Part orientation is one of the important factors in manufacturing with three dimensional printing (3DP) of rapid prototyping system. The minimum building time, being achieved by the part’s minimum building height and...Part orientation is one of the important factors in manufacturing with three dimensional printing (3DP) of rapid prototyping system. The minimum building time, being achieved by the part’s minimum building height and minimum width in 3DP’s y direction, is set as the objective of optimizing the part orientation. Genetic algorithm is adopted to find the minimum building height of parts and then ergodic searching is used to get the minimum width of part in y direction. A corresponding program for optimizing part orientation in 3DP was developed. Tests show the proposed approach is effective and fast.展开更多
基金the Natural Science Foundation Hubei Province, China (2005ABA181)
文摘Part orientation is one of the important factors in manufacturing with three dimensional printing (3DP) of rapid prototyping system. The minimum building time, being achieved by the part’s minimum building height and minimum width in 3DP’s y direction, is set as the objective of optimizing the part orientation. Genetic algorithm is adopted to find the minimum building height of parts and then ergodic searching is used to get the minimum width of part in y direction. A corresponding program for optimizing part orientation in 3DP was developed. Tests show the proposed approach is effective and fast.
