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MakerWare can use both Skeinforge (highest quality settings) and Miracle-Grue (medium and low quality settings). We are still in Beta, so interfacing slicer engine (like slic3r, netfabb, ) is still underway.

The conveyor task engine is Open Source. So if you want to write your own plug in slic3r (or anything else) first, go for it!



Why is MakerWare closed source? It seems to go against everything Makerbot claimed they stand for. Did Makerbot outsource development?


No, they outsourced funding.


So why is the front-end proprietary?

That is a betrayal of MakerBot's founding principles.




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