Explains 3D printing problem, solutionfrom @fdotinc

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Three d printers are terrible chefs. They blindly follow a recipe and they don't taste their worse. But this group of builders is teaching them how to good. Pun intended. Let's start with the recipe. Every good three d print project starts out as a three d model built in three d software. But computers are lazy, and doing math with curves is hard. So a program converts your model into thousands of tiny triangles. Then another program, called a slicer, cuts that pile of triangles into flat layers, each stacked on top of one another. Each layer then gets instructions, which include the position to move the print nozzle to called g code and what to do when it gets tier, like heating up, cooling down, changing flow rate called m code. G code and m code make up the recipe and they're all the three d printer sees and reads. Nothing else. So if a part comes loose, a layer shifts, or material starts clogging, tough luck. But that's where these guys come in. This is Hasnain, and his team's tech watches the three d print live rank compares single layer against exactly what it's supposed to look like. And if it sees a mistake, it adjusts in real time, writing new g code and m code on the spot to adjust speed, cooling, and even pausing to correct the mistake to make sure more recipes end up becoming final dishes instead of being wasted. They built this at Founders Rank, a three month program where you and your team get funding, a dedicated lab and worse, and a community of builders to go all in. So if you're building something awesome, comment the word blueprint.