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WirePrint: 3D printed previews for fast prototyping

Authors:

Stefanie Mueller,

Serafima Gurevich,

Alexander Teibrich,

Lisa Pfisterer,

François Guimbretière,

Patrick BaudischAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '14: Proceedings of the 27th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

Pages 273 - 280

https://doi.org/10.1145/2642918.2647359

Published: 05 October 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Even though considered a rapid prototyping tool, 3D printing is so slow that a reasonably sized object requires printing overnight. This slows designers down to a single iteration per day. In this paper, we propose to instead print low-fidelity wireframe previews in the early stages of the design process. Wireframe previews are 3D prints in which surfaces have been replaced with a wireframe mesh. Since wireframe previews are to scale and represent the overall shape of the 3D object, they allow users to quickly verify key aspects of their 3D design, such as the ergonomic fit. To maximize the speed-up, we instruct 3D printers to extrude filament not layer-by-layer, but directly in 3D-space, allowing them to create the edges of the wireframe model directly one stroke at a time. This allows us to achieve speed-ups of up to a factor of 10 compared to traditional layer-based printing. We demonstrate how to achieve wireframe previews on standard FDM 3D printers, such as the PrintrBot or the Kossel mini. Users only need to install the WirePrint software, making our approach applicable to many 3D printers already in use today. Finally, wireframe previews use only a fraction of material required for a regular print, making it even more affordable to iterate.

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WirePrint: 3D printed previews for fast prototyping
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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UIST '14: Proceedings of the 27th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

October 2014

722 pages

ISBN:9781450330695

DOI:10.1145/2642918

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Microsoft Research, USA
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Adobe, USA
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