Abstract
In layered manufacturing, the choice of the build direction for the model influences several design criteria, including the number of layers, the volume and contact-area of the support structures, and the surface finish. Efficient geometric algorithms are given to reconcile two or more of these criteria simultaneously, under three formulations of multi-criteria optimization. This reconciliation finds a build direction which: optimizes the criteria sequentially; optimizes their weighted sum; or allows the criteria to meet designer-prescribed thresholds. While the algorithms involving `support volume' or `contact area' apply only to convex models, the solutions for `surface finish' and `number of layers' are applicable to any polyhedral model.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 19-28 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
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| State | Published - 1998 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1998 14th Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry - Minneapolis, MN, USA Duration: Jun 7 1998 → Jun 10 1998 |
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| Other | Proceedings of the 1998 14th Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry |
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| City | Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| Period | 6/7/98 → 6/10/98 |
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