The converse slice process to produce the support automatically
Kaiyong Jiang · Machinery Design and Manufacture · 2003
This article firstly analyzes the influence of support on the part and the manufacturing process and tries to avoid or reduce the support through optimizing the slice direction. When the support is necessary after optimizing, this paper presents a new method on the basis of the geometry dependence between the support and part. That is a converse slice process which can produce the support CLI document automatically. This method slices the part from the top of the chosen direction to the bottom or reads the part CLI document from the last slice to the first. In the process of slicing or reading, the necessary support CLI document will be produced quickly and accurately. In addition, another method is presented which can determine if the support is necessary by the way of contour offset.