The trade - off of an low-cost 3D printer is that they ’re usually small and can only produce small object . To make something big , you have to break it down into diminished part first . But Autodesk has come up with a better approach : a3D printer with multiple headsthat all work together to moil out monolithic creations .
CalledProject Escher , the hardware is more like an assembly line of 3D printers than a single automobile . Instead of passing an object from one print headspring to the next when its chore is done , the printheads can intelligently act upon together to speed up the creation of an object , or each head can exercise on different areas so that orotund prototypes can be produced in one run .
Project Escher ’s printheads are modular too and can be trade out for different purposes . So while four of them are meddlesome impress aside , the fifth could be swapped for a milling head that removes living structures or other 3D - print components that are only necessary for the printing process process . One of the printheads could even be switch for a robot hand that repositions a part or mechanically removes it from the motorcar once the printing process process is accomplished .
For now the task seems to be an Autodesk inquiry enterprisingness more than anything , but it ’s a brilliant feeler to 3D printing that take vantage of the component in more low-cost machines , while overcome the size limitations that often plague cheaper hardware .
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