Information processing apparatus, medium, information processing method, and modeling system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorReiji YUKUMOTO
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus for providing data for modeling to an additive manufacturing apparatus that models a modeling object by repeatedly stacking layers of material is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a volume calculation unit configured to calculate a volume of the modeling target and a support-part-modeling-method determination unit configured to determine a modeling method of a support part that supports the modeling target according to the volume.
Claims11
An information processing apparatus that provides data for modeling to an additive manufacturing apparatus that models a modeling object by repeatedly stacking layers of a material, the information processing apparatus comprising:
- a volume calculation unit configured to, by using data related to a shape of a modeling target, calculate a volume of the modeling target;
- and
- a support part modeling method determination unit configured to determine a modeling method of a support part that supports the modeling target according to the volume.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium including a program that causes an information processing apparatus that provides data for modeling to an additive manufacturing apparatus that models a modeling object by repeatedly stacking layers of a material to perform functions comprising:
- a volume calculation unit configured to, by using data related to a shape of a modeling target, calculate a volume of the modeling target;
- and
- a support part modeling method determination unit configured to determine a modeling method of a support part that supports the modeling target according to the volume.
An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus that provides data for modeling to an additive manufacturing apparatus that models a modeling object by repeatedly stacking layers of a material, the information processing method comprising:
- calculating, by a volume calculation unit, by using data related to a shape of a modeling target, a volume of the modeling target;
- and
- determining, by a support part modeling method determination unit, a modeling method of a support part that supports the modeling target according to the volume.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.