Difference between revisions of "Virtual designs into physical objects/Intro"

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To be useful to anyone designs need to turned into physical objects which isn't quite as straightforward as compiling software or downloading it over the internet.

Creating, testing and modifying physical designs is not quite so straightforward because of the effort, time and cost required to create the physical artefact; although with access to emerging flexible computer-controlled manufacturing techniques the complexity and effort of construction can be significantly reduced.

Here are some different ways that collaborative designs created on a computer can be physically created: