Migration of Conventional Model Transfer Format on Additive Manufacturing

DOI

10.2991/icmea-16.2016.20How to use a DOI?

Keywords

STL; data reduction; data migration; additive manufacturing

Abstract

The STL (Standard Transform Language) file format has been the industry standard for Additive Manufacturing (AM) communities for last two decades. It falls short with the rapid development of AM related hardware and materials technologies. Kinds of alternatives to STL have been proposed. However, Massive 3D models are still described using STL file format. It is necessary to migrate STL files to an alternative format. In this paper, a redundancy vertex removal algorithm is first proposed to achieve a constant time in data reduction. A simple and friendly-to-operations AM file format is then proposed to exchange data between CAD models and the AM process, its performance of data migration is evaluated and 3D printing experiment is carried out to validate the feasibility of the data migration.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Deng-Hui ZHANG
AU  - Zheng-xu ZHAO
AU  - Yi-qi ZHOU
AU  - Yang GUO
PY  - 2016/12
DA  - 2016/12
TI  - Migration of Conventional Model Transfer Format on Additive Manufacturing
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Material Engineering and Application (ICMEA 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 125
EP  - 130
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmea-16.2016.20
DO  - 10.2991/icmea-16.2016.20
ID  - ZHANG2016/12
ER  -