Comment by gavmor
3 days ago
Have you put any thought into accommodating self-supporting design to optimize for printing?
Or parametric structural optimization / topology optimization with parametric constraints?
Or, rather, if these are out of scope for your tool, then I'm wondering, like the other comment, how you'll slot into existing pipelines that do facilitate these techniques.
I'm not in the industry, I'm just curious.
Great question and I don’t think it’s necessarily out of scope. Our goal for the web app product is to make the single best design tool for 3D printing! Right now, we don’t directly optimize for printability (like overhang minimization or support-free constraints), but it’s 100% something we’ve been thinking about. Eventually we could guide the model generation with real-time manufacturability feedback/constraints but tbd on how we’ll surface this