Adobe Systems Inc. filed a patent in September that has now been published online, deepening their participation in the 3D printing arena. Following last year's announcements of partnerships with Sculpteo and Bitoni, as well as enhanced 3D printing features in Photoshop software, Adobe's patent, authored by Radomir Mech, "describes techniques and apparatuses for smooth 3D printing using multi-stage filaments." Applicable to FDM technology, the process described in the patent aims to reduce the look of "stepping" that can be common with that process. Read more about the plan in the full article: http://3dprint.com/56862/adobe-patent-smooth-fdm/


Below is a look at "stepping" on an object created via FDM 3D printing: