Experience it before it’s real: Rapid Prototyping
Modeling software lets designers create everything from Michelangelo’s David to shock absorbers. 3D printers deliver a rapid prototype to test designs before they go into production.
Jason Medal-Katz, Senior Manager of Autodesk‘s Customer Briefing Center Program, talks to Wired magazine about how 3D printing lets designers send a file to a machine that prints it out using materials like plastic, rubber or metals, and it can make both static items and ones with moving parts.
Medal-Katz said rapid prototyping makes designing much more efficient, letting developers see what they’ve made almost instantly compared to older labor- and waste-intensive processes.
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