Over the last couple years, Adobe has worked especially hard beefing up various distortion correction and perspective manipulation tools. Photoshop’s biggest strength and weakness is its breadth of features. Perspective Warp: Way beyond fixing distortion One reason this capability is in the printing subsystem is the supports needed vary greatly with the printer and material used. The part is rotated so it lays flat (the original stood in space and would have fallen over when printed) and supports have been added at points where Photoshop has determined the material would have failed under its own weight while printing. ![]() This screenshot of a housing in Photoshop CC, along with the part as modified by Photoshop to make it print-ready, show the kind of fixes Photoshop can apply. (Read: 3D printing with metal: The final frontier of additive manufacturing.) One use case Adobe has suggested for tricky models is prototyping with a local printer - like the supported MakerBot models - and then printing a final version using a higher-end printing service like the directly supported Shapeways. From having used the new capabilities to preview a few sample parts, the updated Photoshop is much better than the minimal support creative artists get from most of their current tools, but I’m sure there will still be plenty of cursing as failed or unexpected parts emerge on the print bed. Put me down as a bit skeptical about all this working perfectly all the time. Obviously this means that the printer driver Photoshop uses as the profile for a printer - technically just an XML file - needs to include information about the printer’s options and available materials. In particular, it highlights patching holes in meshes, thickening walls as needed, and adding a raft and supports as appropriate for the material and printer being used. ![]() Fixing your model: Toward foolproof 3D printingĪdobe is making some very aggressive claims about Photoshop’s new capabilities to fix problems with 3D models before sending them to a supported 3D printer. Adobe has also added a grab bag of other features to Photoshop CC, including a dramatically expanded perspective correction tool called Perspective Warp, and several user-requested enhancements. Importantly, the printing subsystem doesn’t just send your model off to the printer, it tidies it up first, making it much more likely to print successfully. Photoshop CC now has support for 3D printing incorporated directly into the software. As of today Adobe claims it will change that. Despite the nearly daily announcement of new, less-expensive, 3D printers, actually using them effectively has been an error-prone process.
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