Candy Mechanics: What’s more fun than getting your face made out of chocolate?

In December 2016, I shared a story about two Autodesk employees who CNC’d (computer numerically controlled) personalized creations using chocolate.

Thanks to Autodesk Forge, Philippe and Lucas are not alone. Actually, lots of people make edible 3D printables or CNC-ables, but this blog post covers a company that is doing so with the help of Forge.

Recall that Forge is a:

  • Platform (collection of Application Program Interfaces) and supporting materials (e.g., sample code, manuals)
  • Community of developers who uses those APIs

At Autodesk, we use Forge for our own development, but Forge is intended for our customers and 3rd party developers to be able to extend our web services. Candy Mechanics is one of those developers. Here is their story.


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