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This research focuses on the process planning stage of rapid prototyping (RP) models in order to reduce material wastage in the actual prototype building process. Meshes which are redundant will translate to more material usage in the actual physical prototype. Eliminating the unnecessary meshes prior to the actual process will reduce material usage since a cleaned model generally has less unwanted features in the prototype compared to the one from the raw model. This paper will introduce an algorithm focusing on mesh filtering by percentage sizing in order to generate cleaned models as output and hence eliminate waste in the RP process by volumetric measurement, and the percentage of reduction in materials is calculated based on ABS plastics material which typically is used in rapid prototyping.
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Abbreviations
- A :
-
Area
- g:
-
Gram
- M :
-
Mesh
- mm:
-
Millimeter
- P n :
-
Patches
- V :
-
Vertices
- 3D:
-
3-dimensions
- ABS:
-
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
- CAD:
-
Computer aided design
- NaN:
-
Not a number
- RE:
-
Reverse engineering
- RP:
-
Rapid prototyping
- STL:
-
StereoLithography
- STEP:
-
Standard for the Exchange of Product model data
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This research is supported by Universiti Sains Malaysia under the Research University Grant (No: 814247). The first author also would like to thank the tuition fee sponsorship of My Master by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia.
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Abdulqawi, N.I.A., Abu Mansor, M.S. (2018). Mesh Filtering Algorithm for Virtualisation of Rapid Prototype Models Based on Digitised Data. In: Öchsner, A. (eds) Engineering Applications for New Materials and Technologies . Advanced Structured Materials, vol 85. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72697-7_17
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