Makerbot Industries, LLC

Anthony James Buser

Nathaniel B Pettis

Ariel Douglas

Jonah Gold

Adam G Mayer

Bryan Vaccaro

Joseph Neal

Justin Day

Hugo Boyer

Jennifer J Lawton

Robert M McGuire

An article of manufacture formed by a three-dimensional printing process that uses multiple build materials with different optical properties (e.g., color, opacity, and the like) at different surface depths to achieve grayscale-rendered images on exterior surfaces thereof.

Grayscale rendering in 3D printing

A server is configured to store a number of different models of an object in machine-ready form corresponding to a number of different three-dimensional printers having differing capabilities and/or hardware configurations. When a user at a client device or a printer requests the object, the server automatically determines a printer type and selects a suitable, corresponding machine-ready model for immediate fabrication by the printer.

Downloadable three-dimensional models

An additive three-dimensional fabrication process uses multiple build materials with different optical properties (e.g., color, opacity) at different surface depths to achieve grayscale-rendered images on exterior surfaces thereof.

An additive three-dimensional fabrication system includes voice control for user interaction. This voice-controlled interface can enable a variety of voice-controlled functions and operations, while supporting interactions specific to consumer-oriented fabrication processes.

Voice-controlled three-dimensional fabrication

A three-dimensional printer includes a laser line scanner and hardware to rotate the scanner relative to an object on a build platform. In this configuration, three-dimensional surface data can be obtained from the object, e.g., for use as an input to subsequent processing steps such as the generation of tool instructions to fabricate a three-dimensional copy of the object, or various surfaces thereof.

Printer with laser scanner and tool-mounted camera

A variety of techniques are disclosed for incorporating displays into three-dimensional printers.

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Linden, NJ, United States of America

Anthony James Buser