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Metal 3D printing design validation

Cloud service to validate designs for advanced manufacturing.

Why now

New manufacturing tech creates demand for specialized design tools.

Who for
Manufacturing engineers
Business model
Pay-per-analysis
Effort
A few months

Engineers using advanced manufacturing like Ultrasonium need to validate designs for the process.

Build a web service that analyzes CAD files for manufacturability with specific processes.

Sell analysis credits to engineering firms.

MVP could just check basic geometry constraints.

Risk: Niche industrial market.

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