The second image shows the model viewed through the Formlab slicer. At left, the carnage at right, after the repair. One of the Formlab engineers punched a bunch of holes in a model he grabbed from the web (top picture). It will automatically clean up artifacts, close triangles, and join vertices, so that models will print reliably on the Form 1. PreForm’s mesh repair tool integrates software from Netfabb, to examine the geometric meshes that make up a digital design. The PreForm 0.8.4 release for Windows and Mac contains a new feature - automatic mesh repair.
Subsequent releases of this software will occur for OS X and Windows-compatible versions simultaneously. Based on many requests for a Macintosh-compatible version of the company’s PreForm software, it is available on Formlabs website now.Īccording to Formlabs, PreForm on Mac OS X has complete feature parity with the Windows version. Formlabs, the developers of the first desktop vat photopolymerization process (also known as stereolithography) has just released PreForm for the Mac OS X.
