print profile
Your settings for the machine
At the customer's
Both in place — and they print just like you
For customers who print on your machines. The bundle belongs to the slicer it came from — your customer doesn't even need FilamentPilot for this.
For everyone else the single file from the section above — it goes into every slicer, without your settings.
How it played out in practice
Before
Days of trial and error with a fibre-reinforced material.
After the bundle
First print. Very good results.
A user spent days fighting Grauts HPP-40GF, a fibre-reinforced material. On Grauts' behalf, we sent them the bundle: the material values and the print settings that worked on our machine of the same type. They could start right away — with very good results.
Company mode
Your cheat sheet. Your brand.
Your customer prints out an A4 page and hangs it next to the printer. Your values are on it — and your name.
Your datasheet says what your material is: lab values, temperature ranges, certificates. The cheat sheet says how to print it: concrete temperatures, build plate, adhesive, drying time — on one page, with your name underneath.
You need both. Until now, there was only the first one.
Manufacturer stamp
Your name travels with every profile.
Every FilamentPilot file of your brands carries your logo, your name, your website and the printer series. Stamped are the brands you list in FilamentPilot as your own. Profiles of other brands stay unchanged. Your customer sees it on import, on the filament card and on their cheat sheet: this profile comes from you.
You maintain your own profiles — no middleman, no approval loop, no platform between you and your customers. Company mode is part of the Workshop licence.
What it does for you
Your stake: €69.99. Once.
What's on the other side of the scale, you work out with your own numbers. We don't plug in any values for you.
Not included — the real lever: the customer whose first spool works right away and who therefore buys from you again. What that customer is worth over the years, you know better than we do, so there's no number for it here. The calculation below only shows what you save in cost.
One-time investment
€69.99
Workshop licence with company mode. No follow-up costs.
Your savings · every year
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That's – of your stake — year after year.
Pick your rough size, then overwrite every field with your real numbers.
Adjust the numbers — calculate with your own values
Support time
Requests about temperature, build plate, drying or slicer settings.
Savings per year
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Complaints
"This filament won't print" is often a settings question, not a material one.
Savings per year
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Your investment
€69.99
Paid back after
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After that, FilamentPilot keeps working for you at no further cost.
You pay for the licence once. The savings come back every year.
No subscription, no tiers by customer count, no cost to your buyers. And the more of your customers use it, the bigger the effect.
All values are your own assumptions. This page only calculates what you enter.
What your customers get out of it
The first spool works. And the second one is yours again.
No failed first attempt
Your profile is in the slicer before the first print even starts. The customer judges your material — not their own settings.
No digging through forums
Drying, build plate, support material: what's usually scattered across five videos sits with your material. The customer prints as always — and has your know-how along.
Reordering without searching
Your shop link hangs as a QR code on the printer. When the spool runs out, the way back to you is one scan away.
This is the real lever — and the one number we deliberately don't count below. What repeat purchases are worth, you know better than we do.
Let's talk.
In fifteen minutes, we'll show you what FilamentPilot does for your brand. The first step costs you nothing.
Get in touchfilamentpilot@machbar3d.com · Workshop licence, one-time €69.99 · no subscription
🏆 Partner from day one
Grauts — a German filament manufacturer: HPP, PA, ABS, PLA and PETG. From standard materials to technical grades where settings decide between success and a failed print.
Do you make filament, run a shop, or feature FilamentPilot in your videos? One email is enough.