Design of extendable Tool Path Generation software for 3D printing

Author

Jie Liu ; Yanbin Fan ; Qinghua Lu ; Yongqiang Yang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. & Electr. Eng., Foshan Univ., Foshan, China

fYear

2014

Firstpage

130

Lastpage

133

Abstract

Tool Path Generation is one of the important steps in 3D printing (3DP) processes. An extendable tool path generation software is designed aimed at supporting all 3DP processes in this paper. At first, an extendable architecture is created based on the principle of tool path generating which all 3DP processes should follow. Then, the Graphical User Interface (GUI) is designed with a Visual Studio like style and OpenGL is used to display slicing layers and tool paths in both 2D and 3D. At last, the parallel computing is introduced to save the generation time. Experiment result shows that, the presented software works faster than the commercial software CTools.

Keywords

CAD; computer graphics; graphical user interfaces; parallel processing; production engineering computing; three-dimensional printing; visual programming; 3D printing process; 3DP process; GUI; OpenGL; Visual Studio; commercial software CTool; extendable architecture; extendable tool path generation software; graphical user interface; parallel computing; slicing layer; Educational institutions; Graphical user interfaces; Manufacturing; Parallel processing; Printing; Software; Three-dimensional displays; 3D Printing; Extendable architecture; Parallel computing; Tool path generation software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Manipulation, Manufacturing and Measurement on the Nanoscale (3M-NANO), 2014 International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/3M-NANO.2014.7057354

Filename

7057354