Never Skip a Step: A Reproducible Printing Pipeline
Audio overview of Factory Floor — turning a from-memory 3D-printing habit into a validated, human-gated pipeline with a single source of truth.
Generated for project: Factory Floor
Most of my printing workflow used to live in my head: rough dimensions in a note, a slicer profile I half-remembered tuning, a print that came out fine but that I couldn’t recreate. Factory Floor is the fix — a pipeline where every part starts as a project.yaml, everything downstream is generated from it, and nothing reaches the printer without a human reading the report.
This episode traces the whole chain: parametric CAD in build123d, STEP and STL export, geometry validation for watertightness and bed fit, a heuristic thin-wall check, a BambuStudio dry-run slice, and a Markdown report a person signs off on. The theme is reproducibility over memory — and a deliberate refusal to close the loop, because automation should prepare the change and a human should own the decision to print it.