A Simple Software Change to Add "Bricklayer" Mode to Slicers Delivers Truly Water-Tight 3D Prints

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• Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Would be nice to see on cura

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  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You won’t ever see it in a commercial / OTS slicer implementation for a while, fucking Stratasys still has a patent on it and they love lawyers. This guy finally just said fuck it and wrote it himself.

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    • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Stratasys still has a patent on it

      That’s putting it generously, isn’t it?

      This video from a year ago goes into why the patent they have today isn’t valid. (Short answer: prior art. They patented it in 1995 and that expired in 2015 in the U.S. and 2016 in Europe. Then they re-patented it in 2020, which isn’t really something they can do, but the patent office granted it anyway, probably unaware of the prior patent. There’s kindof a “new claim” in the later patent, but there’s prior art for that as well in the form of a 2019 feature request on PrusaSlicer’s Github.)

      I get that Stratasys has lawyers and money and might theoretically be able to win even a case with as little merit as a patent case regarding that 2020 patent would have. But I’m not sure I’d go so far as to say they have a (valid) patent.

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    • Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Man I really don’t want to switch to something else

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