Working with stainless steel in 3D printing

More 3D printing vendors are introducing metal materials for their systems. One popular metal in particular is stainless steel.  This material offers a number of benefits to designers.  We interviewed Felipe Castaneda, Creative Director at MakerBot, on ways to make the most of it in your designs for 3D printing. Here are key points of the interview.  

Software tools. 

Generative design software will be an important tool in designing with many materials, including stainless steel. When working with this software, it is important to understand the problem you’re working on thoroughly. The goal of generative design is to get as many answers from the computer as possible, to expand the possibilities of what your design will look like. But to do that, you first need a really good grasp of what the problem is in order to form the right questions for the computer to answer.  To read more of the story, click here.