Support structures for additive manufacturing: a review

J Jiang, X Xu, J Stringer - Journal of Manufacturing and Materials …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Additive manufacturing (AM) has developed rapidly since its inception in the 1980s. AM is
perceived as an environmentally friendly and sustainable technology and has already …

From 3D models to 3D prints: an overview of the processing pipeline

M Livesu, S Ellero, J Martínez… - Computer Graphics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the wide diffusion of 3D printing technologies, geometric algorithms for Additive
Manufacturing are being invented at an impressive speed. Each single step along the …

Personal fabrication

P Baudisch, S Mueller - Foundations and Trends® in Human …, 2017 - nowpublishers.com
While fabrication technologies have been in use in industry for several decades, expiring
patents have recently allowed the technology to spill over to technology-enthusiastic …

Genetic-algorithm based framework for lattice support structure optimization in additive manufacturing

B Vaissier, JP Pernot, L Chougrani, P Véron - Computer-Aided Design, 2019 - Elsevier
The emergence and improvement of Additive Manufacturing technologies allow the
fabrication of complex shapes so far inconceivable. However, to produce those intricate …

Improved surface quality in 3D printing by optimizing the printing direction

WM Wang, C Zanni, L Kobbelt - Computer graphics forum, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We present a pipeline of algorithms that decomposes a given polygon model into parts such
that each part can be 3D printed with high (outer) surface quality. For this we exploit the fact …

RevoMaker: Enabling multi-directional and functionally-embedded 3D printing using a rotational cuboidal platform

W Gao, Y Zhang, DC Nazzetta, K Ramani… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, 3D printing has gained significant attention from the maker community,
academia, and industry to support low-cost and iterative prototyping of designs. Current …

Investigating the role of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing in additive manufacturing

G Ameta, R Lipman, S Moylan… - Journal of …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Additive manufacturing (AM) has increasingly gained attention in the last decade as a
versatile manufacturing process for customized products. AM processes can create complex …

General support-effective decomposition for multi-directional 3-D printing

C Wu, C Dai, G Fang, YJ Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a method for fabricating general models with multi-directional 3-D printing
systems by printing different model regions along with different directions. The core of our …

Patching physical objects

A Teibrich, S Mueller, F Guimbretière… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Personal fabrication is currently a one-way process: Once an object has been fabricated
with a 3D printer, it cannot be changed anymore; any change requires printing a new …

Optimisation of multi-part production in additive manufacturing for reducing support waste

J Jiang, X Xu, J Stringer - Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Additive manufacturing (AM) is becoming increasingly popular because of its unique
advantages. However, AM still suffers from support material waste during the fabrication …