Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering (한국정밀공학회지)

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Surface Reconstruction for Cutting Path Generation on VLM-Slicer

VLM-Slicer에서 절단 경로 생성을 위한 측면 형상 복원

  • Lee, Sang-Ho (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • An, Dong-Gyu (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Yang, Dong-Yeol (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • 이상호 (한국과학기술원 기계공학과) ;
  • 안동규 (한국과학기술원 기계공학과) ;
  • 양동열 (한국과학기술원 기계공학과)
  • Published : 2002.07.01
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Abstract

A new rapid prototyping process, Variable Lamination Manufacturing using a 4-axis-controlled hotwire cutter and expandable polystyrene foam sheet as a laminating material of the part (VLM-S), has been developed to reduce building time and to improve the surface finish of parts. The objective of this study is to reconstruct the surface of the original 3D CAD model in order to generate mid-slice data using the advancing front technique. The generation of 3D layers by a 4 axis-controlled hot-wire cutter requires a completely different procedure to generate toolpath data unlike the conventional RP CAD systems. The cutting path data for VLM-S are created by VLM-Slicer, which is a special CAD/CAM software with automatic generation of 3D toolpath. For the conventional sheet type system like LOM, the STL file would be sliced into 2D data only. However, because of using the thick layers and a sloping edge with the firstorder approximation between the top and bottom layers, VLM-Slicer requires surface reconstruction, mid-slice, and the toolpath data generation as well as 2D slicing. Surface reconstruction demands the connection between the two neighboring cross-sectional contours using the triangular facets. VLM-S employs thick layers with finite thickness, so that surface reconstruction is necessary to obtain a sloping angle of a side surface and the point data at a half of the sheet thickness. In the process of the toolpath data generation the surface reconstruction algorithm is expected to minimize the error between the ruled surface and the original parts..

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