Self-supporting rhombic infill structures for additive manufacturing

• Published in: Computer aided design Vol. 80; pp. 32 - 42
• Main Authors: Wu, Jun, Wang, Charlie C.L., Zhang, Xiaoting, Westermann, Rüdiger
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2016
• Subjects: Additive manufacturing; Geometric algorithm; Infill; Optimization; Self-supporting; Geometric algorithm; Self-supporting; Additive manufacturing; Optimization; Infill

Recent work has demonstrated that the interior material layout of a 3D model can be designed to make a fabricated replica satisfy application-specific demands on its physical properties, such as resistance to external loads. A widely used practice to fabricate such models is by layer-based additive...