Point cloud slicing for 3-D printing. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Oropallo, William; Piegl, Les A.; Rosen, Paul; Rajab, Khairan
• Is Part Of: Computer-aided design and applications. Volume 15:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 90
• Page End: 97
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: 3-D printing -- NURBS -- point cloud -- object slicing; Computer-aided design -- Congresses; Computer-aided design -- Periodicals; Engineering design -- Data processing -- Congresses; Engineering design -- Periodicals; 620.00420285
• DOI: 10.1080/16864360.2017.1353732
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1686-4360

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper revisits a more than half a century old problem: slice a free-form object into layers for manufacturing. A point based approach is taken that would have been prohibitive even a decade ago. Due to modern hardware, plenty of storage and a plethora of software packages, the time has come to ditch complicated and error prone numerical code and deploy a simple point based method to achieve robustness and accuracy that have been lacking for a very long time. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT: