Title
Cost-effective printing of 3D objects with skin-frame structures
Abstract
3D printers have become popular in recent years and enable fabrication of custom objects for home users. However, the cost of the material used in printing remains high. In this paper, we present an automatic solution to design a skin-frame structure for the purpose of reducing the material cost in printing a given 3D object. The frame structure is designed by an optimization scheme which significantly reduces material volume and is guaranteed to be physically stable, geometrically approximate, and printable. Furthermore, the number of struts is minimized by solving an l0 sparsity optimization. We formulate it as a multi-objective programming problem and an iterative extension of the preemptive algorithm is developed to find a compromise solution. We demonstrate the applicability and practicability of our solution by printing various objects using both powder-type and extrusion-type 3D printers. Our method is shown to be more cost-effective than previous works.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2508363.2508382
ACM Trans. Graph.
Keywords
Field
DocType
material volume,home user,skin-frame structure,cost-effective printing,custom object,compromise solution,material cost,automatic solution,frame structure,optimization scheme,l0 sparsity optimization
Computer vision,Engineering drawing,3D printing,Artificial intelligence,Fabrication,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
6
0730-0301
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
87
3.53
11
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weiming Wang127628.27
Tuanfeng Y. Wang21145.91
Zhouwang Yang336124.64
Ligang Liu41960108.77
Xin Tong52119127.72
Wei-hua Tong618611.10
jiansong deng745838.59
Falai Chen840332.47
XiuPing Liu91127.97