A system for facilitating the delivery, execution and modification of a manufacturing plan describing how an object is to be manufactured using an additive manufacturing process, wherein the manufacturing plan includes aspects focused on building the object via a 3D printing process including depositing material in layers that ultimately are part of a completed object as well as depositing unwanted support material that is not part of the completed object, and aspects focused on finishing the object by contacting the object with a chemical solution that dissolves the unwanted support material or abrasive material that erodes the unwanted support material or smooths surfaces of material of which the object is built, the system comprising: a coordinating computer; a database for storing one or more manufacturing plans; a communication link for transmitting manufacturing information pertaining to a particular object being manufactured from a manufacturing location to the database and the manufacturing plan from the coordinating computer to the manufacturing location, wherein the manufacturing location comprises a machine for carrying out an additive manufacturing part-making process to produce an interim object and a finishing machine for carrying out the aspects focused on finishing the object; wherein the coordinating computer compares information generated by evaluation of desired characteristics of the manufactured object to identify parameters not in keeping with the desired characteristics in order to identify ways to modify the aspects focused on finishing the object in the manufacturing plan to create a modified manufacturing plan. wherein the manufacturing plan includes aspects focused on building the object via a 3D printing process including depositing material in layers that ultimately are part of a completed object as well as depositing unwanted support material that is not part of the completed object, and aspects focused on finishing the object by contacting the object with a chemical solution that dissolves the unwanted support material or abrasive material that erodes the unwanted support material or smooths surfaces of material of which the object is built, the system comprising: a coordinating computer; a database for storing one or more manufacturing plans; a communication link for transmitting manufacturing information pertaining to a particular object being manufactured from a manufacturing location to the database and the manufacturing plan from the coordinating computer to the manufacturing location, wherein the manufacturing location comprises a machine for carrying out an additive manufacturing part-making process to produce an interim object and a finishing machine for carrying out the aspects focused on finishing the object; wherein the coordinating computer compares information generated by evaluation of desired characteristics of the manufactured object to identify parameters not in keeping with the desired characteristics in order to identify ways to modify the aspects focused on finishing the object in the manufacturing plan to create a modified manufacturing plan. a coordinating computer; a database for storing one or more manufacturing plans; a communication link for transmitting manufacturing information pertaining to a particular object being manufactured from a manufacturing location to the database and the manufacturing plan from the coordinating computer to the manufacturing location, wherein the manufacturing location comprises a machine for carrying out an additive manufacturing part-making process to produce an interim object and a finishing machine for carrying out the aspects focused on finishing the object; wherein the coordinating computer compares information generated by evaluation of desired characteristics of the manufactured object to identify parameters not in keeping with the desired characteristics in order to identify ways to modify the aspects focused on finishing the object in the manufacturing plan to create a modified manufacturing plan.