FCS Storage Box

The Filament Color System allows you to produce color reference chips for materials you print and store them.

Storage Box Features

• Store 50 FCS chips in a small space
• Chips are easy to remove
• Information on chips can be read without removing if some slots are left empty
• There are 2 versions of the lid, with and without a window.

FCS Features

1. Easily determine material and brand of past prints. Each chip has the brand and material debossed onto the top face.
2. Each chip is 48.2mm x 48.2mm x 2mm. This should be large enough to measure using a spectrophotometer.
3. Each chip is 4g of material. Minimal material used and takes ~30min to print.
4. Two thicknesses allow you to get a sense of opacity of each color.
5. 4mm hole allows chips to be attached to a keychain or piece of string forming a color pallete.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why not use one of the dozens of material chips already on printables/thang/thingiverse?

I wanted each chip to have sufficient information to determine the specific material and reorder it. This is possible by having both the debossed brand and material on each chip. I wasnt able to find a collection of chips elsewhere that had this.

You are missing Brand/Material X!

Leave me a comment and I'll add it! There are ALOT of materials and brands out there. I have added the ones I am aware off but always happy to add more.

Why dont the chips have the color debossed into them?

Primarily because that would result in a magnitude more files to manage and require scrapping alot more data.

Secondly, most people can see the color of each chip. So outside of a few rare cases where a single brand has 2 similair colors of the same material, it shouldnt be an issue.

Print instructions

All models were printed in PLA, 10% infill, no supports.

Chips

	Description	Image
FCS Color Chip	A simple color chip
FCS Texture Chip	A simple texture chip (Coming Soon)
FCS Infill Chip	A simple infill chip
FCS Blank Chip	A blank chip. Make your own custom chips.

Accessories

	Description	Image
FCS Label Mounting Solution	Use this to label what filament is stored in your dry box, Ikea samla or where ever else you want to label filament.
FCS Label Stand	Use this to see what material you have loaded via a camera feed.
FCS Storage Box	A simple self contained solution for storing FCS chips.
FCS Gridfinity Storage Solution	Two storage tray designs to store your FCS chips in your Gridfinity setup.
FCS ALCH Storage Solution	A simple storage tray design to store your FCS chips in your ALCH setup.
FCS Skadis Storage Solution	A simple storage tray design to store your FCS chips in your Skadis peg board.