| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2021 Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (SFF Symp 2021)
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| Symposium
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Modeling
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| Presentation Title |
A Roadmap Towards Parallel Printing for Desktop 3D Printers
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| Author(s) |
Chandrakana Nandi, Molly Aubrey Carton, Adam Anderson, Haisen Zhao, Eva Darulova, Adriana Schulz, Dan Grossman, Zachary Tatlock |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Chandrakana Nandi |
| Abstract Scope |
3D printers with multiple extruders (or multi-head printers) are common in the desktop fabrication community. These printers are primarily used for multi-color and multi-material printing. Most of them do not exploit the multi-headedness to parallelize the printing process and lower the printing time.
This work presents a simple toolpath algorithm that generates parallel infill for fixed-width dual-extruder printers given the 3D mesh of a model. We have implemented a prototype of the algorithm, and developed both hardware and firmware extensions to support parallel 3D printing on a specific dual-extruder printer. We present an early evaluation comparing the printing times of sequential toolpath and the parallel toolpath generated by our algorithm on several models. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Definite: Post-meeting proceedings |