Lo-Fi 3D-Printing Previews for Faster Prototyping
A collaboration between Hasso Plattner Institute and Cornell University has produced a new step in the 3D-printing workflow. Typically, 3D models go directly from virtual space to physical space in high resolution. This takes quite a long time and requires greater expense in plastic filament, especially if the object will be refined and reprinted multiple times.
With this new workflow, multiple lo-res wireframe prints can give the designer a fast and cheap method of envisioning the object in actual space. No details on when or if the software will be available for download, but I’d love to get a copy and see what it can do.