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    ‘On-the-fly’ 3D print system prints what you design, as you design it

    June 1, 2016, Categories  Technology/Electronics

    This wire frame prototype of a toy aircraft was printed in just 10 minutes, including testing for correct fit, and modified during printing to create the cockpit. The file was updated in the process, and could be used to print a finished model. Credit: Cornell University

    This wire frame prototype of a toy aircraft was printed in just 10 minutes, including testing for correct fit, and modified during printing to create the cockpit. The file was updated in the process, and could be used to print a finished model. Credit: Cornell University

    Cornell researchers have come up with an interactive prototyping system that prints what you are designing as you design it; the designer can pause anywhere to test, measure and, make changes that will be added to the physical model still in the printer. The system uses an improved version of an innovative “WirePrint” printer developed in a collaboration between Guimbretière’s lab and the Hasso Platner Institute in Potsdam, Germany.

    In conventional 3D printing, a nozzle scans across a stage depositing drops of plastic, ri...

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