Thickening a Polygon Mesh for Rapid Prototyping (3D Printing)
Thickening a Polygon Mesh for Rapid Prototyping (3D Printing)
Most shapes can now be rendered physically via 3D CAD/CAM, but the output of most 3D parametric surface plots is not buildable by 3D printers in the original raw form. This Demonstration shows the operations for generating surfaces parallel to the parametric surface, then identifying the polygon edges at the open boundary of the surface and stitching the front and reverse surface copies together with a row of polygons to form a closed polyhedral surface. The result may be exported for 3D printing.