METHOD AND APPARATUS TO USE AN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PLATFORM

摘要

An additive manufacturing method includes receiving an identification of a particular additive manufacturing model from a user along with a plurality of espoused manufacturing preferences. These teachings provide for automatically selecting a particular additive manufacturing platform from amongst a plurality of available additive manufacturing platforms as a function, at least in part, of the plurality of manufacturing preferences. The selected additive manufacturing platform is then used to manufacture an item based upon the particular additive manufacturing model identified by the user.