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Demonstrating fastForce: Real-Time Reinforcement of Laser-Cut Structures

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CHI EA '21: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We demonstrate fastForce, a software tool that detects structural flaws in laser cut 3D models and fixes them by introducing additional plates into the model, thereby making models up to 52x stronger. By focusing on a specific type of structural issue, i.e., poorly connected sub-structures in closed box structures, fastForce achieves real-time performance. This allows fastForce to fix structural issues continuously in the background, while users stay focused on editing their models and without ever becoming aware of any structural issues.

In our study, six of seven participants inadvertently introduced severe structural flaws into the guitar stands they designed. Similarly, we found 286 of 402 relevant models in the kyub [1] model library to contain such flaws. We integrated fastForce into a 3D editor for lasercutting (kyub) and found that even with high plate counts fastForce achieves real-time performance.

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Muhammad Abdullah, Martin Taraz, Yannis Kommana, Shohei Katakura, Robert Kovacs, Jotaro Shigeyama, Thijs Roumen and Patrick Baudisch. 2021. FastForce: Real-Time Reinforcement of Laser-Cut Structures. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). ACM, New York, NY, USA.

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CHI EA '21: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

May 2021

2965 pages

ISBN:9781450380959

DOI:10.1145/3411763

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Yoshifumi Kitamura
Tohoku University, Japan
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Aaron Quigley
University of New South Wales, Australia
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Katherine Isbister
University of California Santa Cruz, USA
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Takeo Igarashi
The University of Tokyo, Japan

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Landwehr Sydow SJonsson MTholander JMaiden NSas C(2022)Modding the Pliable Machine: Unpacking the Creative and Social Practice of Upkeep at the MakerspaceProceedings of the 14th Conference on Creativity and Cognition10.1145/3527927.3532804(220-233)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2022
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