HEAT-AWARE TOOLPATH GENERATION FOR 3D PRINTING OF PHYSICAL PARTS

摘要

A computing system (100) may include an access engine (108) and a heat-aware toolpath engine (110). The access engine (108) may be configured to access (702) a slice (230) of a 3-dimensional (3D) computer-aided design (CAD) object (210), wherein the 3D CAD object (210) represents a physical part and wherein the slice (230) represents a physical layer for 3D printing of the physical part. The heat-aware toolpath engine (110) may be configured to generate a layer toolpath (260) to control the 3D printing of the physical layer, including by partitioning the slice (230) into zones (251) and determining a zone order, based on a heat-aware criterion, for the layer toolpath (260) to traverse for the 3D printing of the physical layer. The heat-aware toolpath engine (110) may also be configured to provide the layer toolpath (260) to support the 3D printing of the physical part.