ReForm: Integrating Physical and Digital Design through Bidirectional Fabrication
summary
ReForm implements bidirectional fabrication that keeps a digital model and a physical object continuously synchronized, demonstrated with a combined additive/subtractive machine using reusable polymer clay, high-resolution 3D scanning and a head-tracked AR overlay for live previews. Users sculpt by hand or annotate with a Sharpie, the system mills or extrudes to match, and a versioned history enables physical undo (smash and restore). Examples include embedded-electronics enclosures and iterative game-controller prototypes; the pipeline reliably reproduces and reverts physical changes.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 0:12Integrating Physical and Digital Design Methods into a Design for Fabrication
- 0:39Flexible Design Process by Combining Physical and Digital Modeling
- 3:00Implement Implications
- 3:47Bi-Directional Fabrication
- 6:12Physical Version Version Tracking
- 6:49Validate the Bi-Directional Fabrication Process
- 10:26Digital Operations
- 10:52Selective Operations
- 13:16Example Outputs
- 14:15Accuracy and Time
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