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Published October 8, 2025 | Version v0.2.14

DDU Clay 3D-Printing Slicer (v0.2.14)

  • 1. ROR icon Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • 2. Technical University Darmstadt
  • 1. ROR icon An-Najah National University
  • 2. ROR icon Technische Universität Darmstadt

Description

clayprinting-slicer

An Open Grasshopper-Based Slicer for Clay 3D-Printing

 

This is an experimental slicer for 3d-printing, mainly developed for printing clay on the WASP40100 LDM printer. Its main part is an almost self-contained Grasshopper definition with just a single dependency.

 

The project was started in 2022 at DDU internally to create a template for research and experiments with our clay 3d-printer - with the aim that it should also be incorporated into teaching contexts for a student audience with widely varying Rhino/Grasshopper experience. While there were and are plenty of established softwares and already developed plug-ins out there (today even more so than back then), we felt none of the existing solutions fit our case well. You can read up on some of the details and alternatives in the Origins section.

Abstract (English)

An Open Grasshopper-Based Slicer for Clay 3D-Printing

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Additional details

Additional titles

Alternative title
digitaldesignunit/clayprinting-slicer

Dates

Created
2025-07-04

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/digitaldesignunit/clayprinting-slicer
Programming language
Python , C#
Development Status
Active