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Speed up 3D printing using LEGO® bricks
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Generate brick connectors #172

Closed Steditor closed 9 years ago

Steditor commented 9 years ago

Idea: Fabrickator should approximate the shape of the given sub-object, but is not allowed to have bricks that knife into the "rest" of the main object (the 3D-printed part). All bricks that violate the second constraint must be replaced with connectors. Complicated are the parts where Fabrickator generates a smaller approximation than the original sub-object and therefore has no (or not enough) bricks to create a connection. This easiest fix might be to always generate a voxelization of objects that completely include the object.

Steditor commented 9 years ago

We have basic connectors, but we need to improve in #328