Congratulations Dr. Ikonen,
I only took a quick look at your part packer paper but the idea has
obvious benefits to the rp community. I think the time spent orienting
parts for a build goes up by the square of the number of parts. This is
not much of a problem on the SLA's since parts are really layed out in a
2-D pattern but on the DTM's and similar machines one could spend hours
filling a build. One concern I have though is individual part
orientation. This is quite critical to part quality, especially in the
DTM's. Keep us all posted!
Michael W Miller (Mike.Miller3@PSS.Boeing.com)
The Boeing Company MS 17-PE B-XT62
Propulsion Experimental Hardware 206-655-3289
Rapid Prototyping 655-4366 Lab 655-4365
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> From: Ilkka Tapio
> Ikonen[SMTP:itikon01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 1998 7:52 PM
> To: rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi
> Subject: Packing algorithm for RP
>
> I have finished my Ph.D. dissertation research about a genetic
> algorithm based part
> packer for a SLS machine.
>
> Some of published papers and sample results can be seen at:
> http://www.spd.louisville.edu/~itikon01/
>
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