From: Ismo Mäkelä (ismo.makela@deskartes.fi)
Date: Thu Mar 17 2005 - 14:52:46 EET
Dear Mr. Kumar,
DeskArtes 3Data Expert software for RP data preparation can slice
surface models directly. The possible slice output formats are CLI, SLI,
SSL and SLC. If this is interesting, you can download an evaluation from
www.deskartes.fi.
Best regards,
Ismo Mäkelä
DeskArtes Oy
Markus Hitter wrote:
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> Am 15.03.2005 um 07:21 schrieb M.Senthil Kumar:
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>> I am doing the research on Direct slicing of solid models. As per my
>> observations,the literature says there is no format available in the
>> RP machine's software to access the direct sliced data.
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> Well, there are a lot of different RP machines coming with a lot of
> different software. When experimenting with an SLA250 and it's older
> DOS-based software you could read the sliced data as well as building
> with modified slices. You could import CLI data as well.
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> For example, <http://www.wtec.org/loyola/rp/08_05.htm> has a chapter
> about 2D slice data formats.
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>> Could anyone in the group tell me the suggestions for this interface
>> with RP machine without .stl format.
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> Depends on which type of machine you use and why the vendor's slicing
> software isn't perfect for you.
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> I did some experiments with slicing inside CATIA but besides a lot of
> hand-work and hours of processing time there wasn't much to win. In
> theory, one could do things like adaptive slicing and win vertical
> accuracy but then it's a lot easier to build a machine capable of
> building thinner layers.
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> Hope that helps,
> Markus
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