Quote Originally Posted by fred_dot_u View Post
The concept is wonderful, generally speaking, but the execution is far too demanding, as you've discovered. It might take an incredible programmer to build a post-processor to take either an STL or g-code and create the desired ribs. Probably STL, as g-code is mostly last step for just about everything.
Building on what the video showed I think I can speed up my modeling a bit and maybe make it time effective.