Abstract— Integration of Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing process in important for any firm during its business operations. An important aspect in this step is modelling of the part using manufacturing features. These features explicitly capture manufacturing attributes. This process is implemented in many of the CAM software for conventional manufacturing processes. But when it comes to special processes like 3D printing, this philosophy has not been implemented. The way the code is generated for 3D printing is quite different when compared to conventional manufacturing. Slicing is used for generating the code during 3D Printing. The generated part model is exported to stl file and this stl file is then sliced along z-direction to facilitate code generation. The current work investigates into use of feature based modelling to simplify slicing techniques. Based on the modelling, a z-buffer of loops is generated. This z-buffer is modified each time a feature is added to a part. This z-buffer is then used to generate the code. This process helps in quicker modification of code by eliminating the need of exporting and slicing each time. This helps integrating the 3D printing module into any CAD software thus eliminating the slicing procedure partially. This also helps in controlling the errors and tolerances in the part generated by 3D Printing. As a part of implementing this principle, AutoCAD customized using VB.NET.
Keywords— 3D Printing, Feature Based Modeling, Automatic code generation, Z-Buffer, CAD.
Click here to Download Full Paper
AD Publications is a rapidly growing academic publisher in the fields of Engineering, Medical-Health, Environmental Science and Agriculture Research. AD Publications is a registered organization broad-based open access and publishes most exciting researches with respect to the subjects of our journals. The Journals is being indexed and abstracted by all major global current awareness and alerting services.
The organization aims at undertaking, co- coordinating and promoting research and development. It provides professional and academic guidance in the field of basic education, Higher Education as well in the Technical Education. Our Aims is to Promote and support, High Quality basic, Scientific Research and development in fields of Engineering, Medical-Health, Environmental Science and Agriculture Research and to Generate Public awareness, provide advice to scholar’s researchers and communicate research outcomes.
Some Important Links About Research Journal
International Journal
Agriculture Journal
Medical Journal
Environmental Journal
Engineering Journal