Build Lab — Home Designer, Construction Comparison & Printing Sequence

Start with the home. Use the home designer to plan rooms for conventional framing, panels, modular construction or printed walls.

Open home designer

Project name Project location Conditioned floor area (sq ft) Entered separately; not inferred from wall lengths.

Editable concept study

The starting geometry and machine settings are illustrative. Company selection supplies evidence; it does not supply a calibrated production rate.

GEOMETRY / MOVEMENT / TIME

Watch the route take shape.

Modeled elapsed process time

Printed path Empty travel RepositionShared clock · playback compressed to 24 seconds

The animation follows the calculated steps. Walls show one centerline pass per layer; thickness, openings above the first layer, reinforcement, collisions and curing are not resolved by this study.

Find a better wall order.

Keep phases, station assignments and the printed geometry fixed. Test direction and ordering to reduce modeled process time.

01 / GEOMETRY

Edit the wall layout.

Selected wall segment Wall segment name

Start X (m) Start Y (m) End X (m) End Y (m)

Assigned machine station Required phase (1–9) Earlier phases print first on every layer.

Wall height (m) Layer height (mm)

Up to 24 straight segments and 500 layers. Endpoints and gaps repeat on every layer. Divide a wall into segments to model gaps or station assignments; the study does not design window headers or wall assemblies.

02 / MACHINE + EVIDENCE

Configure the printing scenario.

Provider scenario

X-Hab 3D · public evidence

MX3DP: tracked, self-powered robotic arm with a lifting mechanism. FS3DP: fixed-site robotic arm for controlled environments.

Public printer-sales enquiry route; confirm delivery date, local support, training and site requirements.

No numeric equipment or completed-home quotation on the reviewed pages. Confirm mixer and pump inclusions: the introductory package description and options list differ.

Which platform, reach, stabilization and repositioning plan fit this site?
Are the mixer, pump, silo, hoses and material qualification included?
Who contracts for engineering, approvals and the remaining building work?

MX3DP and FS3DP specifications and package scope ↗Published project portfolio ↗

Reviewed 2026-09-07. Configuration below is your scenario, not a verified specification for this company.

Print speed (mm/s) Empty-travel speed (mm/s) Allowance per restart (s) Allowance per layer change (s) Allowance per station move (min)

Configured work envelope Configured horizontal reach (m) Horizontal boundary only. Vertical reach and arm collision remain unverified.

Machine stations · 1 configured

Station 1

Station 1 X (m) Station 1 Y (m)

The nozzle starts at station 1. A station move uses the entered allowance, then starts travel from the new station center. No terrain, collision or relocation plan is certified.

Machine configuration source and validation notes Record model/version, source date, speed assumptions, crew, material and limits to verify.

ORIGINAL / OPTIMIZED

Same walls. Measurable changes.

Run the comparisonOptimize to compare an alternative order.

Per-home scenario. Original order is preserved within each required phase.
Measure	Original	Optimized
Printed path, all layers (m)	8,280	—
Empty nozzle travel (m)	12,411.29	—
Extrusion starts / restarts	1,440	—
Machine repositionings	0	—
Printing time	23 h	—
Empty-travel time	13.79 h	—
Restart allowance	6 h	—
Reposition allowance	0 h	—
Layer-change allowance	0.99 h	—
Modeled process time	43.78 h	—
Crew + variable operation / home	Inputs needed	Inputs needed

An improvement is against your entered order, not a competitor benchmark. Printing length and material scope remain fixed. No full-project completion saving is inferred.

03 / OPERATING ECONOMICS

Connect process time to cost.

These hourly rates apply across modeled printing, travel, restart, layer-change and reposition time for one home. Add other crew and variable costs separately. Enter zero only when intentionally excluded or included elsewhere.

Total crew cost ($ / hour) Variable machine cost ($ / hour) Other crew cost outside modeled time ($ / home) Other variable cost outside modeled time ($ / home)

Route used for operating costs

Linked crew cost / homeInputs needed

Linked variable operation / homeInputs needed

Use these calculated crew and variable operating costs in my owned-print economics. I will account for remaining scope separately.

Enable the connection to use the calculated values in Print economics. Full-project months, hired quotes, material quantities and equipment capital remain separately entered. A shorter printing route does not automatically shorten the project.

Project scope and remaining work

Open connected print economics Compare whole-home scope

METHOD / LIMITS

What Optimize actually changes.

The original route follows your listed segments within each required phase. The optimizer tests nearest-endpoint sequences and segment reversals, retaining a result only when its modeled time improves. It preserves each segment exactly once per layer, phase order and the assigned station. It does not guarantee the global shortest route.

Connected endpoints can continue without a new restart allowance. Every layer begins a new extrusion start. The model repeats the same route across layers, including travel back from the previous layer's endpoint. The final layer is capped at the entered wall height.

Acceleration, extrusion transitions, pump pressure, material setting, reinforcement, vertical reach, collisions, ground conditions and engineered wall paths require additional constraints and validation. This is a planning study; it does not export commands to a printer.

Your project inputs stay in this browser unless you explicitly export or share them. Public source requests do not include your budgets.