US 2019/0168499 A1Published application

Slicing method for 3d colored object, updating method for slicing data, and printing system for using the same

AssigneesXYZprinting, Inc., Kinpo Electronics, Inc.

InventorsHsin-Ta HSIEH, Ko-Wei SHIH

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Abstract

A processor imports a 3D object, performs a 3D route slicing on the 3D object for generating printing routes respectively corresponding to printing layers of the 3D object, and performs a 2D image slicing on the 3D object for generating image files corresponding to each printing layer. The processor stores one printing route of one printing layer into a route file; stores a jetting command of the image files of the same printing layer into the route file; and stores a jetting route of the same printing layer into the route file. The processor, according to a slicing order of the multiple printing layers, stores the printing route, the jetting command, and the jetting route of each printing layer respectively into the route file, so as to complete record the route file and then outputs the route file and the multiple image files.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A slicing method for three-dimensional (3D) colored object, the slicing method comprising:

a) importing a 3D file (9) through a processor, the 3D file (9) storing a 3D object;
b) the processor performing a 3D route slicing for the 3D object to generate a plurality of printing routes (51) corresponding to a plurality of printing layers;
c) the processor performing a 2D image slicing for the 3D object to generate a plurality of image files (6) corresponding to the plurality of printing layers, where each of the printing layers is corresponding to one or more image files (6);
d) the processor storing the printing route (51) of one of the printing layers in a route file (5);
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e) after the step d), the processor storing a jetting command (52) for one or more image files (6) of the one of the printing layers in the route file (5), and storing a jetting route (53) of the one of the printing layers in the route file (5).

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Facts

Application: 15/922,368Filed 15 Mar 2018
Priority: CN 201711275815.06 Dec 2017
Published: 6 Jun 2019
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Classification16 codes

G06T 19/20
Manipulating three-dimensional [3D] models or images for computer graphics: editing of three-dimensional [3D] images, e.g. changing shapes or…
B29C 41/36
Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations: feeding the material on to the mould, core or other substrate
B29C 64/112
Using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material: using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
B29C 64/386
Auxiliary operations or equipment: data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing

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