THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOLDING APPARATUS, PRODUCTION METHOD OF MOLDED PRODUCT AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: MIYAMORI SHINYA, TASHIRO YOSUKE, SAKAMOTO MASAOMI, OGASAWARA FUMIHIKO, INOUE TETSUHIRO, YASUI OSAMU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 30.11.2017
• Subjects: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY; ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OFTHREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVEAGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING,STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; TRANSPORTING; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a three-dimensional generation apparatus, a three-dimensional molding apparatus, a production method of a molded product and a program, which can reduce a material cost necessary for molding when compared with a technology in which data for changing cross-sectional shape data are not changed.SOLUTION: A data generation apparatus 100 includes: a material cost calculating part 116 for calculating the material cost of a molding material for molding a molded product 900 defined by three-dimensional data; a cross-sectional shape data generation part 112 for generating cross-sectional shape data divided into a plurality of continuous layers in a predetermined direction from the three-dimensional data; a low reduction indication part 122 for indicating a low reduction amount of the molding material used for molding so as to reduce the material cost calculated by a material cost calculating part 116; and a data change part 124 for changing the cross-sectional shape data generated by the cross-sectional shape data generation part 112 based on the indication of the low reduction indication part 122.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4 【課題】断面形状データを変更するデータ変更しない技術と比較して、造形に要する材料費を低減することができる３次元データ生成装置、３次元造形装置、造形物の製造方法及びプログラムを提供する。【解決手段】データ生成装置１００は、３次元データが規定する造形物９００を造形するための造形材料の材料費を算出する材料費算出部１１６と、３次元データから所定の方向に連続する複数の層に分割した断面形状データを生成する断面形状データ生成部１１２と、材料費算出部１１６が算出した材料費を低減させるように、造形に用いる造形材料の低減量を指示する低減量指示部１２２と、低減量指示部１２２の指示に基づいて断面形状データ生成部１１２が生成した断面形状データを変更するデータ変更部１２４とを有する【選択図】図４