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Chopper: Partitioning models into 3D-printable parts

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
dc.contributor Matusik, Wojciech
dc.creator Luo, Linjie
dc.creator Baran, Ilya
dc.creator Rusinkiewicz, Szymon
dc.creator Matusik, Wojciech
dc.date 2014-09-26T14:36:01Z
dc.date 2014-09-26T14:36:01Z
dc.date 2012-11
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:04:33Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:04:33Z
dc.identifier 07300301
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90389
dc.identifier Linjie Luo, Ilya Baran, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, and Wojciech Matusik. 2012. Chopper: partitioning models into 3D-printable parts. ACM Trans. Graph. 31, 6, Article 129 (November 2012), 9 pages.
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0212-5643
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278650
dc.description 3D printing technology is rapidly maturing and becoming ubiquitous. One of the remaining obstacles to wide-scale adoption is that the object to be printed must fit into the working volume of the 3D printer. We propose a framework, called Chopper, to decompose a large 3D object into smaller parts so that each part fits into the printing volume. These parts can then be assembled to form the original object. We formulate a number of desirable criteria for the partition, including assemblability, having few components, unobtrusiveness of the seams, and structural soundness. Chopper optimizes these criteria and generates a partition either automatically or with user guidance. Our prototype outputs the final decomposed parts with customized connectors on the interfaces. We demonstrate the effectiveness of Chopper on a variety of non-trivial real-world objects.
dc.description National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant CCF-1012147)
dc.description National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant IIS-1116296)
dc.description Intel Corporation (Science and Technology Center for Visual Computing)
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en_US
dc.publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2366145.2366148
dc.relation ACM Transactions on Graphics
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.source Other univ. web domain
dc.title Chopper: Partitioning models into 3D-printable parts
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper


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