Abstract:
In coloration of a shaped article composed of a curable resin, the addition operation can be reliably conducted and a reliable coloration effect can be obtained in both the single-color addition and in the multicolor addition. A liquid-phase, non-colored photo-curable resin is cured by irradiation with laser light and a lowermost layer 5n is formed. A liquid-phase, photo-curable resin is applied on the upper surface thereof and a colored layer 5n-1 comprising a cured non-colored region and a liquid-phase pool region is formed. A color ink is drop-wise added to the liquid-phase pool region. The pool region is irradiated with laser light and cured to the same hardness as that of the non-colored region. A block-like coating film having the prescribed thickness if formed from the surface coating film produced by the color ink covering the pool region. As a result, the formation of the next layer (colored layer 5n-2) on the upper surface of colored layer 5n-1 can be conducted without obstacles. Colored layer 5n-2 through colored layer 53 are formed by repeating this process, a colored layer 52 is formed on the upper surface of colored layer 53, and then the uppermost layer 51 is formed on the colored layer 52.
Abstract:
A boundary data inside/outside judgment method includes an external data input step (A) of inputting external data (12) consisting of boundary data of an object (1), a cell division step (B) of dividing the external data into rectangular solid cells (13) in which the boundary planes intersect orthogonally, a cell classification step (C) of classifying the divided cells into a boundary cell (13a) including boundary data and a non-boundary cell (13b) not including boundary data, and a spatial division step (D) of dividing the non-boundary cell (13b) into a plurality of spaces partitioned by the boundary ell (13a).
Abstract:
A method comprises A: dividing an original curved surface (S) into at most six curved-surface units by combinations of signs (+, 0, -) of the principal curvature (k1, k2) at points on the original curved surface (S), B: dividing a changed curved surface (S') into curved-surface units having the same boundaries in such a way as to correspond to the original curved surface (S), C: finding average normal vectors of the curved-surface units of the original and changed curved surfaces, D: finding the "warp" components and "twist" components of all the combinations of pairs of different curved-surface units of the original and changed curved surfaces, and E: finding the differences between the "warp" and "twist" components of the combinations of the original curved surface and those of the combinations of the changed curved surface. Thus the overall shapes and errors of the original and changed curved surfaces after forming such as CAD data are readily and objectively compared, and the overall shape of a free curved surface is evaluated without being influenced by local "wrinkles" and "cavities". The numerical calculation of this method is easy, and the method is hardly influenced by numerical error and measurement error and applicable even to parametric curved surface and point group.
Abstract:
V-CAD data is prepared by dividing external data 12 consisting of boundary data of an object into rectangular parallelepiped cells 13 having boundary planes orthogonal to each other in accordance with octree division and separating the respective divided cells into internal cells 13a positioned on the inner side of the object and boundary cells 13b including a boundary face, and a modeling unit quantity of a prototyping material 7 is changed in accordance with sizes of the internal cell 13a and the boundary cell 13b of a modeling portion. The prototyping material 7 is a resin, lumber powder, a low-fusing-point metal, metal powder, ceramics powder or a mixture of a binder and one of these materials, and its modeling unit quantity is set in such a manner that the modeling unit quantity is smaller than a capacity of a corresponding cell and does not protrude from the boundary plane of the cell. As a result, by using the V-CAD data, a program for rapid prototyping can be simplified, and a model production time can be greatly reduced.
Abstract:
The principal curvatures in the corresponding positions of an object curved surface S' and a reference curved surface S are determined and the respective regions are classified into the following three categories in accordance with the difference between the principal curvatures; i.e. (a) regions where both of the principal curvatures increase, (b) regions where both of the principal curvatures decrease, and (c) regions where one principal curvature increases while the other decreases. The regions (a), (b) and (c) are judged to be mount, valleys and twists respectively and are displayed by different symbols or colors on a display screen. Thus it has become possible to recognize the different regions of the two three-dimensional shapes properly, to find the causes of errors such as partial bend, to express the extent of agreement between the two shapes by objective numerical values, and to discriminate shape errors even if the reference shape is complicated.