3D Printing

A print farm does not usually fail because nobody knows how to press “start.” It fails in smaller, duller, more expensive ways. One plate carries too few parts. Another job needs manual rearrangement. A failed object ruins the economics of a batch. The slicer accepts a layout that looks reasonable, until sequential printing reminds everyone that the print head is not a ghost and cannot pass through already printed objects. Reality, inconveniently, still has geometry. ...