摘要:
An information processing apparatus for generating a toolpath of a three-dimensional fabrication apparatus includes circuitry to slice three-dimensional data of a three-dimensional object into a plurality of parallel planes to generate a first image slice and a second image slice, extract a first contour in the first image slice and a second contour in the second image slice, the first contour dividing the first image slice into an area inside the three-dimensional object and an area outside the three-dimensional object, the second contour dividing the second image slice into the area inside the three-dimensional object and the area outside the three-dimensional object, and correct a third contour of a third image slice disposed between the first image slice and the second image slice based on the first contour of the first image slice and the second contour of the second image slice.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a system and a method for optimizing printing parameters, such as slicing parameters and tool path instructions, for additive manufacturing. The present invention comprises a property analysis module that predicts and analyses properties of a filament object model, representing a constructed 3D object. The filament object model is generated based on the tool path instructions and user specified object properties. Analysis includes comparing the predicted filament object model properties with the user specified property requirements; and further modifying the printing parameters in order to meet the user specified property requirements.
摘要:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for designing three dimensional lattice structures include, in one aspect, a method including: creating nodes in a plane normal to an axis in accordance with a spiral, wherein proper subsets of the nodes occur at successive radii positions away from the axis in the plane normal to the axis; repositioning every other one of the proper subsets, from at least a portion of the nodes, in a direction in 3D space along the axis; creating a three dimensional (3D) structure in the 3D space, the 3D structure comprising beams placed between the repositioned and non-repositioned proper subsets; duplicating the 3D structure one or more times to form a lattice in the 3D space; and selecting at least a portion of the lattice for inclusion in a 3D model.
摘要:
A tool used to direct the pressure applied to features of a plastic laminate part layup during co-curing or co-bonding is manufactured using direct digital manufacturing techniques. A CAD drawing representing the tool is generated and converted into digital data file suitable for controlling the operation of a rapid prototyping machine. The tool is formed in the rapid prototyping machine by additive layering of material until the features and dimensions of the layered material correspond to the CAD drawing. The resulting tool exhibits geometries and dimensions virtually identical to the theoretical dimensions of the CAD model of the tool.
摘要:
The invention concerns a method of producing a mechanical part on the basis of a computer-aided design of the type comprising: a preliminary step of breaking down the body of the part into elementary strata, a step of manufacturing the elementary strata, a step of reconstructing the part, characterized in that: the procedure incorporates, during the breaking-down of the part, the breaking-down of at least one fluid transport circuit designed and modeled beforehand into elementary chambers (20) according to a break-down associated with that of the part, said elementary chambers are produced in the elementary strata (7i) of the part during the step of manufacturing the strata, and the fluid transport circuit is reconstructed in its entirety during the superposition and assembly of the strata. The invention concerns the mechanical parts produced by said method and for numerous fields of application, for example, but not exclusively, plastic and metal processing.
摘要:
An automated computer-implemented method for generating commands for controlling a computer numerical control machine to fabricate an object from a workpiece. The method includes the steps of: (1) determining a first set of Z coordinates for machining a first set of Z level planar slices with a first tool; and (2) determining a second set of Z coordinates for machining a second set of Z level planar slices with the first tool. The second set of Z coordinates is partitioned into one or more subsets. Each subset corresponds to a pair of adjacent Z coordinates belonging to the first set of Z coordinates. A distance between the Z coordinates of each subset is a unit fraction of a distance between the Z coordinates of the pair of adjacent Z coordinates which corresponds to each subset.
摘要:
A method of fabricating rotary drag bits for subterranean drilling by layering techniques such as are employed in rapid prototyping technology. Thin layers of powder may be sequentially deposited and fused or otherwise bonded to define the bit body, or thin sheets of material may be stacked, bonded and cut. Bit body components may also be formed by the method, and subsequently assembled with other components made in like manner or by other methods to produce a bit body. Bits fabricated according to the method are also disclosed.
摘要:
A method to construct an accurate scaled model from an original too small to allow for physical measurement is disclosed, said method generally comprising the steps of determining the initial geometry of the original, analyzing the original to determine its internal structure, establishing a reference useful for quantitative measurement of the object, physically dissecting the original, recording the results of the physical dissection, and constructing the model at a desired scale based on quantitative measurements obtained from the dissection of the original.
摘要:
An apparatus and method for forming an integral three-dimensional object from laminations of the same or gradually varying shape. The apparatus includes a supply station, a work station for forming a material into a plurality of laminations for the three-dimensional object, a control station for directing the operation of the work station, an assembling station for stacking the laminations in sequence into the three-dimensional object, and bonding the laminations to complete the formation of the three-dimensional object. The method includes the steps of providing a work station for forming the laminations for the three-dimensional object, providing the material which can be a bimaterial composite, providing a control station for directing the operation of the work station, entering data concerning the three-dimensional object at the control station, instructing the control station to direct the operation of the work station, assembling the laminations in sequence into the form of the three-dimensional object, and integrally bonding the laminations to complete the formation of the integral three-dimensional object. By following the method, a unique three-dimensional object formed of individually contoured laminations of the same or gradually varying shape is obtained.
摘要:
A system is disclosed for cutting shapes from slabs of easily machinable material, such as plastic foam, under computer control. These shaped slabs can then be piled and glued together in order to build large complex volumes, to be used as models, molds or cores of fiber-reinforced objects. The slab of material is rotated around a fixed axis of rotation, while a cutting wire is driven in translation and tilted at various angles within a plane parallel to or containing said axis of rotation. The cutting action of the wire results from electrically induced heat and/or abrasive motions of the wire in its own direction. This cutting machine is used as a peripheral of a microcomputer, and receives from this microcomputer the signals necessary to control the electric motors driving the rotation of the slab of material and the motions of the cutting wire.