MakerBot Cloud Releases New Updates to Streamline 3D Printing Workflows

MakerBot announces new features and updates for MakerBot Cloud™, its cloud-powered 3D printing solution. MakerBot Cloud incorporates a full suite of 3D printing applications that enables users to easily prepare, manage, and print their projects directly to MakerBot 3D Printers, including web-based print preparation, CAD plugins, mobile apps, and more.

MakerBot Cloud offers the same seamless user experience as MakerBot Print, the best-in-class 3D printing desktop software. MakerBot’s print preparation solutions give users better control over preparing, slicing, and monitoring their 3D prints.

MakerBot Cloud is now integrated with industry-leading design software, including Solidworks, Autodesk Fusion 360, and Autodesk Inventor, to provide users with a much more streamlined and efficient 3D printing workflow. Users can work directly in their preferred CAD programs and send their print jobs through the MakerBot Cloud print preparation application to a MakerBot 3D Printer.

Within MakerBot Cloud’s print preparation application, users can now scale, rotate, and arrange their models on the build plate, as well as adjust the characteristics of the model, including infill density, support density, and shell layering, for faster draft print or slower high surface quality print.

New features include:

• New design for MakerBot Cloud print preparation interface allows for an improved user workflow and experience
• Monitor and view prints in real-time via the onboard camera of a MakerBot 3D Printer
• Exporting .makerbot files for both online and offline 3D printing
• Movable purge tower (for MakerBot METHOD) and movable model for printer build volume optimization

MakerBot Cloud is also integrated seamlessly with Thingiverse, the world’s largest community of 3D printable models, creating a smooth user flow from file download to print preparation to print.