But he said the in-house version demoed at Build is the first 3D printing application to take advantage of the new 3D printing pipeline in Windows 8.1-in fact, there's even a big "Print" button that pops up in the demo software's Main Menu screen. In conjunction with a MakerBot 3D printer, 123D Design utilizes the Windows Blue 3D printing pipeline to take 3D printing files and push them directly over to the printer to construct objects.Īutodesk's updated 123D Design software isn't yet available to the public and Roberts said the software company doesn't yet have a timeline on when it will be released. Using the new Windows-enabled pipeline in an application makes 3D printing as near to a simple plug-and-play operation as regular old 2D printing.Īutodesk has done just that with its free 123D Design application, which Roberts demoed on the exhibition floor at last week's Microsoft Build developer conference in San Francisco. But as Roberts noted, current 3D printing requires users to go through a complicated set of steps with 3D printing "mesh" files to ready them for printing. Perhaps that doesn't seem like such a huge deal. The addition of a 3D printing pipeline to Windows 8.1 means a 3D printing file of an object could be emailed to a recipient, who could then simply open the file and hit "Print," pushing it over to a 3D printer to begin constructing the model.
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