公开(公告)号：JP2000000893A

公开(公告)日：2000-01-07

申请号：JP16677199

申请日：1999-06-14

Applicant: 3D SYSTEMS INC ,  3 D SYSTEMS INC

Inventor： HULL CHARLES WILLIAM ,  LEWIS CHARLES WILLIAM ,  FREED RAYMOND SAMUEL ,  SPENCE STUART THOMAS ,  VINSON WAYNE ALLAN ,  SMALLEY DENNIS ROLLETTE ,  HULL CHARLES W ,  SPENCE STUART T ,  LEWIS CHARLES W ,  VINSON WAYNE B ,  WAYNE S FRED ,  SMALLEY DENNIS R

IPC: B29C35/08 ,  B29C67/00 ,  B29K105/24 ,  B44B1/00 ,  G03F7/00 ,  G03F7/20 ,  G06F17/50

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform the automatic designing economically with rapidity and high reliability by providing a step to partially change stored sets of data for defining the solid part of the shape of an object and coverting the solid part into a part consisting of a region where it is cured or a region where it is maintained in an uncured state according to each of exposure levels. SOLUTION: When a design displayed on the output image screen of a computer is satisfactory, parts are manufactured and when the design needs to be corrected, a change is repeatedly made through the computer. In this case, a pattern for stimulating each of many superposed thin layers 30a, 30b, 30c of a transferable fluid medium 22 is changed partially in a data processing step 25. Further, alteration data for converting the solid part to the part comprising a region where it is cured according to a first exposure level and a region where it is cured according to a second lower exposure level or a region where it is maintained in an uncured state while each of the thin layers 30a, 30b, 30c is initially formed, is created.