Cool 3-D Printing Software Just Makes the Skeletons of Your Stuff


WirePrint in action.

WirePrint in action. Source/Wired Design



Seeing a 3-D printer in action for the first time can be kind of disappointing. Objects don’t just materialize instantly like you might expect. Instead, they get pooped out layer by layer, a process so slow that it isn’t uncommon to leave print jobs running overnight. A group of German researchers, however, have come up with a clever way of speeding things up: 3-D printing wireframes instead of full objects.



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