In conventional additive manufacturing, most processes for creating the layers of a part are
performed on a horizontal plane. In contrast, a conformal additive manufacturing process
has been suggested in order to build a real 3D structure on a freeform surface using a direct-
print process based on material extrusion. A new algorithm was developed that is able to
use the standard 3D printing file format that includes both a 3D model to be printed and a 3D
model of a freeform substrate along with the desired printing parameters as input, and it …