Paper Info
Title
Design-to-fabricate: maker hardware requires maker software.
Abstract
As a result of consumer-level 3D printers' increasing availability and affordability, the audience for 3D-design tools has grown considerably. However, current tools are ill-suited for these users. They have steep learning curves and don't take into account that the end goal is a physical object, not a digital model. A new class of "maker"-level design tools is needed to accompany this new commodity hardware. However, recent examples of such tools achieve accessibility primarily by constraining functionality. In contrast, the meshmixer project is building tools that provide accessibility and expressive power by leveraging recent computer graphics research in geometry processing. The project members have had positive experiences with several 3D-design-to-print workshops and are exploring several design-to-fabricate problems. This article is part of a special issue on 3D printing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/MCG.2013.90
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
computational geometry,hardware-software codesign,printers,solid modelling,three-dimensional printing,3D design tool,3D design-to-print workshop,commodity hardware,computer graphics,consumer level 3D printer,design to fabricate problem,digital model,geometry processing,maker level design tool,meshmixer project,steep learning curve,3D printing,computer graphics,maker-level design,meshmixer
Computer vision,Geometry processing,Computer science,Computational geometry,Design methods,Software,3D printing,Artificial intelligence,Learning curve,Computer graphics,Software development
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
33
6
1558-1756
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ryan Schmidt156726.74
Matt Ratto224134.09