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The Supercar System challenge is a follow-up to the one of the most popular challenges in GrabCAD History. With $5,000 in prizes on the line, and the chance to be part of the actual body design team at the company’s 20,000 sq. ft. factory in Las Vegas, you don’t want to miss this one!

Lower waste means lower cost. By some estimates, yacht building generates between 15 and 20 percent wastage from the scrap and the overage in fabrication. With 3D printing, and its reliance on precision and very exact design and fabrication, that number falls to about 2 percent.

This tutorial covers a little-known feature in Photoshop you can use (today) to quickly create incredibly complex displacement-mapped parts for your 3D printer in full color.