Print Volume Converter and Cost Calculator V1 by standardselectronics

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This is a very small piece of code to convert the estimated filament used per print in millimeters to cubic centimeters, then multiply it by the price per cubic centimeter.
THE EQUATION USED:
[ pi x (diameter/2)^2 x Filament(mm) ] / 1000 = Total cm3
cm3 x (price per cm3) = Total Material Cost
This was primarily done because 3D Hubs uses cm3 for its cost analysis, and we wanted to stick with that for all our customers. As our software output ignores rafts, supports, and other filament eating processes, we developed this just to get a quick output. This way, we get a true cost of printing the part, and not just the cost of the part itself.
This is a self-contained .exe with no dependencies aside from .Net Framework. This has only been tested on Windows, and because of its small size, nothing much will happen with this.
If anyone out there has a need for different calculations, please contact us and we may be able to modify something like this for other needs.
NOTE: You won't see currency on this, because it does not matter. Whatever you input as a cost per cm3, that is the output. This is a true calculator and to it, numbers are numbers. If you put in dollars, the output is dollars, pounds to pounds, etc.