System and method of printing a colored three-dimensional object
AssigneeStratasys, Inc.
InventorsShai Waisel, Yosef Meller
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Abstract
Systems and methods of printing a colored 3D object, including: receiving an original 3D digital model of a colored 3D object comprising data relating to the geometry and to the color of the 3D object, receiving a printing resolution information relating to a 3D printing device connected to the processor, reducing the amount of data of the original 3D digital model in accordance with the printing resolution of the printing device, a geometric variation threshold and a color variation threshold, thereby generating an approximated 3D digital model of the colored 3D object, and printing the 3D object on the 3D printing device based on the approximated 3D digital model.
Claims20
A method of printing a colored 3D object, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a processor, an original 3D digital model of a colored 3D object comprising data relating to the geometry and to the color of the 3D object;
- receiving, by the processor, a printing resolution information relating to a 3D printing device connected to the processor;
- reducing, by the processor, the amount of data of the original 3D digital model in accordance with the printing resolution of the printing device, a geometric variation threshold and a color variation threshold, thereby generating an approximated 3D digital model of the colored 3D object;
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- printing the 3D object on the 3D printing device based on the approximated 3D digital model.
A system for printing a colored 3D object, the system comprising:
- a 3D printing device, comprising a printing resolution;
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- a processor, in communication with the 3D printing device, wherein the processor is configured to:
- receive an original 3D digital model of a colored 3D object comprising data relating to the geometry and to the color of the 3D object;
- receive a printing resolution information relating to the 3D printing device;
- reduce the amount of data of the original 3D digital model in accordance with the printing resolution of the printing device, a geometric variation threshold and a color variation threshold, thereby generating an approximated 3D digital model of the colored 3D object;
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- issue a command to the 3D printing device to print the 3D object based on the approximated 3D digital model.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.