Cardboard Filament Roll Ring (To help spin on your filament roller)

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So I bought a filament roll of PLA from a company called JAYO, regular black pla but it came on those cardboard rolls. On the Artillery Sidewinder X1, it tends to roll on the the side of the bearing and ends up eating in to the edges of the filament roll and causes a lot of friction to the point where the extruder has a hard time rolling the filament.This model is a ring that you can place around the cardboard to give it a plastic edge so it rolls nice and smooth. It CAN be used on pretty much any brand of filament or type of cardboard filament rolls.There are two types, one is just a ring that you can use on it's own, or just to test the fitment. Although when I printed this to test fitment, I found it actually works very nicely just like that! I had to increase the size in Cura to get it to fit better. I measured 198mm wide so I made this 200mm but it was still a bit tight. I enlarged it on the X and Y axis by 0.5mm, (adding 1mm total) and it fit nice and snug.The second model was my original idea, it still works, my train of thought was that this type would ensure that the ring would stay in place, but I found that the ring test piece actually fit quite snug anyway, but for those who like this option, I uploaded it anyway.Print settings are fairly simple, print at any layer height, but I would recommend the highest your nozzle can go up to. For a 0.4mm nozzle, print at 0.3 layer height. If you have a 0.6mm nozzle, I printed it at 0.45 layer height. Only 2 walls are needed, I used 30% infill however you can use any type of infill you prefer, as long as the trapezoid "notches" in the middle have some infill in order to print the top layer. For the ring model, no infill is needed.Print it nice and slow, if you use OctoPrint then use the Arc Welder plugin. If you use Klipper but have OctoPrint on another machine, what I do is upload the gcode to OctoPrint, let it create the Arc Welder gcode, then download that gcode and upload it to Klipper and print it. Although this step isn't necessary, it's what I do for prints that have a lot of curves, in which this print is one huge curve.If you have a different design of cardboard filament roll that the full model doesn't line up with, you could send me a picture of it and I could whip up a quick stl for you that will work. Upload to imgur or something similar and send me the link. I'm a beginner on Thingiverse but I'm assuming there's a way to send me a message.